Voyage of the Heart. “As with much of my work Voyage of the Heart became a series of related woodcuts. I was musing on the idea that the Heart – depicted as a flying head – if allowed to roam free of the constraints of the body would travel, seeking new places to lay down…
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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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I spent a very fruitful year organising educational projects at Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen. During that time I met and worked closely with Sophie Hadaway, then Arts Adviser for Carmarthen. Sophie organised a project that would allow us to see a project through from initial meetings with teachers, gallery visit, to the final production of artwork produced…
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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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Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran Gallery in a Box is a small “mobile gallery” which aims to engage with schools, community groups and outside events, bringing the work of contemporary artists to those who cannot visit a gallery. The box itself and the work inside was commissioned from twelve artists based in Wales. This gallery…
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