ANNUAL REPORT 2012 ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL 2012

CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY FOR CYMDEITHAS CELFYDDYD GYFOES CYMRU T H E A L B A N Y G A L L E R Y

Dominic Hills

SUMMERMuriel Delahaye -EXHIBITION Gossiping 29 x 25ins, oil2011 on canvas st rd 1SUMMER July – 3 EXHIBITIONSeptember An exhibition of work by more than 70 artists 28th June - 10th August 2013

A changing exhibition of work by more than 50 artists

Diagonal Shadow 65 x 120cms egg tempera

CERI AUCKLAND DAVIES CERI AUCKLAND DAVIES 13th September - 5th October 2013 9th September – 1st October

For images and74b details Albany ofRoad, future , exhibitions, CF24 3RS view our website T: 029www.albanygallery.com 2048 7158 E: [email protected] W:www.albanygallery.com Gallery open: Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm, Sundays and Bank Holidays 11am – 4pm 74b Albany Road, Cardiff CF24 3RS T: 029 2048 7158 E: [email protected] Gallery open: Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sundays and Bank Holidays 11am - 4pm contemporary art society for wales cymdeithas celfyddyd gyfoes cymru

Charity No: 247947

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY AT 31st DECEMBER 2012 Patron The Right Honourable The Earl of Snowdon

President Professor Bryan Hibbard Past President Mrs Betty Evans

Vice Presidents Mr Ken Spurlock MBE Mrs J M Rees-Mathews ✝ Mr Peter Clee Dr Tudor Jones Bernard H Rees

Chairperson Dr Chris Evans Vice Chairperson 1 Mr John Fitzgerald OBE Treasurer Mr Gwyn Stone Events Secretary Mrs Sian Williams Membership Secretary Dr Dan Evans Mulberry Lodge, 3 Pencisely Rd, Llandaff, Cardiff CF5 1DG Tel:02920 226029 Email:[email protected] Secretary Jean A Williams Hafod-Y-Dail, 19 Woodland Park, Ynystawe, SA6 5AR Tel: 01792 844483 Email: [email protected] Assistant Secretary Nesta James Llwyncelyn, 14 Grove Road, Pontardawe SA8 4HH Tel: 01792 863884 Email: [email protected] Executive Committee Professor Tony Curtis, Mrs Ilse Fisher-Hayes, Mr David George, Mr William Gibbs, Dr Judith Foy, Dr Sandra Harding, Professor Tom Hayes, Ms Dilys Jackson, Mr David James, Mrs Madge O’Keeffe, Mr Alan Spiller, Mrs Jean Walcot, Ms Audrey Walker MBE Auditors KTS Owens Thomas Limited (Chartered Accountants)

✝ Mrs J M Rees-Mathews, a long standing member of CASW and a member of the Executive, passed away during the year.

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Dysgl hufen o set bwdin yr ‘Hafod’, porslen Derby, 1787.

Cream bowl from the 'Hafod' dessert service, Derby porcelain, 1787.

Organ siambr Watkins Williams-Wynne, a adeiladwyd gan John Snetzler ac a gynl- Yn y lluniau mae prosiectau y mae'r luniwyd gan y pensaer neo-glasurol Robert Adam (1728-92). Cyfeillion wedi eu cynorthwyo.

Watkins Williams-Wynne’s chamber Illustrated are projects to which the organ, built by John Snetzler and Friends have given financial support. designed by neo-classical architect Robert Adam (1728-92).

Cyfeillion Amgueddfa Cymru Friends National Museum Wales

Mae amcanion y Cyfeillion yn cynnwys: The aims of the Friends include: Hybu diddordeb yn holl safleoedd Amgueddfa Cymru. The stimulation of interest in Amgueddfa Cymru Gwireddir yr amcanion uchod drwy: across all sites. - drefnu ymweliadau o wahanol hydoedd i lefydd o These aims are pursued through: ddiddordeb yn y DU a thramor. - the arrangement of excursions of varying - raglen fisol o ddarlithiau cyhoeddus ar bynciau duration to places of interest in the UK and abroad. celf, hanes a gwyddoniaeth. - monthly public lectures on topics of artistic, - weithgareddau eraill megis cyngherddau ac historical, and scientific interest. ymweliadau ‘tu ôl i’r llenni’ yn yr Amgueddfa. - other activities such as concerts and ‘behind the scenes’ Museum visits.

Mae aelodaeth o’r Cyfeillion yn rhoi cyfle i: Membership of the Friends entitles you to: - fod yn rhan o weithgareddau’r Cyfeillion yn gyffredinol, - involvement in Friends’ activities generally, including ac yn cynnwys tâl gostyngol ar gyfer darlithiau concessionary admission charges to our public cyhoeddus. lectures. - dderbyn Cylchgrawn arobryn y Cyfeillion. - receipt of the award - winning Friends’ Newsletter - dderbyn gostyngiad o 10% yn siopau a mannau bwyta and Magazine. pob safle Amgueddfa Cymru. - a discount of 10% in all Museum shops, restaurants, - gymdeithasu gyda phobl sy’n rhannu’r un diddordebau and cafés. â chi. - participation in an association of like-minded people.

Os oes diddordeb gennych chi ymuno â’r Cyfeillion, If you are interested in becoming a Friend please write to: ysgrifennwch at:

Yr Ysgrifennydd Tanysgrifio (Cyfeillion), Subscriptions Secretary (Friends) Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales Parc Cathays, Cathays Park CAERDYDD, CF10 3NP CARDIFF, CF10 3NP CHAIR CHAT

In my Chair Chat for the New Year I wrote to you for the first time and reflected on the changes in my time as a member. I feel I am now addressing you as friends.

You will have in front of you the report for the Trustees and there you will be able to see, presented in a formal way, the work of the executive in the last year. Amazingly and I suppose inevitably, the change continues with an increased insurance policy and trustee indemnity. Our study tours continue as do our lectures, both Tuesday evenings and Lisvane. Looking at our programme of Tuesday lectures I am pleased to see that it contains the work of David Jones and later in the year explores Street Art so exemplifying that CASW is a broad church. There are additional activities planned, as for the first time we have invited members to submit a piece of their own work for a selling Members Exhibition in June 2013. CASW is asking for a contribution from the sale and I know that is a big ask. The exhibition, will I hope raise the profile of CASW as well as increasing funds for the Society. In addition we will be buying works of art again, specifically for Paintings in Hospitals, to be presented at the 2014 AGM.

At the AGM in July we will again be losing members who have served their terms of office with great commitment and enthusiasm and I thank all of you for your dedication and good will. However there is no such thing as a vacuum and I am delighted that we will be welcoming new members to the executive to take up specific roles. It does seem that with three or four new members each year there is a momentum taking us forward but we must ensure it is within the context of a culture that endures. With this in mind we are planning to help new members joining the executive with an induction programme which will address the framework of Charity Commission guidelines, the Society’s constitution and most importantly the essence of CASW.

During the year CASW lost a very dear member of the Society in the passing of Peggy Rees- Mathews. She was a long standing member of the executive committee , bringing to it charm, grace, passion and hard work. In particular she was the moving force behind the annual dinner. In short, Peggy loved CASW and CASW loved her.

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Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 December 2012 OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES The last year has seen a change in the Chairmanship of the Society with the retirement of Gareth Davies, who served for 10 years as Secretary and 5 years as Chairman. Dr Chris Evans has replaced him as Chair and is supported by a hard-working Executive. There were retirements as a result of trustees serving their time of office and three new members appointed to the Executive. John Fitzgerald was appointed as Vice Chairman, Sian Davies as Events Secretary and Judith Foy as Lecture Secretary. Dr Tudor Jones was appointed as Vice president.

