Image: Portrait of Keith Bayliss in studio with ‘Dreaming Awake’ exhibition work. Photograph by Bernard Mitchell. Wales has a good share of narrative artists. We seem to be a natural home for this form of visual story-telling. It was a conversation one afternoon with my friend Malcolm Parr that revolved around the premise that the…
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Intimate Portraits was born of the idea that each artist no matter what their subject matter or medium is present in their work. They cannot escape leaving something of themselves in the art they produce. It is still possible, given the appropriate conditions, that is, an artist with an idea and a friendly gallery, that…
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Above: Yo Lo Fi 1 Oil on Canvas The Tannery at MoMA Machynlleth is a slate stone, square space. The walls have been left as a natural stone surface. For the exhibition Yo Lo Fi/Fe Welais i, it was not my intention to hang in a conventional way. I wanted, as far as it was…
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La Maison Hauntee / Ty Screch / The Haunted House Keith Bayliss & William Brown, Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea 2006 I miss the seemingly haphazard, anarchic and wonderfully creative phone call conversations with my friend the artist William Brown. William, by his immense enthusiasm to make and exhibit and to be as inclusive as possible, made…
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Mission Gallery has been transformed by the artist. Its geometry and light will never seem quite the same again, filled as it has been with shining presences and the flight-paths of angels. I can’t help but feel that Keith’s work will remain long after the exhibition has gone, the memories of it imprinted on the…
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Drawing for me is the first port of call for the expression of an idea. I use it in two ways, the roughest setting out and examination of an idea or as a finished work worthy of exhibition. I tend to make drawings on a theme in batches. Cutting a small pile of paper to…
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Each exhibition is an opportunity to make new work. This exhibition has been created specifically for the space in which it is displayed. Yo lo fi/Fe welais i, in part, pays homage to a creative friendship between Keith Bayliss and his long-time friend, the writer and teacher Malcolm Parr, which has proved to be of…
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Oriel Q, Narbeth: January 2016. This subject has fascinated artists for centuries – the story is an old and sadly continuing one. Aspects of its drama are enacted in some form each day with sometimes tragic consequences. A painting titled ‘Swsana’, produced many years ago by the artist was the starting point for this exhibition. The…
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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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