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List Of Welsh Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Wales or whose artworks, or careers, are closely associated with Wales. A *Sadie Allen (1930–2017), painter, textile artist * Edith Lovell Andrews (1886–1980), painter * Manon Awst (born 1983), sculptor, performance artist B *Irene Bache (1901–1999) London-born artist who lived in Swansea from 1942 * Joan Baker (1922–2017), painter C * Brenda Chamberlain (1912–1971), Welsh artist, poet and novelist, working in Wales and Greece * Felicity Charlton (1913–2009), Bristol-born artist who lived in Wales from 1939 *Melanie Counsell (born 1964), installation artist and sculptor. *Glenys Cour (born 1924), painter and stained glass artist D *Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn (1834–1926), photographer *Edith Downing (1857–1931), sculptor E * Mildred Eldridge (1909–1991), artist born in London who lived in Wales from 1939 F *Laura Ford (born 1961), sculptor born in Cardiff G *Valerie Ganz (1936–2015), painter * Esther Grainger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sadie Allen
Sarah Margaret Allen (1930–7 January 2017) was a Welsh people, Welsh artist known for her textile and embroidery work which included a number of public commissions. Biography Sadie Allen was born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales in 1930. She studied at the Cardiff School of Art where she completed qualifications in book illustration and also received her art teachers diploma. She met her future husband Colin Gard Allen (1926-1987) while studying at the Art school. After graduation Allen taught at several schools in Hampshire and the north of England. For ten years she was a senior lecturer in Art and Education at Newcastle Polytechnic and also served as an examiner in Creative Studies for the City and Guilds of London Institute, City & Guilds Board. As an artist Allen worked in paint, textiles and embroidery. She regularly exhibited at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in the 1960s and also with the Society of Education through Art. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gwenny Griffiths
Rosa Gwenny Griffiths (25 June 1867 – 22 December 1953) was a Welsh artist known for her portrait and flower paintings. Biography Griffiths was born in the Druslyn area of Swansea in south Wales and attended Swansea Art School before studying at the Slade School of Art in London where she was taught by Alphonse Legros. After graduating from the Slade, Griffiths then studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi. She first exhibited in London in 1892 with the Society of British Artists, showing a painting titled ''Madame Chrysantheme'', and then regularly at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. On occasion she showed works in Budapest at the Salon Nemzeti and in 1914 had works shown at the Paris Salon. Griffiths was a member of the Women's International Art Club and during 1906 and 1907 served as the club's honorary secretary. She had a solo exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea in 1922. Griffiths painted a number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Eveline Annie Jenkins
Eveline Annie Jenkins (July 1893 – 1976) was a British botanical artist and illustrator. Biography Jenkins was born in Monmouthshire, one of the three children of the civil servant William Herbert Jenkins and Eveline Jenkins. She was educated at Newport Girls High School and studied for a B.Sc. at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, while studying art in her own time. Jenkins took lessons at the Aberystwyth Art School during 1912 and 1913 and, in 1916, spent six weeks at the Stanhope Forbes school in Newlyn. In 1913, she won first prize at the National Eisteddfod for her design for a public fountain. After she graduated, Jenkins worked as a teacher for six years, first in Cornwall and then in Wales. In 1927, Jenkins took the post of botanical artist with the National Museum of Wales, and she held that position until 1959. During that time, her illustrations featured in numerous books published by the museum, as well as publications and journals. These included the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bethan Huws
Bethan Huws (born 1961) is a Welsh multi-media artist whose work explores place, identity, and translation, often using architecture and text. Her work has been described as "delicate, unobtrusive interventions into architectural spaces". Life and career Huws was born in Bangor, Wales in 1961. English is her second language, with Welsh being her vernacular. She studied at Middlesex Polytechnic between 1981 and 1985 and at the Royal College of Art, London, between 1986 and 1988. At her graduate show, Huw's presented an empty studio 'having chiselled clean, inch by inch, the entire wooden-floor'. Huws' first major solo exhibition was ''Art Cologne 1989'' at Koelnmesse GmbH in Cologne. Other notable exhibitions include the Anthony Reynolds Gallery (1988), Riverside Studios (1989), Kunsthalle Bern (1990), Luis Campana Gallery (1991), the Venice Biennale (2003) and the Ingleby Gallery (2011).- - In 1991, Huws moved to Paris, France. In 1993, Huws made a film called ''Singing for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
North Wales
North Wales ( ) is a Regions of Wales, region of Wales, encompassing its northernmost areas. It borders mid Wales to the south, England to the east, and the Irish Sea to the north and west. The area is highly mountainous and rural, with Snowdonia, Snowdonia National Park ( and the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley (), known for its mountains, waterfalls and trails, wholly within the region. Its population is concentrated in the North East Wales, north-east and northern coastal areas, with significant Welsh-speaking populations in its North West Wales, western and rural areas. North Wales is imprecisely defined, lacking any exact definition or administrative structure. It is commonly defined administratively as its six most northern Principal areas of Wales, principal areas, but other definitions exist, with Montgomeryshire historically considered to be part of the region. Those from North Wales are sometimes referred to as "Gogs" (); in turn, those from South Wales are sometimes cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties. It borders Bedfordshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south and Buckinghamshire to the west. The largest settlement is Watford, and the county town is Hertford. The county has an area of and had a population of 1,198,800 at the 2021 census. After Watford (131,325), the largest settlements are Hemel Hempstead (95,985), Stevenage (94,470) and the city of St Albans (75,540). For local government purposes Hertfordshire is a non-metropolitan county with ten districts beneath Hertfordshire County Council. Elevations are higher in the north and west, reaching more than in the Chilterns near Tring. The county centres on the headwaters and upper valleys of the rivers Lea and the Colne; both flow south and each is accompanied by a canal. Hertfordshire's undeveloped land is mainly agricultural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Joan Hutt