In the last year the charity has presented 12 lectures, study tours both in this country and abroad, supported Artes Mundi with a sum of £3,000, a student prize of £1,000 and contributed £500 to The Bardsey Island Trust for restoration work of the Brenda Chamberlain Murals. The charity is also involved in the publication of documents concerning the visual arts in Wales.

The Society now has progressed legal issues with the production of a licence to use images and an offer of help, should anyone want to include CASW in their will. We have also been fortunate in securing funding to examine the position of Public Art Collecting in Wales as a way of informing our future direction. FINANCIAL REVIEW Reserves policy The charity regularly reviews its reserves levels to ensure they have sufficient funds to operate in the forthcoming year They estimate this to be £25,000. Investment policy and objectives The society regularly reviews where its cash balances are held to ensure they are maximising their investment returns. FUTURE PLANNING 1. Promoting the artistic work within the Society by inviting professional artists and serious amateurs who are members to exhibit their work in an exhibition to be held at Caerphilly at the beginning of June 2013. 2. Exploring how the Society might be involved with the changes planned for Cyfarthfa Castle with a feasibility study on establishing a gal- lery for contemporary art in the area and whether a community based art centre is possible. 3. Setting up a new website with the potential to have an E-Journal where lectures can be published, articles submitted and letters written. This will involve the appointment of an Editor and an Editorial Board. We are appointing a buyer to purchase works of art to be gifted to Painting in Hospitals to be presented at the 2014 AGM. On behalf of the Board C Evans - Trustee 20 April 2013 CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY FOR WALES

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (Incorporating an income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 December 2012

2012 Unrestricted 2011 Total funds INDEPENDENT funds Notes EXAMINER’S REPORT £ £ TO THE TRUSTEES OF INCOMING RESOURCES CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY FOR WALES Incoming resources from generated funds Voluntary income 2 14,065 21,598 I report on the accounts of the Trust for the year ended 31 December Activities for generating funds 3 1,940 6,288 2012, which are set out on pages 6 and 7. Investment income 4 370 332 Respective responsibilities Incoming resources from charitable activities of trustees and independent examiner. Education 15,329 12,474 The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. Total incoming resources 31,704 40,692 The charity’s trustees consider that RESOURCES EXPENDED an audit is not required for this year under section 43(2) of the Charities Charitable Activities Act 1993 (the 1993 Act) and that an independent examination is required. Art 5 4,500 16,052 It is my responsibility to examine Education 15,392 16,706 the accounts (under section 43 of the 1993 Act), to follow procedures Governance costs 6 750 700 laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission Total resources expended 20,642 33,458 (under section 43(7) (b) of the 1993 Act) and to state whether particular NET INCOMING RESOURCES 11,062 7,234 matters have come to my attention. Basis of the independent RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS examiner’s statement My examination was carried out Total funds brought forward 41,446 34,212 in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. An examination TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 52,508 41,446 includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and CONTINUING OPERATIONS - All incoming resources and resources expended arise from continuing activities a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It 6 2012 Unrestricted 2011 Total funds also includes consideration of any BALANCE SHEET as at 31st December 2011 funds £ £ unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations FIXED ASSETS from you as trustees concerning such matters. The procedures undertaken Tangible assets 8 - 1 do not provide all the evidence that Investments 9 25,000 - would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as 25,000 1 to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair view’ and the report CURRENT ASSETS is limited to those matters set out in Debtors 10 500 2,367 the statements below. Independent examiner’s statement Cash at bank 35,406 42,548 In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention: 35,906 44,915 (i) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that, in any material respect, the CREDITORS/amounts falling due within one year 11 (2,398) (3,470) requirements NET CURRENT ASSETS 33,508 41,445 • to keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 58,508 41,446 the 1993 Act; and • to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting NET ASSETS 58,508 41,446 records and to comply with the FUNDS 13 accounting requirements of the 1993 Act have not been met, or Unrestricted funds: (ii) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn General fund 40,508 36,446 in order to enable a proper Purchase reserve fund 12,000 5,000 understanding of the accounts to be reached. 52,508 41,446 Gareth Lynn FCCA Restricted Funds 6,000 - KTS Owens Thomas Limited TOTAL FUNDS 58,508 41,446 20 April 2013

These financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 30 April 2013 and were signed on its behalf by C Evans - Trustee and J Williams - Trustee

CHARITY INFORMATION 31st December 2012 CHARITY NUMBER 247947 REGISTERED OFFICE Hafod Y Dail, 19 Woodland Park Ynystawe, Swansea SA6 5AR BANKERS Barclays Bank plc, Cardiff Business Centre, Cardiff ACCOUNTANTS KTS Owens Thomas Limited, The Counting House, Celtic Gateway, Cardiff CF11 0SN

Constitution Objects The objects of the Society shall be to foster and promote the maintenance, improvement and development of artistic taste, and the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the arts among the people of Wales and for this purpose, but not otherwise, the Society shall have power to purchase contemporary works of art of accepted importance and to arrange for exhibitions of such works for the benefit of the public, and to present them to Welsh public charitable institutions. NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 31 December 2012 1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES Accounting convention The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, the Charities Act 1993 and the requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice, Accounting and Reporting by Charities. Financial Reporting Standard Number I Exemption has been taken from preparing a cash flow statement on the grounds that the charity qualifies as a small charity. Incoming resources and resources expended Incoming resources are accounted for on an accruals basis. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. All costs are directly attributable to their cost classifications. Governance costs Include costs of the preparation and examination of statutory accounts and cost of any legal advice to trustees on governance or constitutional matters. Tangible fixed assets Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life. Office equipment -20% on reducing balance. The balance of the net book value of tangible fixed assets was written down to £1 in the previous year. Future purchases of tangible fixed assets will be charged to administration expenditure on a repairs and renewals basis.

2. VOLUNTARY INCOME 2012 2011 10. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR £ £ 2012 2011 Ordinary Membership 7,134 7,536 £ £ Donations and other receipts 12,895 11,547 Trade debtors - 1,867 Gift Aid 1,384 1,167 Other debtors 500 500 20,065 21,598 500 2,367

3. ACTIVITIES FOR GENERATING FUNDS 11. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR 2012 2011 £ £ 2012 2011 Advertising Revenue 1,190 1,300 £ £ Gregynog Book 750 4,988 Trade creditors 2,398 3,470 1,940 6,288 7

6. Governance costs 13. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS 2012 2011 Net Transfers At 1/1/12 movement between At £ £ in funds funds 31/12/12 Accountancy 750 700 £ £ £ £ Unrestricted funds 7. TRUSTEES’ REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS General fund 36,446 11,062 (7,000) 40,508 There were no trustees’ remunerations or other benefits for the year ended Purchase reserve fund 5,000 - 7,000 12,000 31 December 2012 nor for the year ended 31 December 2011. TOTAL FUNDS 41,446 11,068 - 52,508 TRUSTEES’ EXPENSES Trustees were reimbursed expenses for the year ended 31 December 2012 totalling £1,461 (2011: £3,761) for costs incurred. Restricted funds Paintings for - 6,000 - 6,000 8. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS Hospitals Office equipment TOTAL FUNDS 41,446 17,062 - 58,508 £ Cost At 1 January 2012 3,729 Depreciation At 1 January 2012 3,728 Net Book Value At 31 December 2012 - At 31 December 2011 1 SOME STATISTICS 1995 - 2011 Number of Buyers 14 Does not include Portfolio Commissioners or Eisteddfod Selectors Number of Purchases 161 Portfolios are counted as single items Number of Gifts Received 19 Individuals have generously given artworks to CASW during this period Cost of Purchases £188,000 Purchased from some artists and galleries at favourable prices Approximate Current Value £275,000 - GARETH DAVIES - former Secretary & Chair of CASW £300,000 (At my retirement AGM in 2011 held in the Reardon Smith Lecture No. of Institutions in Receipt of Work 20 Theatre, Amgueddfa Cymru- National Museum Wales, the Society Some will have received multiple donations invited me to give an illustrated talk on a subject of my choice, an honour now doubled with a request for it to appear in print. It does so largely as delivered, rather than in more article format, particularly illustrations).

