John Knapp Fisher
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When not out combing the hills and cliffs for new landscapes, Gillian is to be found in woodland and gardens working on floral compositions, which she weaves into her landscapes. Gillian's unusual and daring use of colour is her hallmark; her innate feel for the tradition of the countryside and its ancient buildings, the vibrancy of her flowers, and the drama of her skies are the mixture that make for the harmony of her highly collectable originals and limited edition prints.
After studying at a London art college, Gillian developed her love for watercolour in Indonesia where she lived for several years before settling in Wales in 1983. Since then she has concentrated exclusively on this medium and has published over 100 prints in limited editions, many of which are sold out. Her original work is collected mainly in Britain but also in Europe and North America.

Gillian in January 2004 was voted the most popular female UK artist in a survey by The Fine Art Trade Guild and second most popular artist overall. This is an astounding acheivment for a self publishing artist and Gillian is indebted to her many collectors who have been so loyal and supportive in following her development as an artist.

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Cherry Pickles New Exhibition
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CHERRY PICKLES Artist although she lives and works in Pembrokeshire , has travelled extensively, painting landscapes in Greece and other countries as well as other parts of her native Wales.

Handling light and shade skilfully with an instinctive feel for landscape her work is vibrant with singing colour. This is intellectual work yet has an engaging air of spontanneity - we feel the scene with which we are presented has stopped her in her tracks, an impulse of the moment , inspiring her to capture this living landscape.

Early in her career she won the prize for best painting at the Slade and in the same year was awarded the Boise Scholarship to Italy and an Arts Council of Wales travel bursary to Jordan. A year later she obtained second prize in the National Portrait Gallery portrait award and to add to her impressive list of successes she has, on three separate occasions, received a Greek government scholarship for working in that country while in 1993 the Arts Council of Wales awarded her a travel bursary to New York.

In addition to the compelling and superbly colourful records of her travels many of them painted from the vantage point of the window of her camper van she specialises in self portraits. In these, she says , the surface of the mirror is important spatially and philosophically.

Jean Thomas
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JEAN THOMAS Artist inspiration lies in shapes and colours- both of which are to be found in the rocks and cliffs of the Penycwm area in which she grew up. Here there are the magnificently weighty boulders with their reddish hues stemming, she believes, from a copper content, and here too, the bracken that has turned the colour of a fox pelt.
This is a Pembrokeshire she knows intimately and with superb draughtmanship interprets strikingly in all its moods in tones that surprise then delight the unaccustomed eye. We find favourite areas in all seasons, all weathers , and painted from all angles as she continues to seek out new shapes.

Peter Daniels

Peter Daniels Artist died in August 1998, at the peak of his career, he was already internationally renowned for the immense power of his shapes, forms and colours, but the project to fill the walls of Nimbus concert hall at the Wyestone Leys Centre for Performing Arts near Monmouth with his exuberant, fiery paintings was destined to take him to even greater heights.

With only part of the work completed he found himself cruelly crippled, and facing the realisation that he would never paint again. From his wheelchair he set about making plans to ensure the fulfilment of dream by using state of the art computer technology to capture and store the images he had already produced.
Whilst he has been described as an abstract artist he himself considered that his work was very figurative, but focused on an aspect of his subject that people were not used to seeing.

Always he sought to capture 'the moment of seeing before looking begins' translating that simultaneous comprehension of his subject experienced before the analytical eye and brain interfered.

He was an artist of great integrity, whose work moved on over the years, inspired by what he called 'divine dissatisfaction' he constantly stretched and discovered new ways of expressing himself.
The Pembrokeshire landscape changed him, and changed his work, which is filled with the sense of magic and timelessness of a land that has remained the same for thousands of years.

It was an exciting discovery when he found that he was treading a path already taken by his great-great grandfather, journeyman painter William Daniels, whose painting of a local scene (now in the ownership of the National Museum of Wales) was painted from the exact viewpoint chosen by his great-great grandfather.

David Beattie
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David Beattie Artist Printmaker is a working printmaker of over twenty years experience. Working from his studio/gallery in the rural Welsh village of Llandygwydd. David produces a range of finely detailed rural landscape, livestock and market character studies capturing the everyday sights and scenes that make Wales unique. All the works in the gallery are handprinted on the premises using traditional print making methods unchanged in over 400 years.

Bernard Green
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Bernard Green Artist Printmaker was a distinguished painter and print maker whose work showed a remarkable ability to stretch the technique of linocut production to new levels of perception. When be died in February 1998 he left behind him a wonderful legacy of more than 70 images - supremely sensitive linocut prints all of which he had signed, dated and numbered. They also bear the impressit mark after the signature indicating that he alone worked the edition. Bernard was a quiet, retiring but complex man. He was a man who was warm and sensitive with a sensitivity that is revealed in the colour and tone of his prints. Much of his work evokes peace and harmony, rejecting the popular myth that linocuts are essentially crude and sometimes garish

Pembrokeshire where he lived and worked from 1977 inspired much of his work. It was here that he experienced nature that is still the shaping force, where, despite man's incessant drive to urbanise, parts of the coastline remain untouched. In Bernard Green's work we find a man with an extraordinary capacity for interpretation in his chosen medium, something which owed much to his use of light and tone. The idea for a new landscape print was arrived at by sketching at the site of the chosen subject with colour and light carried in this artist's imaginative eye to inspire the working of each colour stage until as many as twelve colours were used to complete a print - prints that in the same way as original paintings are original in their own right. They have been entirely worked and created by the artist.
Bernard Green was chosen by Her Majesty the Queen to portray Caernarvon Castle as a linocut. This exclusive work has been reproduced by British Telecom on the Royal Telemessage for Wales. Bernard Green's work is represented in collections in 19 countries of the world and 29 public collections in the UK. His work has been shown in many galleries and exhibitions, including The Barbican, The Royal Society of Painter Pñntmakers, Anthony Dawson Fine Art, The Society of Wood Engravers, The Royal West of England Academy, The Edingburugh Festival, Royal exchange Theatre Manchester, Abbot Hall Kendal, The Minories Colchester and Wenniger Graphics, Boston, USA.