Joan Villette Hutt (1913–1985) was a British artist who spent most of her career in North Wales. Early life Joan Villette Hutt was born on 16 September 1913 in Aspenden, Hertfordshire, England"Obituary:Mrs J.V. Hutt". ''Caernarfon and Denbigh Herald'', 1 February 1985. Her father, John Hutt MBE, was posted with the Ministry of Food in Malta at that time, but had sent his wife back to England to give birth. Mother and child duly returned to Malta. At the outbreak of the First World War, the whole family returned to the UK. Her father's family, the Hutts, were originally of French Huguenot extraction. Notable ascendants included John Hutt (1746–1794), Royal Navy Flag-captain (buried in Westminster Abbey), John Hutt (1795–1880), Governor of Western Australia from 1839 to 1846, and Sir William Hutt (1801–1882), a British Liberal Politician who was heavily involved in the colonization of New Zealand and Southern Australia. Education Hutt was educated privately and then at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Penarth
Penarth ( , ) is a town and Community (Wales), community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, approximately south of Cardiff city centre on the west shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay. Penarth is a Seaside resort#British seaside resorts, seaside resort in the Cardiff Urban Area, and the second largest town in the Vale of Glamorgan, next only to the administrative centre of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Barry. During the Victorian era Penarth was a highly popular holiday destination, promoted nationally as "The Garden by the Sea" and was packed by visitors from the English Midlands, Midlands and the West Country as well as day trippers from the South Wales valleys, mostly arriving by train. Today, the town, with its traditional seafront, continues to be a regular summer holiday destination (predominantly for older visitors), but their numbers are much lower than was common from Victorian times until the 1960s, when cheap overseas package holidays were intro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Berkshire
Berkshire ( ; abbreviated ), officially the Royal County of Berkshire, is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Oxfordshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the north-east, Greater London to the east, Surrey to the south-east, Hampshire to the south, and Wiltshire to the west. Reading, Berkshire, Reading is the largest settlement and the county town. The county has an area of and a population of 911,403. The population is concentrated in the east, the area closest to Greater London, which includes the county's largest towns: Reading (174,224), Slough (164,793), Bracknell (113,205), and Maidenhead (70,374). The west is rural, and its largest town is Newbury, Berkshire, Newbury (33,841). For local government purposes Berkshire comprises six Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority areas: Bracknell Forest, Borough of Reading, Reading, Borough of Slough, Slough, West Berkshire, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ray Howard-Jones
Rosemary "Ray" Howard-Jones (30 May 1903 – 25 June 1996) was a prolific Welsh painter best known for her impressionistic seascapes and paintings of the coastline of Wales, particularly of the areas around Skomer and Marloes. Early life and education Howard-Jones was born in Lambourn, Berkshire, in 1903. Her father was a vet and racehouse trainer who enlisted in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during World War I. He served on the Western Front (World War I), Western Front rising to the rank of Colonel but died in 1921 from the effects of a war-time gas attack. Both her parents were Welsh and, after they split up, at the age of two Ray Howard-Jones went to live at her grandfather's house in Penarth. Howard-Jones attended St.Hilda's School in Penarth and then the London Garden School. In 1920, aged seventeen, she entered the Slade School of Art in London, graduating four years later with a Fine Art Diploma that included distinctions in painting, wood engraving and design. She w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nichola And Sarah Hope
Nichola Hope and Sarah Hope (born 1975) are Welsh artists. They have produced visual artwork documenting the Welsh National Opera and occasionally paint and draw live. Nichola was shortlisted for Wildlife Artist of the Year 2020, her watercolour Tansy Beetle was awarded the Elizabeth Hosking prize for watercolour. She was awarded the RK Burt Painting Prize and has been selected for Wales Portrait I and II, Welsh Artist of the Year in 2006 and the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art. Sarah was awarded Joint second prize winner of the Llanfairpwll Big Draw and was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize. Collectively they have worked on international projects with Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo Opera, Melbourne Opera, Tasmanian Storytelling Festival and Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival. Together they appeared as Arts Editors for the internationally distributed Celtic Family Magazine and have featured in a number of publications. Both of them use pen, ink, and charcoal in their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Llysfaen
Llysfaen is a village and community in Conwy County Borough overlooking the north coast of Wales, and situated on the hill Mynydd Marian. For local government purposes, it is also a ward. The community includes the Peulwys estate of Old Colwyn. Introduction Llysfaen is located one kilometre (0.6 miles) inland, halfway between the coastal towns of Abergele and Colwyn Bay. Neighbouring villages include Old Colwyn, Llanddulas, Dolwen and Betws-yn-Rhos. To its immediate west is Mynydd Marian, a mountain known for its limestone grassland and the rare dwarf subspecies of the silver-studded blue butterfly, and Craig y Forwyn is to the east. Llysfaen also overlooks the Irish sea, as well as Kinmel Bay, Rhyl, and the Clwydian Range. The council ward, including the village centre and surrounding precincts, occupies 5.11 square kilometres (1,260 acres, 511 hectares). The community's population has remained relatively static in recent times and was 2,652 at the census held in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
