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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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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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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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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Image: Janette My first exhibition in 1980 took place four years after graduating at Swansea Arts Workshop (now Mission Gallery). This was a gallery and studio spaces organised by the Swansea Branch of the Association of Artists and Designers in Wales. It was an artist run venture and I was one of the younger members…
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Image: Epona, Oil on Canvas, 153x122cm. I approach painting, usually in oil, on primed or un-primed paper or primed canvas, with the slightest and minimal amount of planning. I prefer to allow the idea to develop on the canvas. Two figures can become one dominant character or one character can find itself in the company…
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