Graham Hurd-wood Artist is noted particularly for his mastery of the use of washes to create mood and capture the effects of light, colour and space in countryside and seascape.

Always confident - but never strident - in his use of colour, colour infused light pervades both figurative oils and watercolours achieving superb luminosity.

He has painted not only in Pembrokeshire but also in the course of foreign travel which has taken him to areas such as the Caribean enabling him to demonstrate his skill in re- iterpreting with engaging freshness and spontaneity the atmosphere of heat as well as time and place.

After the great storm around the south east of England in 1987 he was commisioned by the National Trust to produce a series of paintings depicting the devastation caused . One of these paintings was selected to be presented to the Prince of Wales. Hurdwood studied for BA Hons degree at Camberwell school of art followed by a Postgraduate course at the Royal Academy Schools


John Piper
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John Piper was born in Epsom in 1903 and studied law before going on to study at Richmond School of Art, Kingston School of Art and the Royal College of Art.
Piper is unquestionably one of the most versatile and important British artists of the twentieth century.
As well as being a highly accomplished painter and printmaker he is also known for his stained glass, ceramic, set and costume designs.
Pipers prints are highly collectable and fiercely fought over in the sale rooms.
In 1979, the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford held a major restrospective of Pipers work as did the Tate in 1982.
John Piper died in 1992.

Andrea Kelland
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Andrea Kelland
Whether painting in oils or watercolours, large or small, Andrea paints with boldness and sensitivity, with strong shapes and rich colours. Her work is almost entirely concerned with the Pembrokeshire coastline : an immense source of material .
Her paintings of land meeting sea have a strong sense of place, of history , and of now. Having selected a subject, she'll strive to retain that landscapes' particular poetry or drama. She'll paint the grand and eroding cliffs, the rocky headlands shaped by the sea's force , rocky pools, caves , wide bays or simply the tideline. Often she'll choose to paint a place where man has made his mark , the harbours and quarries around the coast. The Blue lagoon at Abereiddy is a particular favourite, where the ruins of quarry buildings and the deep green waters have a resonant stillness .
Andrea lives in South Pembrokeshire and is a well-respected & recognised artist in Pembrokeshire .


Other artists showing work at our Gallery in Porthgain include:-

Darren Yeadon-marble sculpture
Sheila Knapp-Fisher-paintings
Tony kitchell-paintings


Below is an extact on art history in Pembrokeshire attributed to the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park


Some of the earliest works of art in Pembrokeshire are the stone crosses at Carew, Penally and Nevern with their intricate Celtic designs. The county’s medieval masterpiece is the 14th century Haroldston Calendar, a beautifully illuminated manuscript depicting Pembrokeshire peasants at work, which is now in the British Museum.

The castles of Pembrokeshire have long attracted the attention of visiting artists, and Samuel and Nathaniel Buck included many of them in their collection of topographical engravings published in 1742. Richard Wilson - the first to paint the great castles of Wales in all their majesty - completed his view of Pembroke town and castle in the 1760s while Paul Sandby produced a series of sepia aquatints depicting the county’s historic ruins, published in 1775.

Watercolour artist John ‘Warwick’ Smith spent some time in Pembrokeshire in the early 1790s, painting the castles and coastline, while J. M. W. Turner visited Pembrokeshire twice, filling two sketchbooks with drawings and watercolours. In 1801 he exhibited his dramatic work ‘Pembroke Castle, Thunderstorm approaching’.

Sir Richard Colt Hoare and Henry Gastineau were among several artists who published engravings of Pembrokeshire scenes in the early 1800s.

By this time the county had produced a noted artist of its own. Thomas George was born in Fishguard in about 1790 and became an accomplished painter of portraits in miniature - often on ivory. His work can be found in the British Museum.

Londoner Charles Norris settled in Tenby in 1810 and produced numerous watercolours and sketches, notably of the medieval buildings of Tenby and St Davids.

Augustus John, who was born in Tenby in 1878, became noted for his bohemian lifestyle. He studied at the Tenby Art School run by Edward Joseph Head and later trained at the Slade. He was the greatest portrait painter of his generation and his portraits in semi-impressionistic style include one of his great friend Dylan Thomas. His sister Gwen also studied at the Slade before moving to Paris. Her delicate paintings are in complete contrast to her brother’s, and many now consider her to be the greater artist.
Nina Hamnett was born in Tenby in 1890 and studied in London and later Paris where her circle included Picasso and Jean Cocteau. A gifted illustrator and portrait painter, she was known as the ‘Queen of Bohemia’ thanks to her uninhibited personality, her taste for alcohol and her habit of dancing naked at parties.

In 1934, Graham Sutherland first visited Pembrokeshire and he subsequently lived and worked in the county for much of his life. In 1972 he donated a collection of his Pembrokeshire landscapes to be displayed at a special gallery at Picton Castle. Sadly, this gallery is now closed and the collection is waiting to find a home.

John Piper (born 1903) became well known for his stained glass windows at Coventry Cathedral. He moved to Pembrokeshire following his marriage and his paintings often show the county’s chapels, cromlechs and cottages.

The Pembrokeshire light and landscape continue to attract artists of the highest calibre. Arthur Giardelli, Ray Howard-Jones, Philip Sutton, David Tress, Friedrich Konekamp, John Knapp-Fisher and Gwilym Prichard are just some of the many highly-regarded painters who have made the county their home in recent years. © Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority 2002



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