Eloise Govier’s new collection ‘Towns and Other Stories’ will go on show at the Albany Gallery Cardiff for the month of June. The artist will exhibit alongside Colin J Davies.
Ceibwr, En Plein Air II, 40cm x 40cm, acrylic on canvas.
Exhibition of Contemporary Welsh Art and Photography at the London Welsh Centre, 157-163 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8UE.
Opening times of the exhibition:
Saturday 29th March 10am-5pm
Sunday 30th March 10am-4pm
‘Interweaving Resources: From Economic Hegemony towards a New Understanding of Resources’ conference at Ruhr University Bochum.
Conference introduction:
‘The term “resource,” derived from the Latin resurgere (“to rise again”), has evolved significantly over time, encompassing a wide range of meanings across disciplines. Often understood through an economic lens, resources are traditionally seen as external entities to be studied, appropriated, and exploited for human benefit. This perspective frames humans as active agents, with the material world as passive receivers.
However, recent theoretical developments propose a relational perspective, viewing resources as deeply embedded in social, cultural, and material networks. In this view, resources are not only socially and culturally constructed but also inherently active, with physical properties and material affordances that shape interactions and outcomes.
This transdisciplinary shift calls for a holistic understanding of resources, addressing complex, non-linear causalities, such as those tied to climate change. Resources are never isolated; their use generates unforeseen societal challenges and opportunities, such as economic inequalities, unsustainable practices, and innovation races. Some approaches even dismantle the human-resource dualism, suggesting a flat ontology where all entities—human and non-human—share agency within entangled relationships.
Do we still need the utilitarian concept of resources, or should we rethink them entirely? Revisiting the notion of “living” resources may inspire science to connect material properties and their sensory qualities to humans and other species, deepening our understanding of (geo)resource interdependencies’. Source
Eloise is the invited discussant for session 5 ‘Resource Materiality’
Programme
Waiting in readiness? Reflections on resources and abandoned things Keynote
Bjørnar Julius Olsen (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)
Resources embodied
Constance von Rüden (Ruhr University Bochum)
How resources become practical through active interwovenness
Frank Hillebrandt (FernUniversität in Hagen)
The social and comparative dimensions of resource use: Examples from Africa
Thomas Widlok (Universität zu Köln)
Winter Showcase exhibition 15.12.24-14.1.25
The ‘Artists in Dialogue’ exhibition is the second partnership between Makers Guild Wales and Celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painting. The exhibition launched in September 2024 at the Makers Guild Wales in Cardiff and now moves to Aberystwyth University’s Tessa Sidey Gallery, where the exhibition will reach further audiences in Wales.
Six craft makers and six contemporary painters currently working in Wales were invited to create partnerships/pairings – beginning a dialogue about their professional art practices over the months leading to the exhibition at Craft in the Bay.
This exciting project brings together makers & artists across Wales, some of whom had never met previously. Each has found shared interests, inspiration and enthusiasm for stepping outside their ‘comfort zones’ to explore new approaches to their work, new materials and making techniques. Their creative conversations, studio visits and sharing materials has led to very exciting developments with their artwork as well as many new friendships with fellow creatives!
Artists ‘pairings’ include:
Beate Gegenwart & Catrin Webster
Clare Revera & Flora McLachlan
Helen Higgins & James Donovan
Pamela Jones & Jacqueline Alkema
Ann Catrin Evans & Karin Mear
Ruth Shelley & Eloise Govier
Co-curators: Beate Gegenwart, Jacqueline Alkema, Charlotte Kingston
Makers Guild Wales is delighted to be partnering with Celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painting. 15 other galleries have joined in this celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painting - their website shows the other galleries and the dates of their special exhibitions.
Eloise Govier will be participating in the RNLI ‘A Winter Celebration of Welsh Art’ at Plas Llangoedmor, Ceredigion.
Location: Plas Llangoedmor SA43 2LB
Date: 08/11/2024 - 09/11/2024
‘Plas Llangoedmor, Cardigan will be open for the second annual ‘Winter Celebration of Welsh Art’. Come and meet globally renowned artists based in Wales exhibiting original art, prints and sculpture ranging from four figure investment pieces to affordable stocking fillers and unique Christmas gifts. Look out for our exclusive ‘blue bauble’ event only offers. Profit from the ticket sales will be donated to Poppit RNLI’. Source
8th/9th November 2024
Three sessions each date
Tickets only £6 (+ £1.21 Eventbrite Admin Fee) admission includes a drink and mince pie.
