There will be few people who do not feel in some way moved, emotionally involved even, when mention is made of The Children’s Crusade. Keith Bayliss has made large woodcut images of the children in progress through the book — as they did through Europe towards Jerusalem. At intervals in the progress the text, in…
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With Roger Moss & William Brown. So here she is, The Venus of Blaengwynfi loosely plundered by the Celtic tribes – even the Romans had their goddesses. Mother, Sister, “female”, the eternal – all these things if you know where to look. From Shelagh ’n Gigh to Rhiannon to Venus herself, the fetish exists. At…
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We are lost, spiritually adrift. We inhabit a world of road side shrines and makeshift memorials. Art provides a scrapbook resource of images removed from our experience, a place of reference but many of us cannot read them. But still they are important. They contain something essential. Keith Bayliss, 2011 Shrines are appearing everywhere.…
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Drawings in ink on paper on the theme of an individual moving through a landscape full of personal trials and tribulations – symbolised by a winged figure, which is both mischievous and cruel. The main character is on occasion, thankfully, able to give as well as receive. In the end some solace is achieved. A…
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These drawings in ink on paper were produced as a second response (the first was many years earlier in 1980 in pencil and gouache), now with Bernard Mitchell, to a translation by Malcolm Parr of Marcel Schwob’s version of The Children’s Crusade. These drawings formed the starting point for prompting the Old Stile Press to…
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A National Waterfront Museum Residency, in partnership with Mission Gallery Swansea It was a great pleasure to be invited by The National Waterfront Museum in association with Mission Gallery, Swansea, to set up a studio alongside the Stanhope Letter Press. I spent the month of February 2013 producing over thirty preliminary drawings in pencil and…
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That is quite a mouthful, Gwyrosydd Biennial Arts, and not easy for the non-Welsh speaker to pronounce. I want to record or set down this project which lasted for six years or more because it was and is for me still a wonderful “model” education project. It’s beginning and final publication was made possible by…
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The Joseph Herman Residency is one worth choosing as a fine example of what can be explored and achieved through a visual art project. This project was one of the early residencies organised by the Joseph Herman Foundation and took place in two schools over several weeks. One in Penrhos Primary School, just above Herman’s…
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Image: Portrait of Tony Goble in his studio by Bernard Mitchell. Somewhere between what we see and what we imagine is the place to be. – Tony Goble. Tony died in 2007. It was an unexpected and tragic event that took a wonderfully able and creative talent from us. There are so many examples of…
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“… this wonderful place, this Cathedral in a village so far west that it is where Wales meets the sea, this awe-inspiring building in which the Nave slopes upwards towards the Altar…” The Old Stile Press Keith Bayliss was commissioned to produce work in and around the east end of St David’s Cathedral during its…
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