Before Covid 19, I spent 3 years drawing and painting many of the ancient Neolithic standing stones across South Wales in the company of pre-historian Dewi Bowen and filmmaker Melvyn Williams. Dewi was working on his latest book about The Boar Hunt from the Mabinogion, which was put on hold during the pandemic, but withContinue reading “The Book Is On It’s Way…”
Tag Archives: Melvyn Williams
Art In A War Zone
Swansea Print Workshop is hosting an important new digital exhibition of extraordinary drawings and illustrations by artists under siege in The Ukraine. Below from left to right: Daria Filipova “24 02”: Grasya Oliyko “HOME”: Mari Kinovych “REFUGEE”: Illia Uhnivenko “NEW CHILDHOOD”. The PICTORIC group of artists reached out to international friends and colleagues asking forContinue reading “Art In A War Zone”
Papercut Screen Stencils
Inspired By Sarah Hopkins. Today was Day 1 of Sarah Hopkins’ two-day course in paper stencil screenprint technique that I’ve got a place on. I’m using a photograph (by Melvyn Williams) from my recent Waun Wen artist residency as the basis of the image, but as I develop the layers of colour it will probablyContinue reading “Papercut Screen Stencils”
Suffering For My Art!
I had a fab evening out last week, up The Workers, a lovely gallery in the village of Ynyshir in the Rhondda Valley. On the first Thursday of each month, they host an evening of Words, Arts and Music (WAM) and I was part of it this month. I did a talk about myContinue reading “Suffering For My Art!”
A Snippet
I posted a tiny bit of some work I started yesterday and today I took it a stage further. Here’s a little snippet of it but it’s secret at the moment so I can’t say anymore. Meanwhile, tomorrow …….
Sshhh!!!!
I’ve been working flat out on something secret. That’s all I can say but I’ll let you see a tiny snippet of one of my working drawings. This work won’t come to fruition for another year or so and I’m so excited about it. Watch this space……. But in the meanwhile, coming up veryContinue reading “Sshhh!!!!”
Two Birds With One Stone
I managed to kill two birds with one stone this evening, simultaneously doing a sketch for tonight’s blog and reaching Number 94 out of my target of drawing 100 Baby Boomers. Husb and I went to Swansea Storytelling Club and I scribbled while listening to artist and performer David Pitt. David and I haveContinue reading “Two Birds With One Stone”
Mahoosive Manhole
Some manholes are much bigger than others, big enough to get a man down a hole. Here’s one printed by The Plebeian Printmakers the other weekend at the Gwyl Troublemakers Festival. You can get an idea of it’s size by looking at my ridiculous Bagpuss slippers at the bottom. And coming soon toContinue reading “Mahoosive Manhole”
Medieval Manhole
Some manholes are not manholes at all. They’re too small to get a man down. While I was doing some public printmaking with The Plebeian Printmakers a couple of weekends ago, we saw all sorts of manhole covers, big and small and this lovely one was one of the smallest. We were puzzled by itContinue reading “Medieval Manhole”
Mediocre Manhole
Manholes can be quite fancy but some are no-frills and this is one of them. But I like the typography. It’s done in metal. That’s the British Kite Mark on the bottom. I used a blue non-toxic water-based printing ink by Seawhites of Brighton, very economical. No time to rest ….. this is coming upContinue reading “Mediocre Manhole”
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