Contemporary art is in a state of flux with major conceptual changes and the use of new media and materials often of a transient nature. Curatorial issues are further complicated by economic crisis. For CASW, traditional and cherished roles, such as buying art, particularly in the context of finding them appropriate homes, are concerns. Provincial museums, long standing recipients offering the widest possible public access, 8 Buyer 1995 The late Prof.Peter Walcot Number of Purchases - 5 in line with our constitutional obligations, are under serious An eminent academic, Professor of Classics and subsequently threat. Many are likely to reduce their services and some will Ancient History at , Peter was a distinguished close. connoisseur of contemporary , translating his Despite this depressing background I have chosen to mark my scholarly skills as an historian of the art of the Ancient and retirement with a review of artworks purchased by CASW Antique worlds to the contemplation of the contemporary. during my time as its Secretary and Chair. I do so because they represent a major contribution to preserving and reflecting Welsh contemporary art, and of which we can be proud. Importantly also, because artwork purchasing and gifting by CASW continues to be critical to any future art collection for Wales, particularly as it uses a buying system which relates it closely to informed public taste. My choices are an attempt to reflect the character of the CASW Collection and the vision of its buyers – chronologically, media-wise, subject matter and recipients. Obviously, there is a personal element, but certainly not of value judgement on buyer choices. My selection has been conditioned by my tastes – my fondness of abstraction and colour and my unashamedly romantic love of historic themes and their iconography, folk memory, locality and sense of place. Choices have been constrained by practical considerations such as presentation time and the availability of images; consequently, many favourites are left out. I had hoped to include 2 or 3 from each buyer, to give a flavour of their selection, but I am frequently restricted to one.

Sally Moore Cat’s Cradle oil National Library of Wales (NLW) Born in Barry in 1962, Sally trained at the Ruskin School Welsh-born Merlin has been based in Glasgow for many years, of Art, Oxford, subsequently winning a scholarship to the though showed here recently, and is an artist of international British School in Rome and on to an MA at . reputation. He was trained at the Central School of Art, She was Welsh Artist of the Year in 2005. As seen here she is London and the Royal College of Art. His subject matter is an accomplished draughtswoman and many of her paintings wide ranging, quasi-abstract, often referencing elements of are mini psychological dramas. She often uses wild animals landscape, seascapes, figures, sometimes sexual, or anonymous incongruously in domestic settings and herself as the main buildings or structures such as walls, piers, bridges, doorways, accompanying model, to create a strong narrative with a sense or as in this example an interior featuring a staircase. Here it of theatre, sometimes surreal or indeed absurd. Lunching with is geometric shapes which are important, spatial relationships her at Bernard and Val Rees’s she explained how she hoped and juxtaposition of forms and colour, in his almost ubiquitous her work both unsettled and amused the viewer. acrylic.

1996 British Coal Corporation Collection Purchases Bill Cleaver and Gareth Davies 9 Eleven works were purchased, consisting of 7 by Jack Crabtree and 4 by Vincent Evans, the remains of a much larger collection Buyer 1996 David Alston Number of Purchases - 4 formed originally by the National Coal Board (NCB) and passed to its successor, the British Coal Corporation (BCC). At the time of his buyer appointment, David Alston was Keeper Bill Cleaver’s senior management position in the NCB was of Art at the National Museum of Wales, establishing the Art the key to this acquisition. He had long known the collection in Wales’s gallery. He has been our Venice Biennale guide on at Hobart House, the Board’s London headquarters. When several occasions and a frequent CASW lecturer. I had hoped the BCC was finally disbanded, he made inquiries about to show two of his purchases but I have been unable to source recovering the Welsh elements for CASW. This led to me an image of David Garner’s Political Games 2, a construction conducting a somewhat drawn out negotiation with the using industrial boots, steel and wood, resembling a dartboard Corporation. We had hoped, originally, to acquire the works and making a powerful, political statement on the decline of at no cost, as they had been financed by a publicly owned Welsh industry. But I do have – body, but the Treasury declined and we were forced to buy them back for Wales at their market value.

Merlin James Way Up Jack Crabtree Going Down the Ramp acrylic Glyn Vivian, Swansea oil on canvas Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales (AC - NMW) Born in 1938 in Rochdale, Lancashire Jack studied at St. Most popularly known as the grandson of Agatha Christie, Martin’s College of Art and the Royal Academy School, Mathew Prichard is a distinguished connoisseur of modern London. Bill Cleaver persuaded the NCB’s Welsh Division and contemporary art. He is a former President of the to appoint him as an intern to record the coal National Museum of Wales and a past Chairman of the Welsh industry in its terminal decline. Only 7 paintings survived at Arts Council and is currently President of the Welsh Group. Hobart House, including this one featuring colliers leaving the lamp room and going down the ramp to the pit head, part of its framework is visible – and to their underground shift. Crabtree can be described as a social realist working in a natural style. But he is more than a recorder, for his imagery shows an affectionate sensitivity and an interlocking reality. Fittingly now at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales whose branch, Big Pit, Pwll Mawr is Wales’ national coal mining museum.

Rawleigh Clay Pi metal and wood construction National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire

Rawleigh trained at the Carmarthen College of Art and is responsible for Coed Hills, Open Air Art Space near Cowbridge. I have included this primarily as an example of a site-specific work and of CASW’s willingness to explore 10 a wide range of locations for its donations. It really needs to be seen in the round and its inter-relationship with a Vincent Evans After the Blast 360° background. Here it frames a late 18th Century folly – oil on canvas Paxton’s Tower - its form echoing the Greek letter pi. Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales (AC - NMW)

Vincent Evans was born in 1894 at Ystalefera and died in 1976. He left school at 13, working the next 10 years as a coal miner. He trained at Swansea College of Art before winning a scholarship to the Royal College. His work celebrates working class life, mostly focused on the mining community. His paintings are accurate in every detail yet reminiscent of theatre sets, particularly his lighting affects.

David Tress In the Window oil Museum of Modern Art Wales, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth (MOMAW)

CASW buyers often attempt to reflect the range of an artist’s output. David Tress is primarily known as a landscape Buyer 1997 Mathew Pritchard CBE Number of Purchases - 4 painter though town and city scapes feature, particularly of his native London. Long resident in Wales he is arguably our current, leading landscape artist. Less well known, he is an accomplished painter of the nude. This is from his second series and emphasises David’s painterly qualities. Garmon The Life of Garmon who is the Welsh Germanus, the 5th Century bishop of Auxerre in Gaul sent by the Pope to Britain to combat the palagian heresy in the early church. Lewis also makes him the war leader of the Christian British against the pagan Saxons and Picts, The painting encapsulates the speech by the local, tribal leader calling on Garmon and all patriots to defend their homeland.

