‘The Gift’ detail
Painted for the 70th anniversary of Snowdonia National Park (2021)
Often, painting with a philosophy to explore means separating the elements out to manage ideas. When re-reading about colour theory and the Impressionists painters these two paintings emerged.
Around the time after COP26, many complex questions arose; how will all those new ideas for change evolve to support an environmental plan to care for the earth? like the solitary tree, it’s place is in a fixed and yet delicate state.
Y Rhodd’
Peintiwyd i ddathlu 70 mlynedd ers sefydlu Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri (2021)
Yn aml, mae peintio gydag athroniaeth i archwilio yn golygu gwahanu’r elfennau er mwyn rheoli syniadau. Wrth ailddarllen am theori lliw ac arlunwyr y mudiad Argraffiadwyr datblygodd y ddau baentiad yma.
Ychydig ar ôl COP26, cododd llawer o gwestiynau cymhleth; sut bydd yr holl syniadau newydd hynny ar gyfer newid yn esblygu i gefnogi cynllun amgylcheddol i ofalu am y ddaear? fel y goeden unig, mae mewn cyflwr sefydlog ac eto bregus.
Hadu (to seed)
‘Oak tree in a flooded field’
‘Coeden dderw mewn cae tan ddŵr’
As a meditative painting over the winter months-’Oak tree in a flooded field’ began to develop from an abstract painting sketch (see image 1).
I wanted to capture the essence of an ancient, almost classical landscape, it’s depth and colour range, but with the changes in contemporary times caused by flooding and the effect of this on the solitary steadfast oak.
Fel paentiad myfyriol dros fisoedd y gaeaf – dechreuodd ‘Derwen mewn cae dan ddŵr’ ddatblygu o baentiad haniaethol a frasluniwyd (gweler delwedd 1).
Roeddwn i eisiau dal naws tirwedd sy’n hynafol, bron yn glasurol, ei dyfnder a’i holl liwiau, ond gyda’r newidiadau yn ein hoes ni heddiw a achosir gan lifogydd ac effaith hyn ar y dderwen gadarn unig.
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