For further details visit: Oriel Canfas, Aberteifi
Plas Llangoedmor, Llangoedmor, Aberteifi, Ceredigion, SA43 2LB
Eloise is participating in the ‘Artists in Dialogue – A Celebration of Contemporary Welsh Painting’ (working title) exhibition curated by Beate Gegenwart and Jacqueline Alkema in collaboration with the Makers Guild Wales and in partnership with the 2024 Celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painting.
In this project (which culminates in an exhibition at the Makers Guild in Wales, Cardiff), 6 Guild members are paired with contemporary painters and invited to form artistic partnerships where dialogue and exchange (in its broadest creative sense) encourages an interchange and input into their respective creative practices.
The painter and guild member pairs are:
Catrin Webster and Beate Gegenwart
Eloise Govier and Ruth Shelley
Flora McLachlan and Clare Revera
James Donovan and Helen Higgins
Jacqueline Alkema and Pamela Jones
Karin Mear and Ann Catrin Evans
The event is in partnership with Celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painting (CoWCP).
The Makers Guild Wales, Craft in the Bay, is based at The Flourish, Lloyd George Avenue, Cardiff CF10 4QH.
‘The Makers Guild in Wales is a national applied art and craft membership organisation based in Cardiff, Wales. The organisation exists to engage and inspire audiences as a centre of excellence for Craft and Applied Art, and to champion Welsh Craft Makers. Our award winning gallery, Craft in the Bay is located on the “Flourish” in Cardiff Bay, opposite Wales Millennium Centre and close to the iconic Senedd Building. Our gallery is the regional hub for Craft and Applied Art in the Capital of Wales’. (source)
Eloise comments ‘I am honoured to be invited to participate in this exhibition and excited to be working with artist and guild member Ruth Shelley whose incredible, award-winning glass pieces are objects of pure beauty. The interplay of light, colour and form – the areas of transparency, opacity and the stretching of colour – are fascinating, and I look forward to learning more about her creative process as the project develops over the coming months. Many thanks to the curators and the Makers Guild Wales for the warm welcome to the project. I am looking forward to developing new paintings in response to the project’.
Detail, Y Wal Goch, watercolour on paper, 2024.
Eloise will be exhibiting her piece ‘Y Wal Goch’ at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Pontypridd 2024.
Mae Eloise yn arddangos darlun newydd yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol ym mhontypridd 2024.
The watercolour is part of a new collection of drawings and watercolours called ‘Y Bobol / The People’
‘Dwi’n falch iawn i cael y cyfle i’r arddangos fy ngwaith yn y Lle Celf. Ysbrydoliaeth am yr darlun wedi dod o berfformiad o'r Y Fari Lwyd. Yn yr darlun dwi wedi defnyddio materiol eitha newydd i fi: dyfrlliw. Mae’r paentiad ar bapur, ac yn darlunio foment o mwynhad, dathliad ac cyfeillgarwch (ac ofn, os chi edrychwch yn ofalus!). Dwi’n edrych ymlaen i weld a chlywed beth mae pobl yn meddwl amdano y llun’.
Detail, Y Wal Goch, watercolour on paper, 2024.
Abercastle study, 15cm x 15 cm, acrylic on board.
Eloise will be exhibiting in the Albany Gallery’s 2024 Summer exhibition. Link
Address: First and Second Floors, 74b Albany Rd, Cardiff CF24 3RS
T: 029 2078 9171
E: info@albanygallery.com
The Albany Gallery is a ‘contemporary art gallery established in 1965. Just a short walk from the City centre the monthly exhibition programme showcases paintings, sculpture and ceramics from predominantly Welsh or Wales-based artists, both established and emerging’. Source
Fishguard Art Society at Oriel y Parc 2024
Eloise is participating in the Fishguard Art Society group show at Oriel y Parc. She will be exhibiting her 2023 painting ‘Home Time’ alongside a pastel embellished monoprint called ‘Abereiddi Cottages’ and a selection of Fine Art Giclée Prints. The exhibition runs daily until Sunday 2nd June 2024.