Gwinllan a roddwyd i’m gofal yw Cymru fy ngwlad i’w thraddodi i’m plant ac i blant fy mhlant yn dreftadaeth dragwyddol ac weller moch yn rhuthro arni i’w maeddu – minnau yn awr galwaf ar fy nghyffeillion cyffredin ac ysgolhaig – deuwch ataf i’r adwy, sefwch gyda mi yn y bwlch fel y cadwer i’r oesoedd a ddel y glendid a fu

Wales my land is a vineyard entrusted to my care to hand on to my children and my children's children as an everlasting heritage. Buyer 1998 Prof Alistair Crawford Number of Purchases - 10 But beasts rush in to foul the land. Alistair moved to the Visual Art Department of the University So now I call on my friends, College of Wales, in 1974 as lecturer. In 1990 lay and scholar (cleric) alike: he was awarded a personal chair, becoming the first Professor Come with me to the breach, of Art in the University of Wales. He was responsible for stand with me in the breach; transforming the historical chemical building into a new preserve for tomorrow the purity that once was. 11 University School of Art, with its splendid art gallery and museum. He is an accomplished painter and print maker. Surely, a painting suitable for a Parliament.

Ogwyn Davies Gwinllan a roddwyd mixed media National Library of Wales (NLW)

This was commissioned by Alistair, when the Welsh Assembly Buyer 1999 Dr Anne Price-Owen Number of Purchases - 14 was voted in by the slimmest of margins, and subtitled, A Painting Suitable for a Parliament. Anne recently retired as Senior Lecturer and Assistant Ogwyn was born in Trebanog, Swansea in 1925 and studied Postgraduate Co-ordinator in the Art & Design Research at the Swansea School of Art. His works are not just made Department at Swansea Metropolitan University. She is a in Wales but of Wales, incorporating local earth, sand, stone distinguished art historian and critic and has curated many dust and pigments, much like Ivor Davies and both reflect major exhibitions. She is an acknowledged expert on David aspects of Wales’s historical heritage. Gwinllan a Roddwyd Jones and women artists in Wales and a past, long serving are lines from Saunders Lewis’ masterpiece drama, Buchedd member of CASW’s Executive. ties them to their past, yet fractured (tokened by a broken arm), while dandelion clock parachutes, at the mercy of the elements, are caught in the net of an entrapped future.

Mary Lloyd Jones Bro oil on canvas National Library of Wales (NLW) Born in 1934 at Pontarfynach (Devil’s Bridge), , Mary studied at Cardiff College of Art from 1951-1956. Landscape is an abiding theme, epitomised in Bro, a Welsh word of multiple meaning. covering the English – region, country as in countryside, locality. Important for her is a sense of Welshness. Her work is quintessentially abstract, in vivid, unsubdued colour and as here with sweeping marks. She attempts a distillation of the landscape seeking to capture its 2000 Year of the Artist Portfolio Commissioner - Neil Confrey physicality while revealing its history and projecting a sense 12 of place. In 2000 the Society celebrated the Year of the Artist by commissioning a print portfolio under the direction of Neil Confrey, then a member of CASW’s Exec. It was a suite of 12 prints in an edition of 35 with a different, distinguished artist chosen to represent each month of the year, all giving their services free. Portfolios were donated to Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales and The National Library and the remaining 33 sold.

James Donovan Miner Community oil on canvas Artworks Collection

Born at Aberdare in 1974, James was a student at the Swansea Institute of Higher Education. He gained early success with solo exhibitions in Wales and London. His use of a typtrich- like, 3-figure composition, often bearing a likeness to himself, is common. His father and grandfather were colliers but James Peter Prendergast September paints in a post coal mining milieu, his work largely concerned print with how the current generation, often unsure of their roots, Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum of Wales (AC NMW) are struggling with their identity. He explores this in symbolic iconography. The title is a play on words. Here the daisy chain I have chosen this from the portfolio as it is my only opportunity of showing the work of the late Peter Prendergast, even though it does not represent his full flowering, when he was one of Wales’s leading landscape painters. His death was a major loss.

Glenys Cour Votive Vessel II mixed media University of Glamorgan Artworks Collection

Buyer 2001 Gareth Davies Number of Purchases - 7

It was my privilege to be your Buyer in 2001. I have presented them to you at length at a previous AGM and have written on them. I feel it would be invidious to make a selection, particularly as most of the artists are friends, and so I illustrate them without comment. 13

Gwilym Prichard South Front Tenby oil on canvas University of Glamorgan Artworks Collection

Mary Griffiths Untitled oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art Wales, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth (MOMAW)

Clive Hicks-Jenkins Stumbles and Cannot Rise conté on paper Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum of Wales (AC NMW)

Still Life by Alan Salisbury Ivor Davies Branwen in Ireland oil on canvas National Library of Wales

Vivienne Williams Vessel mixed media on paper Bodelwyddan Castle Art Trust

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Buyer 2002 Dr Peter Wakelin Number of Purchases - 13 plus 2 gifts Peter is by academic training a geographer, an industrial archaeologist and historian, by career the Secretary of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments for Alan Salisbury Hillside Stratification Wales. By inclination he is an art historian and critic, reflecting mixed media on paper the same academic rigour and scholarship that characterizes University of Glamorgan Artworks Collection his professional life. He is the author of definitive books and articles on the subject, curator of exhibitions and a serious collector of Welsh art.

the illumination. Ernie’s house sometimes features, with him standing at the door. But here it is his wife, he is in his upstairs studio creating his magical world, the small town and narrow valley becoming the universe. There are serious influences on his work, the most readily recognisable, Chagall though Van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, Munch and others are discernible, making him a major artist in a European tradition.

Bert Isaac Quarry Edge water soluble media on paper National Library of Wales Born in 1923 Bert studied at Cardiff College of Art, under Ceri Richards. He was an inspirational teacher and Head of Art at the London Institute of Education, returning to Wales in retirement. His studio in Abergavenny gave him easy access to the Clydach Gorge, from which his landscapes draw much inspiration. Essentially a watercolourist, the reclamation of Buyer 2003 Number of Purchases - 9 industrial landscapes by nature, in a detailed, skilfully drawn manner characterised his early work. The theme continued to Iwan Bala – his surname deriving from the town close to the preoccupy him in later life but portrayed much more loosely, small village of Sarnau, where he was born in 1956. Iwan often in semi abstraction and abundant colour, as in Quarry trained at Cardiff College of Art, his work which is more 15 Edge. drawing than painting, won him the National Eisteddfod Gold Medal in 1997. His career spans art curatorship and management, art teaching, art criticism and writing. He is a leading commentator on visual art and of Wales’ place in it.

Ernest Zobole Subject Matter No 7 oil on canvas Glyn Vivian, Swansea

Ernie was born in 1927 and died in 1999 at Ystrad Rhondda, a town and valley which dominated his art. He trained at the Cardiff College of Art, subsequently becoming a lecturer in painting at Newport School of Art. Like Charles Burton and other Rhondda compatriots he saw his immediate valley Ken Elias Parlour Cabinet Painting: Remembering Katy 1 environs as proper subject matter for his paintings – indeed oil on canvas for him almost the only ones. Eschewing conventional University of Glamorgan Artworks Collection perspective he saw them as no other painter. The scenes, as here, are frequently at night, often starry and from windows and open house doors, at which occasionally stand their occupants, light streams outwards, car headlights adding to Born in 1944 in Glynneath, Ken left school at 16 to be a Buyer 2004 technician in a pathology laboratory. At 21 he gave up this Neil Confrey Number of Purchases security to train at the Cardiff and Newport Colleges of Art - 5 plus 3 gifts and a distinguished career in art. He originally produced photographic collage and Pop Art. A part- time Masters at Neil has been an active UWIC and a return to his early family neighbourhood led to supporter of CASW memory painting, a personal narrative based on old, familiar for many years, and landmarks and settings. Ken says of this period in his work one-time Secretary, that it is reclaiming the landscape of childhood with an adult the inspiration and vision. His Aunt Katy was an usherette at the cinema, ‘the driving force behind pictures’ (as we called them in the valleys), which was part the Year of the Artist of the Glynneath Miners Welfare Hall. Here, hard edged, a Portfolio. A solicitor cabinet of personalia is set in a cinema like setting. by profession he is a serious collector and supporter of young artists. He commissions original works from which his law firm produces a limited edition of prints, subsequently made into Christmas cards, and Neil has ensured that copies of the prints are represented in the CASW Collection, coming to us as gifts. We were delighted when, as our buyer, he decided to arrange for the AGM to be held in his local village of Llandyfaelog, Carmarthenshire, at the village hall after lunch at the local pub. Now that’s what I call relating Art to the community.

