ABOUT GWYNETH .C.ART

Gwyneth is north Wales based artist and is inspired by the native landscapes. Her work is not a pictorial image of a location but rather comes from a spontaneous reaction to the environment through an often unplanned process, as the work develops and reveals itself.

As an artist I am lucky enough to live in the beautiful Machno valley and its ever-evolving landscape . Since moving there in 1982 it continues to feed  my inspiration ,my muse as it were .

My art was until 2020 was purely representational both in landscapes and portraits though abstract art always fascinated me , then during lockdown I took an online abstract art course and is the art journey I am now committed to .

My paintings are of special places  to me and based on  photographs or plein air pieces I have done on location. My goal is to achieve a degree of abstraction  by working  intuitively, usually beginning with no plan or intention in mind, other than having chosen a colour palette. I suspect these colours reflect my mood at the time. I like to add layer upon layer, sometimes removing as much paint as I add, until something emerges that resonates with my thinking brain. Sometimes what emerges pleases me; sometimes it doesn’t – in which case, I start over! 

I work mainly with acrylic paint, sometimes incorporating other media, such as collage, ink, pencil and pastels. I began my art making by experimenting on paper, but soon found that I love to scratch and scrape into paint and sand back surfaces, to generate a ‘backstory’ for each painting, so now I work mainly on wood and canvas. 

   Why I paint ? I paint because painting enables me to access and to express a part of myself that feels inaccessible and inexpressible through other means of communication. While I’m sometimes unsure about what a particular painting might be ‘saying’ (and am happy to leave interpretation to others), I do have a sense that painting is a way for me to connect my inner world with the outer world.