‘For over 30 years, the aim of the Fishguard Arts Society has been to promote and support artistic endeavours among local people. The members have a wide range of talent from sculptors, potters, painters, fabric workers, printers, photographers, musicians, poets, film makers and storytellers’. Source
‘Oriel y Parc is owned and run by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority and is the home of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales in Pembrokeshire’. Source
Abereiddi Cottages, pastel embellished monoprint, 2023.
The ‘Impressions of Wales’ exhibition will be on show at Oriel Glasfryn in Caerwys, Flintshire from 5th April to the 6th May 2023.
Eloise will be exhibiting alongside Jane Evans (gyotaku prints), Corinne Joy (jewellery), Debbie Nairn (ceramics), Gareth Hugh Davies (paintings), Deanne Doddington Mizen RCA (paintings), Sian McGill (paintings), Ed Ap (ceramics).
Eloise will be showing 12 paintings including ‘St Govan’s Chapel’ (as seen above), acrylic on canvas, 50 cm x 70 cm, £1600.
Oriel Glasfryn is owned by Dave and Lise Roberts and opened its doors in the spring of 2022. Dave and Lise note that they are the only independent gallery in North East Wales and ‘take pride in the fact that all of our artists are from Wales’ (source).
For more information about the gallery see here.
Newport Bay, Bae Trafdraeth, 50 cm x 70 cm, acrylic on canvas.
Eloise Govier and other artists from Wales will be exhibiting their work at the annual Exhibition of Contemporary Welsh art and photography at the London Welsh Centre on the 17th and 18th February 2024. The event is open to the public on Saturday and Sunday from 11:00am - 5:00pm. The exhibition is part of the Wales Week London celebrations.
Address: London 157-163 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8UE.
Bydd Eloise Govier ac artistiaid eraill o Gymru yn arddangos eu gwaith nhw yn y Canolfan Llundain Cymraeg, mae’r arddangsofa yn rhan o’r dathliadau am Wythnos Cymru yn Llundain. Dewch lawr i’r arddangosfa cyhoeddus ac cael croeso cynnes yn yr canolfan. Mae Eloise yn edrych ymlaen i weld chi gyd.
Aberaeron Harbour (Purple), Monoprint with pastel, 160 gsm, 29 cm x 42 cm.
Oriel Canfas Gallery, Manchester House, Grosvenor Hill, Cardigan SA43 1HY.
Telephone: 01239 614344
Email: info@canfas.co.uk
Opening times: Monday – Saturday 10:30am - 4:30pm
Paintings by Eloise Govier at Plas Llangoedmor. Image credit: Here
24th and 25th November and 1st and 2nd December 3pm - 7pm
Plas Llangoedmor, Cardigan, SA432LB.
Ticketed event.
‘Exhibition of 10+ artists hosted in a mansion dressed for the festive season’.
All ticket sales for the exhibition will go to the Cardigan Lifeboat Station.
‘Sea Watch’, acrylic on canvas.
Eloise Govier will be exhibiting works at the Bath Contemporary Artist’s Fair. Please pop by to see new artworks.
Free Admission
Green Park Station
Green Park Road
Bath, BA1 1JB
United Kingdom
Green Park Station is less than a 10 minute walk from Bath Spa Railway and Bath Bus Station.
Fishguard Art Society / Cymdeithas Gelfyddydau Abergwaun
Eloise Govier has artworks on show at the society’s annual exhibition at Tregwynt Mansion, Castlemorris, S62 5UU.
Open daily 10:30AM – 4:30PM.
Barley Saturday, Acrylic on canvas, 40 cm x 50 cm.
The Hamlet, pastel embellished monoprint on paper.
‘Abereiddi (Cloud and Village')’, acrylic on canvas, 51.5 cm x 51.5 cm.
A new collection of 20 paintings by Eloise Govier will go on show this summer at the Albany Gallery. The ‘Gartref / At Home’ collection is inspired by the works of the late John Knapp-Fisher; over the last year Eloise followed his footsteps to Abercastell, Mathry and Abereiddi – it was Abereiddi that held her gaze and a number of paintings in the collection are inspired by the hamlet.