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Sue Williams Communications drawing with paint Museum of Modern Art Wales, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth (MOMAW)

Sue was born in 1956 in Redruth, Cornwall. In the 1970s she studied at Cardiff College of Art, and in 1987 was awarded an MA in Fine Art by the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education. She won the 2000 National Eisteddfod Gold Medal and was Catrin Howell Twr Tywyll selected for the Artes Mundi Exhibition in 2006. Sue is a ceramic sculpture consummate draftswoman with a variety of drawing styles, School of Art Gallery often characterised by their fluidity and strong graffiti-like element. Her canvases are frequently very large, highly sensual, Born in 1969 at Llandysul, Catrin is a graduate of the emotional, cathartic and self reflective. Sometimes, seriously University of Wolverhampton, with a Masters from the erotic, but not as one art critic suggested “thinly disguised Royal College. In 1999 she won the National Eisteddfod pornography” – they are the diary of the human condition, Gold Medal for Craft and Design. Her work has been shown particularly relevant to issues of the feminist critique. across the UK, Europe and USA, and she is a favourite at the As here, they can be naïve and innocently child-like, charming Ruthin Craft Centre. It features animals, often dogs or horses, in their inquisitiveness and, for me, Communications could be associated with Celtic mythology. Twr Tywyll – Dark Tower readily sub-titled I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. comprises 4 pairs of hounds – hunting dogs - balanced on top of one another, and is a piece inspired by the story of Cantre’r Gwaelod, The Lower Hundred – the ancient, drowned land in Cardigan Bay, where, the church bells can still be heard on a stormy night!

If you want a little money to go a long way David’s your man. An Oxford geography graduate – he subsequently studied historic landscape resources at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Contemporary art became an increasing preoccupation both as a museum curator, developing at Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery a notable regional art collection, and now as a free lance museum and art curator, consultant and writer. In 2011 he curated CASW’s Distribution Exhibition and, almost single-handed, directed the associated gifting of works. Given, the range of his purchases selecting 2 was extremely difficult and very much a personal choice. Eisteddfod Prize 2000 Roger Cucksey & Art Gallery In 2004, CASW inaugurated a National Eisteddfod Purchase Prize. Worth £2,000, a museum, art gallery or appropriate institution in the Eisteddfod location, selects a work for its collection. The 2004 venue was Newport. Roger Cucksey, Keeper of Art at Newport Museum & Art Gallery and our Buyer in 1983, made the selection.

17 William Brown Mari Lwyd Chat Walter Keeler Branch Teapots Melanie Brown Teapot lino cut ceramic Aberystwyth University School of Art Gallery Newport Museum & Art Gallery Born in 1953 and brought up in Canada, William lived in The Gallery has a major tea pot collection and so Roger many countries before settling in Wales in the 1990s. Animal acquired examples by the two Monmouthshire-based imagery abounds in his work, both as a painter and printmaker, ceramicists specialising in tea pots. Walter Keeler features often in surreal humour, as here where the Mari Lwyd appear significantly in the V&A’s definitive ceramics gallery, and has to be in conversation. Elements of Celtic art are suggested an international reputation. Besides degrees from Poly and there is fine draughtsmanship. An engaging companion, and Cardiff College of Art, Melanie Brown was a pupil of regrettably William died at too early an age. Walter’s and for her, the ergonomics of a piece is potentially part of its beauty.

Sue Hiley Harris Loop the Loop Buyer 2005 David Moore Number of Purchases - 24 plus 3 gifts woven sculpture Museum of Modern Art Wales, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth (MOMAW) An Australian, Sue studied fine art at Brisbane where she was a museum artist. Subsequently she trained as a weaver at Bradford, using her spinning and weaving skills to produce textile sculpture. She has lived in Wales since 1981. Loop the Loop, constructed of hemp and linen, hand-woven with her trademark intersecting warps, characterises her abstract sculptures, derived from the natural environment. It is a continuous piece, seemingly without beginning or end. Her works are inspiringly mesmerising, particularly when displayed in the open-air, especially her spiral forms, as they react to the elements.

Sarah Snazell Lost Words mixed media Museum of Modern Art Wales, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth (MOMAW) Born in Abergavenny in 1965 Sarah returned to die there in 1999 – a lost talent at a tragically early age. She took her initial and Master’s degrees at Leeds University. Despite remaining in Yorkshire, much of her work, mostly large and in oil, features as background the Black Mountains surrounding her childhood Abergavenny home. There is often a feminist perspective, sometimes of her in a Welsh landscape. Her Welshness was 18 important to her. Lost Words pulls at my heartstrings for it reflects her concern for the loss of language. Her grandfather could understand his Welsh bible but two generations on she is gagged, unable to speak her native tongue.

Buyer 2006 Bernard Rees Number of Purchases - 11

Born in 1934, Bernard followed a career in law as a highly respected Cardiff solicitor. But the visual arts have always been central to his life, especially from the age of 18 when he purchased and read Herbert Read’s The Meaning of Art. The Mathew Tomalin National Museum of Wales became his art school, especially Rocker Series VI after the Davies Sisters’ bequests and more recently that of silvered cast iron, steel, Derek Williams. He is a connoisseur of Welsh contemporary nickel and acrylic UGAC art (as well as of fine food and wine!) building up his own important collection. He has of course been the Society’s Vice Chair and is now a Vice President. In his purchasing, Bernard made a conscious decision to increase sculpture representation, and this is reflected in 5 out of 11 purchases.

Born in 1945 in Kent, educated at Sussex University Mathew A suite of 4 works in an edition of 50 commissioned by Prof. studied jewellery at the Sir John Case College, London. Tony Curtis. This impressive portfolio featuring 4 artists of He began his career making jewellery in precious metal international standing, together with a prestigiously produced before moving on to sculpture, pioneering in Britain the Gregynog book – Following Petra, and edited by Prof. Curtis use of cast iron and helping to show its versatility. From this marked our 70th Anniversary celebrations and replaced unpretentious, common, industrial metal he produces visually the traditional buying. In 2008 Prof.Curtis extended the stunning sculpture. Mathew and his co-practioners, including commissioning to secure more prints by Shani and Laura. our own Dilys Jackson, have set Wales centre stage in cast iron sculpture.

2008 Eisteddfod Purchase Prize Selector Lord Dafydd Elis Thomas

Dafydd was Presiding Officer of the Senedd, The National 19 Assembly of Wales, when he selected the Cardiff National Eisteddfod Purchase Prize. This was jointly funded by the Tony Curtis Commissioner 2007 70th Anniversary Print Portfolio Assembly and CASW, and is an indicator of the way in which CASW might develop its purchasing strategy in the future. Tony is an Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University Lord Elis Thomas is a distinguished scholar of medieval Welsh of Glamorgan. Additionally he is a respected scholar of literature and an acknowledged connoisseur of contemporary contemporary Welsh art. His writings on the subject are Welsh art and a supporter of public collections, with aspirations numerous and authoritative. Tony and Margaret’s artworks of developing a public Senedd Collection perhaps now less collection is in its range and quality a stunning reflection of likely in view of changed political circumstances. contemporary Welsh art.

