About me
My work
My medium
My medium
My work is rooted in the Welsh landscape where I live. Its hillsides are hung with ancient woods and lined with sheep tracks. Every day I walk with my dogs in this landscape and have come to love it in all its different moods and seasons. From the heights above the valley I can see the Black Mountains and the Brecon Beacons which have formed a backdrop to my life.
My medium
My medium
My medium
I make detailed drawings in crayon, pen and ink of animals in the landscape.
My inspiration
Exhibitions/collections
Exhibitions/collections
Although I feel an affinity for all animals, I return to sheep again and again. It’s not just the soft colours of the fleece and the warm bulk of them, but the ancient bony heads and the look in the eye that exert a hold on me. There is also something about their being in the landscape that is reassuring and timeless.
I love the sight of a
Although I feel an affinity for all animals, I return to sheep again and again. It’s not just the soft colours of the fleece and the warm bulk of them, but the ancient bony heads and the look in the eye that exert a hold on me. There is also something about their being in the landscape that is reassuring and timeless.
I love the sight of a flock moving slowly and eternally across a Welsh hillside scattered with hawthorn trees.
My drawings celebrate their unwavering gaze and presence.
Exhibitions/collections
Exhibitions/collections
Exhibitions/collections
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
New Works
'HEFTED, A SENSE OF PLACE'
3-23 November 2024
Fosse Gallery
The Square, Stow on the Wold,
Gloucestershire GL54 1AF
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Hay on Wye Castle Cafe Show
April-June 2025
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Ffyn Y Parc, Llandudno
Solo show alongside gallery Christmas Exhibition
28 November - 20 December 2025
Work is available at Holly Johnson Ant
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
New Works
'HEFTED, A SENSE OF PLACE'
3-23 November 2024
Fosse Gallery
The Square, Stow on the Wold,
Gloucestershire GL54 1AF
.
Hay on Wye Castle Cafe Show
April-June 2025
.
Ffyn Y Parc, Llandudno
Solo show alongside gallery Christmas Exhibition
28 November - 20 December 2025
Work is available at Holly Johnson Antiques in Knutsford and from the Wessex Gallery in Melbourne, Australia.
My work is held in collections at Alcuin College, York; Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth; Dyfed County Hall; Newport Museum and Art Gallery and the Somerset Museum of Rural Life. It also features in many private collections including that of HRH King Charles III.