Eloise Govier, Penelope Timmis exhibitions with Harry Holland paintings on show at the Albany Gallery, Cardiff.
74b Albany Road, Cardiff CF24 3RS.
T: 029 20789171
E: info@albanygallery.com
Curator: Eloise Govier
Exhibition / Project description
‘A Basic Unit of Reality’, curated by Dr Eloise Govier, brings together a group of artists who individually explore, interrogate, and challenge how reality is seen, felt, touched and understood. Cameron Lings offers data-driven sculptures, including a piece that captures 100-rolls of a six-sided dice. Lily Horner paints shadows falling on the canvas, capturing the gentle and immediate tones of muted light. Tony Bowen’s photographs of Bartholomew Square capture the residues of a glut of ceremonies back in 2021; ‘stormettes’ of confetti and petals embellish the ground denoting that the party has moved on... Matt Lee’s film the ‘Presence of Absence’ inverts 3D and 2D space through the creation of an animated shape that eclipses the urbanscapes available within and from a gated community in Yelahanka on the suburban outskirts of Bengaluru. Alice Quarterman’s pieces ‘O’ and ‘Elastic’ foreground rhythm and experience, utilising actions or traces to challenge calendar time whilst querying the distinction between the actual and in/actual. Charlie Hurcombe’s sculptures, such as ‘Factory Variant’, offer colourful layerings of perspex, formica, acrylic and vinyl that draw together the industrial and the everyday to create a unique medium and pattern that expresses fragmented realities. Frank Waterton’s work evokes planetary surfaces; devoid of life, the texture and colour remind the viewer of the potential and actual realities without human and thingly presences. Maryanne Royle’s innovative creative process pushes the photographic medium and interrogates the pixel by creating analogue prints via the light emitted from a smartphone screen. Yole Quintero’s chromogenic prints capture glitched words entangled with the pandemic; the artworks are the product of an iterative process that forefronts computer mediated communication and worlds. Phil Lambert’s meditative works utilise single colour palettes and natural materials; ‘Square Root Progression’ queries the relationship between mathematics and philosophy, and the validity and role of the straight line and compass to mediate natural worlds. Paul Hartley explores seeing and focusing on objects in a literal sense, whilst capturing the complexity of information and the fluidity of the world through mark-making. Grafik 2.1 embraces a CMYK palette to create an intriguing monochromatic aesthetic that addresses the act of abstraction whilst alluding to the subtle layering of incidental trace.
Fringe Arts Bath (FaB)
Fringe Arts Bath (FaB) Festival provides a platform for early-career and emerging Curators & Artists to test ideas beyond the gallery-based arts scene. There are 17 other exhibition call-outs forming the FaB Festival programme, coming to Bath, UK, from 26th May to 11th June 2023. Discover them all here: www.fringeartsbath.co.uk
Mwnt Y Llwybr / The Path, Acrylic on Canvas, 40 cm x 40cm.
Eloise Govier will be exhibiting with Fishguard Art Society at Picton Castle, Haverfordwest.
‘Bydd Cymdeithas Gelfyddydau Abergwaun yn arddagos yng Nghastell Picton dros Ebrill ac Mai. Dwi’n wrth fy modd i arddangosfa gyda’r gymdeithas yn y lle hyfred’.
Eloise Govier will be participating in the 5th Annual Art Exhibition at the London Welsh Centre as part of Wales Week in London.
Bydd Eloise Govier yn arddangos yn y Canolfan Llundain Cymraeg mewn Wythnos Cymru yn Llundain. Bydd artistiaid arall wrth Gymru yn yr arddangsofa.
Archaeological Dialogues cover image.
Govier, E. (2022). For the record. Archaeological Dialogues, 29(2), 120-122. doi:10.1017/S1380203822000290
Anthropology & Art is a new open-access publication series edited by the RAI Anthropology of Art Committee. The series stems from the international conference Art, Materiality and Representation organized by the RAI in collaboration with the British Museum and the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2018. Its aims are to make available to a wide audience works that engage with the connections between visual, material, aural and other expressive human practices and the lived worlds in which they take place from an anthropologically informed perspective.