Laura Ford Espaliered Girl David Nash Red Flash Shani Rhys James The Hand Mirror David Tress Winter at Clegyr Boia Manon Awst & Benjamin Walther Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse oil Y Senedd National Assembly of Wales Both artists have Welsh connections though work mostly from their Berlin studio. Four Horsemen are included not just on artistic merit but also because the purchase represents joint funding by CASW and the Assembly and emphasises CASW’s policy of locating works outside the traditional museum/ gallery venue.

Sally Matthews Welsh Black Bull steel, burnt gorse and black wool National Botanic Garden Another site-specific piece - commissioned by William for the National Botanic Garden, the second such gift from CASW in support of the Garden’s intention to develop a sculpture collection.

Buyer 2009 William Gibbs Number of Purchases - 9

A member of a family whose name is synonymous with collecting and preserving contemporary art, particularly of 20 Wales. William is a distinguished connoisseur and outstanding contributor to the Society in time, expertise and generosity.

Pamela Rawnsley Vessel Sequence: Mad March silver Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum of Wales (AC NMW)

Pamela originally concentrated on jewellery before moving Buyer 2010 Audrey Walker MBE Number of Purchases - 6 to larger objects such as silver vessels. Her work derives from Audrey originally trained as a painter at the Edinburgh College her Brecon Beacons environs. Quick sketches of the landscape of Art and the Slade, later moving to textiles, becoming one and its changing light lead to remarkable silver forms. Here of the leading exponents of embroidered textile art and a pair of vessels, elegant in their simplicity, reacting to each an eminent teacher. Long resident in Wales she is a valued other like the hares on the mountains, which inspired them. member of CASW Executive. I feature them also because William purchased them in

partnership with the Derek William Trust, and as he says a potential model for future CASW buying.

Rozanne Hawksley Queen of Spades textile/multi media Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum of Wales (AC NMW) Buyer 2011 Dr Chris Evans Number of Purchases - 7 Rozanne Hawksley has an international reputation, with work in the and the Textile Museum Over the years Chris has provided us with a stimulating of Poland and now in AC – NMW. This was another rare lecture programme and her evening series has developed new opportunity for CASW to support textile art. The piece is audiences. To this already-valued contribution she has added based on a Pushkin short story in which the Ace of Spades, in significantly to the CASW Collection purchases which she a winning hand, changes to a Queen. so eloquently presented at last year’s AGM and now recorded in the 2011 Annual Report. Consequently, it would be an 2011 Eisteddfod Purchase Prize insult to elaborate – I just ask you to enjoy with me two of Held in Ebbw Vale, the Eisteddfod covered Blaenau Gwent her selections. and Heads of the Valley. The prize was selected for Llantarnam Grange Art Centre by its Director Hywel Pontin.(I have failed to secure an image of him). He chose 2 sculptures of which I have selected the work of our own Dilys Jackson. 21

Sonja Benskin Mesher Turning the Tide Red I & II acrylic based mixed media Loaned to Velindre Hospital, Cardiff At the outset I proclaimed my fondness for abstraction and the moving power of colour. I end this rather hurried presentation, though I assure you the selection was not hasty, with two such examples. Read what Chris has to say. And just look. It’s not surprising that they were chosen by a medical doctor skilled in healing the inner self. These two paintings Dilys Jackson Tyfiant Deg Pigyn search out mine. cast iron and bronze sculpture Llantarnam Grange Art Centre The visual arts, reflected in the CASW Collection is about like-minded people enjoying themselves. Art makes friends One of a series inspired by tiny flowering stone-like casts. Dilys of us. Thank you again for your support over the last 15 years has been at the forefront of sculptural iron casting, here used and for your friendship. for the base of the piece whilst the flowering points are of cast © of illustrated artworks – the artists, heirs and assigns bronze. The piece appears organic and there is an element of © photographs – mostly CASW (taken largely from its website from originals by Dr. sensuality. of life, reflected in the title Ten Point Growth. Dilys Chris Evans supported by Dr. Dan Evans and Prof. Bryan Hibbard. Loop the Loop, Mari exhibits widely, including at the Royal Academy. She is also Lwyd Chat and photographs of David Moore were provided by The Crooked Window through the kind support of Sue Hiley Harris. Many buyers provided photographs of CASW Studentship Award Selector. themselves. I am grateful to all for their assistance and particularly Prof.Hibbard and my wife Sonia for valued support with the preparation of the original lecture illustrations.

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Mon - Sat Llun - Sad 10am - 4pm Admission free Mynediad am ddim

Red Hill, Garn Fawr - Mixed media on paper 49x65cm 2012 Heol Penrallt Machynlleth David Tress SY20 8AJ

Machynlleth Festival Exhibition [email protected] 15 July - 31 August 2013 www.momawales.org.uk 01654 703355 THE BRENDA CHAMBERLAIN BARDSEY MURALS

Brenda Chamberlain, artist and writer, moved to Bardsey (Enlli, in Welsh) in 1947, where she was to stay for fifteen years. For the most part she lived in the house called Carreg. During this time she twice won the Royal National Eisteddfod Gold Medal for Fine Art, exhibited at the London Galleries of Gimpel Fils and Zwemmer, and wrote her much acclaimed book, Tide Race, about life on the island and the characters around her.

While at Carreg she painted studies for her pictures on the walls; and with her partner, Jean van der Bijl, filled one wall with a remembrance of a holiday in the south of France - Girl Brenda Chamberlain left Bardsey in 1962. Should she have on the Strand. The photographs below show this painting in painted over her wall drawings and left the house as she found 1988 and 2010. it? Lord Newborough, her landlord and owner of the island, might have wished this. But the murals stayed and survived Lord Newborough’s ownership as well as the five years in which the Honourable Michael Pearson, Lord Cowdrey, owned the island.

In 1979 the island was up for sale again and this time religious and cultural groups, along with an interested body of people from Caernarvonshire together with members of the Bird Observatory on Bardsey, formed The Bardsey Island Trust, and after a nationwide appeal the Trust became the owner of the island. 23 The year before the sale John Gittins, from the Welsh Water Authority, after spending a holiday at the Bird Observatory, wrote to Lady , wondering if she might consider discussing the conservation of the murals with her colleagues in, the then, Welsh Arts Council. He thought they were in a reasonable state of preservation and was very enthusiastic about the study, Figures in a Boat.

The murals are an important part of Bardsey’s heritage, but over the years they have deteriorated markedly. Brenda explained her motives in the April 1959 issue of House and Gardens. “Most of the walls have been drawn on, not Five years later, Lady Anglesey’s influence had persuaded Peter primarily to decorate them, but because it’s good to throw Jones, the Visual Arts Director of the Welsh Arts Council, to off the convention of easel painting and to let charcoal or visit the island. He was accompanied by Jill Piercy who would red ochre describe a life-sized horse, a big-eyed monkey, the soon be curating the biggest and best exhibition of Brenda‘s towers of a cathedral….” work, which would tour all the main public galleries in Wales. This visit resulted in John Dawson Evans writing a report on the state of the murals, following which, some work was done to stabilize the Horse from the Side. Carreg from the west and the north east. Nothing more was done, but over the years questions were raised at AGMs about the state of the murals. Unfortunately, the Trust, always strapped for cash, was more concerned with the fabric of the houses, barns, chapel and school. It was always a problem keeping the roofs secure, and the buildings protected against the salty prevailing winds. And no work done on Bardsey ever comes cheaply.

