During lockdown, which enabled an intense, extended period of making and drawing, a mixed media 3D construction took shape that was a development of several ideas I had been pursuing. Influenced by 18th and 19th century satirical marionettes, portable booths, puppets and automata, a female figure appeared which seemed to be a one off. Standing wearing a striped…
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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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It was 1989. I had only been in post as Community Arts Officer, based at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum for a few months and found myself involved in the organisation of a festival. I shared an office with Dawn Phillips, who was the Education Officer and I was finding my way, creating…
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During the 1980’s, Keith Bayliss developed the Community Arts Service for the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery & Museum in Swansea. As Keith Bayliss Arts Services he has undertaken school, gallery, community based workshops, residencies, festivals and projects. He facilitated schools based artist residencies and workshops for Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen and also devised and facilitated the…
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I have worked as an artist in education for over thirty years. I am not a teacher, I am an artist who found himself working with any age from nursery to degree students. I think sometimes that I could write the book on arts in education. I have travelled through many parts of east, west,…
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Keith Bayliss is an experienced tutor specialising in painting and drawing. for all ages. He led the first of six master classes at Mission Gallery for its flagship education programme Criw Celf West, funded by Arts Council of Wales which has been running since 2012. Participants were able to explore drawing with charcoal, developing their…
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Taking our imaginations for a walk We are lucky here in this part of the UK to have an abundance of artists, writers and craftspeople of all descriptions living on our doorstep. The arts provide a wonderful resource for learning about our world and our place in it. I am an artist. Over twenty five…
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Image: Loughor Tryst, Woodcut. Festival Print by William Brown. Gorseinon Community Arts Festival was a short lived series of annual events but were important in allowing an opportunity to profile important artists and makers and to involve the local schools, businesses and community venues. I was asked by Gorseinon Community Council to talk to them…
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Keith Bayliss was both exhibiting artist at St Davids Festival of Music and the Arts, and the Festival’s visual arts exhibition organiser from 2008 – 2014. During this time, he programmed work by artists including Claire Curneen, Tony Goble, Rozanne Hawksley, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Sally Moore and Roger Moss.
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The Swansea Festival of Czech and Slovak Surrealism 1998 – to give it its full title – had its beginnings in The Visual Word exhibition, in that I was able to find the finances to bring over the Czech poet Josef Janda to read both in Cardiff and Swansea as part of a programme of…
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