Royal Anthropological Institute. Anthropology & Art ISSN 2634-8004
Volume 6 ‘Socio-Creativity and the Neolithic’ by Eloise Govier PhD.
The rise of Symmetrical Archaeology has subtly recast archaeology as the study of things and not the study of the past or past peoples. This new description of the archaeological endeavour is often met with criticism. This paper continues in the critical vein but embraces a different strategy of engagement. Here, second-wave Symmetrical Archaeology is brought to the fore: its historical development explored, its methodology outlined, its current theoretical basis assessed. Part critique, part defence, I consider the logical underpinning of the second-wave, focusing on ontology and agency. Utilizing Levi Bryant’s ontic principle, I attend to these two issues and frame this style of archaeology as Pre-critical Archaeology. A caveat seems necessary: whilst I spend time with Symmetrical Archaeology in this paper, that does not mean I am a convert. Rather, my ambition here is to see things from the point of view of a Symmetrical archaeologist.
Govier, E. (2022). Pre-critical archaeology. Speculative realism and symmetrical archaeology. Archaeological Dialogues, 1-12. doi:10.1017/S1380203822000241
Light and Shade at Bute Park, 60 cm x 60 cm, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 2022.
Group Summer Exhibition at the Albany Gallery, Cardiff.
74b Albany Road, Cardiff CF24 3RS T: 029 2048 7158 E: info@albanygallery.com
Gallery open: Tuesday-Saturday 10-5pm and Sunday 11am-4pm
‘Y Nos’ solo exhibition of paintings by Eloise Govier at Oriel Canfas Gallery, Aberteifi.
Eloise Govier is renowned for her unique colourful paintings, however, in this collection we see a movement to a more selective palette of colours featuring turquoise, Prussian blue, and ultramarine.
‘When I began painting the collection I was searching for the perfect turquoise, the paintings have slightly different accents of the colour and they seem to respond and work with each other. When I started painting it was not my intention to create a whole collection in this palette, but after two paintings I was surprised and intrigued by how powerful the combination was and how it was building in strength with every painting'.
Exhibition catalogue: Here
Manchester House, Grosvenor Hill, Cardigan SA43 1HY.
Dydd Sul yn y Parc / Sunday in the Park
Fishguard Art Society / Cymdeithas Celfyddydau Abergwaun
The Fishguard Arts Society is a registered charity that was established in 1992. Their aim is to take the arts to the wider community, to improve and encourage arts opportunities and to help develop talents, skills and creative ability across all sections of society.
An exhibition of members works is on show at the Graham Sutherland Galleries, at Picton Castle, for the month of May.
‘Dydd Sul yn y Parc’ and ‘Tenby’ by Eloise Govier are on show at the exhibition.
More information can be found here Here
‘Stroll in the Park’, Fine Art Giclée Print. (inspired by Bute Park, Cardiff).
Exhibition of Contemporary Welsh Art at the London Welsh Centre,
157-163 Gray’s Inn Road London WC1X 8UE
18th and 19th February 2022
Saturday 10:00 - 5:00pm
Sunday: 10:00 - 4:00 pm
Book your tickets: Ticket Booking Page
Directions from King’s Cross station: exit King’s Cross station at one of the Euston Road exits (A501). Head East along Euston Road towards Pentonville Road. Before Euston Road turns into Pentonville Road bear right onto Gray’s Inn Road. Continue along Gray’s Inn Road until you reach the London Welsh Centre at number 157 (which is on the right hand side of the street). Look out for the Welsh flag outside the Centre.
‘Aberaeron Sunset’, 2021, monotype and pastel.
Paintings by Eloise Govier are now available from one of Wales' most successful and long-established privately owned galleries: the Albany Gallery, Cardiff. A selection of new works will be on show as part of the Winter Show 2021.
About The Albany Gallery
The Albany Gallery was established in 1965 and is recognised as one of Wales' most successful and long-established privately owned commercial art galleries. The monthly exhibition programme of leading Welsh and British artists provides a showcase for solo and group shows in a variety of media. Exhibitors include Royal Academicians, members of the Royal Cambrian Academy, the New English Art Club and the Society of Women Artists.