In the 2009 AGM, the question of the fast deteriorating murals, particularly the Girl on the Strand, was raised again. The result was that Luned Meredith and I took the job on ourselves which was to: find someone to assess the murals; raise the money to pay them; find a conservator; raise the conservation and restoration funds. By this time, Girl on the Strand was flaking off the wall 24 faster than diligent cleaners could sweep it up. The report we commissioned stated that the decay could be stopped, outlined The next step was to get three quotations, and after consultation the conservation methods and gave us some idea of cost. with mural experts associated with the National Trust and the National History Museum at St Fagans we agreed that Jane At this point we asked three prominent authorities on Welsh Foley’s team, from Llanfihangel Bryn Pabuan, near Builth Wells, art to help us in our decision making – Jill Piercy, who had using traditional methods, was most suited to our needs. by this time curated three Brenda Chamberlain exhibitions; Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, former Head of Manuscripts and During this time The Bardsey Island Trust was producing its Visual Images at the National Library of Wales; and Peter Lord, Five Year Plan and it seemed sensible to them to take us under author and art critic. We called ourselves the Friends of the its wing. The money we raised (£11,500 so far) helped the Brenda Chamberlain Bardsey Murals and launched a low-key Trust gain a £40,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant to preserve appeal; low-key, because the Trust had plans of its own to raise the murals, and make Carreg waterproof and free from the money for building repairs. destroying damp. The HLF grant also required us to make information panels, educational leaflets and continue our We got pledges and donations, gave talks, sold Enlli CDs, programme of talks. CASW gave us an encouraging £500 biographical pamphlets, pictures and prints, copies of Tide Race, which thrilled me greatly, and boosted the morale of our Gang and tiles illustrated with images from Tide Race. of Five.

Work is already underway to renew the French drains, repair the porches, gullies and slates, strip the render and re-point behind the Girl on the Strand and install a hydrograph. And Jane Foley has gone over to Bardsey to put Perspex screens in front of the murals. In September (by which time the house will have dried out) she will start her conservation and restoration work.

We’re nearly there but is it a never-ending story? The Trust would like to raise a further £20,000 to completely re-render and re-roof Carreg. Any suggestions?

If you can add to our knowledge of Brenda Chamberlain and her time on Bardsey, or of the painting of the murals, I’d be very pleased to hear from you, however small the detail. [email protected] LIST OF MEMBERS (in alphabetical order) AS AT 31st DECEMBER 2012

LIFE MEMBERS Asscher, Sir William Burton, Dr C W and Goodridge, Mr P F and Lovell, Mrs Marjorie Baker, Miss J E Mrs R A Brown, Ms M A Males, Mrs Audrey V, OBE Beck, Dr P and Mrs Lyn Carroll, Mr Justin Grainger, Mrs H Claire Manning, Prof W H Davies, Mr C J and Mrs E Cashmore, Miss M Grant, Mrs Eluned T and Mrs M O Davies, Dr and Mrs D K L Cheal, Mr J & Mrs T Green, Mrs J J Mans, Mrs Sharon Davies, Mr D and Mrs P Chilcott, Mr A W and Mrs H Greening, Dr S E Markham, Mrs R H Davies, Mrs Margaret Childs, Mr C G Greensmith, Mrs S L Marshall, Prof R J Edwards, Miss Vesta Childs, Mrs E C Griffith, Mrs Elan G Maskell, Mr B T Evans, Dr D M D and Mrs E M Clee, Mr P W Griffith, Mrs Vera E McClealland, Miss J and Gibbs, Dr J N and Mrs E Cole, Miss J Griffiths, Dr M C Owen Dr P Gibbs, Mr and Mrs S Confrey, Mr N P and Mrs D E Griffiths, Dr M C McDowall Mr N and Mrs F Gibbs, Mr William M Cory, Mrs J G Griffiths, Mr E M and Mrs A L Melling, Miss A Gooding, Mr and Mrs A J Cour, Mrs Glenys I Griffiths, Mrs B J Moore, Mr David C Griffiths, Mrs Jean Courage, Mrs V M Haines, Dr Elizabeth Morgan, Mr J K Griffiths, Mrs Mary K Cox, Lady Rosamund Shelley Handy, Miss M E Morgan, Mr N R S Henderson, Prof Andrew Craigmyle, Mrs S Harding, Mr R J B and Dr S J Napier, Dr J A and Dr A S Hibbard, Prof B and Dr E Crouch, Mr B I and Mrs E W Harris, Mr P and Mrs S Neal, Mr S J G Jones, Mrs Audrey E Curley, Mrs M D Hart, Mr A J and Mrs J C Neill, Miss Cynthia M Jones, Mrs Margaret Curran, Mr P D and Mrs M Hart, Mrs E V Ng, Dr W Shang Jones, Dr Margaret B Curtis, Prof. T and Mrs M Hawkins, Mrs M A O’Connell, Miss G Kernick, Miss K P Davey, Mrs E M (student) Hawksley, Mrs R J P, ARCA O’Keeffe, Mrs M Lancaster, Mrs Vee M Davidson, Dr J M Hayes, Prof T M and Mrs I M Olafsdottir, Dr R and Mansfield, Prof and Mrs R Davies, Dr D R and Mrs P Hession, Mrs H N Smith, Dr P Pritchard, Mr Mathew, CBE Davies, Dr J S and Mrs M L Y Hicks, Mrs C E & Slater, Mr N Olley, Mrs S M Salter, Miss Violet A Davies, Dr P M and Mrs M D Hockley, Mrs Beryl Owen, Cllr Mrs M K Stevens, Mr T J Davies, Miss E M, OBE Hughes, Miss A G Owens, Mrs S E (student) Thomas, Miss Mair E Davies, Mr A J & Mrs I Hughes, Mr Robert Alwyn Paisey, Mrs R M Thomas, Mrs Mair Davies, Mr D G and Mrs S E Jackson, Ms D M, ARBS Parker, Mr Arthur and Mrs S 25 Tinney, Mr Martin Davies, Mr R and Mrs S L James, Miss Elizabeth M Perkins, Mrs Merle M Wakelin, Dr A P and Davies, Mr T G and Mrs M M James, Ms Nesta Phillips, Dr Sian Mr Clive Hicks-Jenkins Davies, Mrs G P Jenkins, Mrs E Pill, Lady Roisin M Williams, Mrs Margaret Davies, Ms Marion Jenkins, Ms G Popper, Dr H and Mrs M M J Yarr, Dr N T Davies, Prof M and Dr M Jenkins, Mrs Margaret Gillian Price, Mr R J Dawson, Mr C R and Mrs B Jenkins, Ms S P Price-Owen, Dr Ann L de Lloyd, Mr W R and Mrs S A Jessop, Dr J D and Mrs A M Pryce, Mrs B M ORDINARY & Devlin, Mrs A M Jones, Dr H C and Mrs M A Puw, Mr R A STUDENT MEMBERS Dixon, Dr P and James, Mr D Jones, Mr H O and Mrs P M Pyke, Mrs Margaret C Drake, Mrs M E Jones, Mr N and Mrs R Randall, Mrs A (student) Abbass, Mr Abbey Draper, Mrs J Jones, Dr P & Mrs J M Rees, Dr E H, JP Aberg, Mr F A and Mrs K A Edwards, Mrs M E R Jones, Dr T L and Mrs I Rees, Mr B H and Mrs V Ackerman, Mr O G Elias, Mrs J E Jones, Mrs Morfwyn Rees, Mr B I and Mrs S E Adams, Mrs Pamela Elias, Mrs R M Jones, Mrs V B Rees, Mr J E L OBE Aeron-Thomas, Mr P Entwistle, Dr D M Jones, Ms R M Rees, Mr W L & Pugh, Mrs E J Albert, Mr J & Mrs N and Dr M R Jones, Prof D M and Dr M E L Rees, Prof. Teresa Allan, Mr L D and Mrs E Evans, Dr D E and Dr C L Jones, Prof D T and Robbins, Mr D and Mrs P Allan, Mrs V M Evans, Dr J M and Mrs M A Tannahill, Dr M M Roberts, Mr Madoc and Mrs S Ambegaokar, Dr Uma Evans, Mr D J and Mrs E J Kellam, Dr A M P and Mrs M Roberts, Prof G M Andrews, Mr D H and Evans, Mrs I J Kempston, Mr W J A and Mrs B M Mrs D A Evans, Mr J W and Mrs S and Mrs I H Robertson, Mr Ian Armfield, Miss D M, RA Evans, Prof K T and Dr S M Kerrison, Mrs A Robertson, Prof. N R E, CBE Bartz, Mr A Evans, Mrs M D Kerton, Mr David Roy and Dr M W Baxter-Wright, Mr T R Evans, Mrs S E Knight, Mr J K Roblin, Mrs Yvette Mona and Mrs H Evans, Mrs S M Lambert, Cpt R E and Mrs R Roe, Mr D M and Mrs A Beale, Mrs H M O Evans, Mr W L Lazarus, Prof J H and Mrs M H Rogers, Mr Adrian Beechey, Mrs M E Eyres, Mrs E J, MBE Lehtovirta, Mrs G M Saer, Mr R and Mrs A Bell, Miss C T Fitz, Mrs C Jayne Lewis, The Hon R W and Mrs J Salisbury, Mr A and Dr J Benskin-Mesher, Mrs S Frazer, Ms Dorcas P (student) Lindsey, Mr R E and Dr O G M Scourfield Lewis, Mr A Bowkett, Mr S E and Gagg, Mr R D and Mrs J V Llewellyn-Davies, Mrs M E and Mrs C Brazier, Dr A L Gatehouse, Miss M Lloyd, Mrs G F Siberry, Jane Elizabeth Brett, Miss Pamela George, Mr D B L & Mrs M Lockyer, Dr P Simon, Mrs Josephine Brown, Mrs Janet S Gilligan, Ms F J Looker, Mr L H Sinnott, Mr K F Sowden, Mr J C and Mrs E Treharne, Dr D M and HONORARY MEMBERS Sparkes, Mrs J Mrs N G Spencer, Prof M S Tress, Mr David H Smith, Prof Dai Spiller, Mr A J and Mrs B E van Lierop, Dr B L and Mrs M (Arts Council of Wales) Spottiswoode, Mr J N Vickers, Mrs Ann H and Mrs M M Vining, Mr P and Mrs C G Spriggs, Mr P H Vokes, Mr D and Mrs C Spurlock. Mr K E MBE Wakley, Mrs Wimke and Mrs K Walcot, Mrs Jean M E Stafford, Mrs Doreen Walker, Miss Audrey, MBE Starkey, Ms Nora Walters, Mr G A and Mrs J M L Stephens, Ms Judy Watkins, Dr W R and Dr E G Stevenson, Mr Peter M and Webster, Mrs J Dr Ann I Wiener, Dr P C and Dr J J Stone, Mr G and Mrs A M Wilkins, Mr W and Mrs L Stout, Ms L K H William, Dr E and Mrs M Sullivan, Mr P A Williams, Miss G E M Swaffield, Mr J A and Mrs D Williams, Mrs Gwendoline Taylor, Col R A and Mrs RM Williams, Mrs Marion Telders, Miss Martina Williams, Ms Jean A Tenby Museum & Art Gallery Williams, Prof. D G & Mrs A Tester, Mrs P Wilson, Mr F J and Mrs D T Thomas, Miss A J, JP Wolfle, Dr John and Mrs E E Thomas, Mrs M V & Yapp, Mrs M H Markland, Mr E Yates, Mrs I Thompson, Dr Eileen Yeomans, Mr G Tinker, Mrs D T Young, Dr Michael H Tozer, Mr P