If you wish to purchase a painting or check availability please contact the gallery on 029 2048 7158 or email info@albanygallery.com
The gallery subscribe to the Collector Plan.
The Albany Gallery
74b Albany Road
Cardiff
CF24 3RS
Call: 029 2048 7158
Email : info@albanygallery.com
Bute Park, acrylic and gouache on paper, 2021.
Oriel Myrddin:
“Cyfres o ddosbarthiadau meistr gyda phedair seren newydd ym maes paentio//
A series of masterclasses with four rising stars of Welsh painting”
About this event
Ar gyfer oedolion a phobl ifanc 16+ oed // For adults and young people aged 16+
£40 per person
Yng Ngardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol Cymru gydag Eloise Govier // At the National Botanic Garden of Wales with Eloise Govier
Bydd y gweithdy hwn yn cynnwys lluniadu a phaentio yn yr awyr agored yng Ngardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol Cymru. Bydd y grŵp yn archwilio gwahanol ffyrdd o ymateb i'r dirwedd gan ehangu paletau lliwiau a chynnwys ymatebion emosiynol i liw. Bydd Eloise yn rhannu'r ysbryd y tu ôl i'w gwaith ac yn cynnig ffyrdd unigryw o ddatblygu lluniadu a phaentio wrth ymdeimlo a chyfathrebu â'r dirwedd.
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This workshop will cover drawing and painting ‘en plein air’ at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. The group will explore different ways of responding to the landscape expanding colour palettes and incorporating emotional responses to colour. Eloise will share the spirit behind her work and offer unique ways of developing drawing and painting whilst absorbing and corresponding with the landscape.
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Bydd yr holl weithdai yn yr awyr agored a/neu mewn mannau dan do sydd wedi'u hawyru'n dda ac yn cadw at ganllawiau cyfredol Covid 19.
Mae pris tocynnau yn cynnwys mynediad a pharcio yng Ngardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol Cymru.
Rhaid archebu lle drwy Eventbrite.
Cysylltwch â ni i gael rhagor o fanylion: emlaurens@sirgar.gov.uk
Bydd egwyl ginio fer. Mae caffi ar y safle neu dewch â phecyn cinio.
Gwisgwch yn briodol ar gyfer y tywydd a'r tir a dewch â digon o ddŵr os yw'n boeth.
Os hoffech gyflwyno eich gwaith i'r Arddangosfa Agored, mae canllawiau cyflwyno llawn ar ein gwefan: www.orielmyrddingallery.co.uk
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All workshops will be outdoors and/or in well ventilated indoor spaces and adhere to current Covid 19 guidelines.
Ticket price includes entry and parking for the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
Please get in touch for further details emlaurens@carmarthenshire.gov.uk
There will be a short lunch break, there is a café onsite or bring a packed lunch.
Please dress appropriately for the weather and terrain with plenty of water if it is hot.
If you would like to submit your work to the Open Exhibition full submission guidelines are on our website www.orielmyrddingallery.co.uk
‘Mae’n dawel yn Aberporth’, oil on canvas, 50cm x 70 cm. 2020.
Paintings by Eloise Govier are now available from one of Wales' most successful and long-established privately owned galleries: the Albany Gallery, Cardiff.
About The Albany Gallery
The Albany Gallery was established in 1965 and is recognised as one of Wales' most successful and long-established privately owned commercial art galleries. The monthly exhibition programme of leading Welsh and British artists provides a showcase for solo and group shows in a variety of media. Exhibitors include Royal Academicians, members of the Royal Cambrian Academy, the New English Art Club and the Society of Women Artists.
If you wish to purchase a painting or check availability please contact the gallery on 029 2048 7158 or email info@albanygallery.com
The gallery subscribe to the Collector Plan.
The Albany Gallery
74b Albany Road
Cardiff
CF24 3RS
Call: 029 2048 7158
Email : info@albanygallery.com
Current Exhibition: Summer Show 2021 (1st July 2021 to 14th August 2021)
‘Tenby’, acrylic on canvas, 50cm x 40cm. 2021.
‘Tenby - Ar lan yr Môr’, acrylic on canvas, 40 cm x 50cm. 2021.
‘Looking over the railings, Roath Park’, oil on canvas, 50 cm x 60 cm. 2020.