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A Wonderful 49 High Street, Crickhowell Original Fine Art Collection and Prints, of Blank Art Cards Ceramics and Glass, Online Fine Crafts, and in the Gallery Gifts, Jewellery, Cards

www.theblankcardcompany.co.uk images above from a new collection of art cards by Robert Macdonald www.galleryontheusk.co.uk DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

JULY - DECEMBER 2013

Saturday July 27th Art at Home, Shirenewton.

September 18th-24th Study Visit to Budapest organised by Ilse Fisher-Hayes.

Tuesday September 24th Tuesday Evening Lecture Series. Charlie Uzzell Edwards - Gallery owner and artist. The Art of the Street and what happens to it when it comes indoors. Saturday September 28th Lisvane Lunch and lecture by Clarrie Wallis, curator of Contemporary Art, Tate Britain.

October (date tba) Day visit and lunch - Art in the city of Swansea, to coincide with Art Across the City event.

Tuesday October 15th Tuesday Evening Lecture Series. Pamela Rawnsley and Claire Curneen. An overview of their Creative Wales Ambassadorial Year.

Saturday November 9th Lisvane Lunch and lecture by Robert Meyrick, From Maesteg to Morocco, the work of Christopher Williams.

Tuesday November 19th Tuesday Evening Lecture Series. Tracey Tinker, The road to abstraction: the work of David Tinker.

Further details and booking form for each bookable event (Lisvane, trips and visits) either by postal mail or email. More details about CASW activities, past and present can be found on www.casw.org.uk

27 ORIEL Q Queens Hall Gallery, Narberth SA67 7AS

tel. 01834 869454 e.mail [email protected] see website for catalogue www.orielqueenshallgallery.org.uk Open Wednesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Free Entry CASW EVENTS 2012

Attic Gallery Art and Music Evening Ash Hall Duo

28 Mary at Chatsworth

Anish Kapoor at Longside

Vienna Taliesin Swansea KOOYWOOD GALLERY

Gem by Al Saralis

Ceri Barclay Angela Farquharson Alfred Janes Gareth Parry William Selwyn Luke Barker Nathan Ford Wynne Jenkins Phil Parry Andy Short Robin Boyd Audrey Johns Dan Parry-Jones Helen Sinclair William Brown Tony Goble Glyn Jones David Pollock Matthew Snowden Jacob Buckland David Gould Martyn Jones Peter Prendergast Peter Spriggs Clive Burnell Chris Griffin David Knight Gwilym Prichard David Tinker Brendan Stuart Burns David Lloyd Griffith Alan Knight Ceri Richards Huw Tregaron Perryn Butler Alun Hemming Donald McIntyre Wilf Roberts Charles Wyatt Warren Evan Charlton Andrew Henderson James McKeown Will Roberts Ian Williams Corrie Chiswell Josef Herman Eric Malthouse Ro Rogers Sir Kyffin Williams Michael Edmonds Bev Howe Robert McPartland John Rowlands Warren Williams Malcolm Edwards Sue Hunt Carl Melegari Alan Salisbury Peter Winstanley Ken Elias Bert Isaac Liam O’Connor Mark Samuel Matthew Wood John Elwyn Dilys Jackson Stephen John Owen Al Saralis Ernest Zobole

8 Museum Place, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 2BG. Tel 029 2023 5093 www.kooywoodgallery.com Open: Tuesday to Saturday 11.30am to 6.00pm. Paintings can be purchased through an interest-free payment plan. W W W . A R T W A L E S . C O M WALES’ PREMIER GALLERIES

Claudia Williams ‘Tea in the Garden’ oil on canvas 2010 63 x 52cm

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Forthcoming exhibitions 2013 include: Kevin Sinnott Claudia Williams (& book launch) Peter Prendergast (& book launch) Keith Bowen Harry Holland John Macfarlane

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