Martin Collins & Darren Hughes Catalogue 2015

MARTIN COLLINS & DARREN HUGHES Mai / May 2015

MARTIN COLLINS & DARREN HUGHES RCA PEINTIADAU NEWYDD / NEW PAINTINGS 14 Mai / May - 7 Mehefin / June 2015

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MARTIN COLLINS Martin Collins was born in 1941 in the Cotswolds. He studied Fine Art at Gloucestershire College of Art and Hornsey College of Art, London in the 1960’s. Since then, in a career spanning teaching, cartography and writing books on walking, Martin managed to maintain a level of artistic output, with exhibitions in the Midlands, the North of England and Cornwall. He moved with his family to the Conwy Valley in the mid-1980’s. For the past decade and a half he has painted full-time, concentrating almost exclusively on Welsh landscape, predominantly Snowdonia and Anglesey, but also Pembrokeshire.

Martin’s work is the result of innumerable forays into the hills and coastline of North Wales, always with a keen eye for dramatic plays of light and shade, the rich textures of the land echoed by the use of impasto, the vibrancy of colours (even when skies are grey!) and key compositional viewpoints that, by adding new perspectives to the paintings, often differentiate them entirely from conventional ‘views’.

Martin has enjoyed a number of successful exhibitions at both the Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff and Oriel Tegfryn, and his work is widely sought after by lovers of wild places in this wonderful region of the country.

DARREN HUGHES Darren Hughes was born in Bangor in 1970. He trained at Falmouth School of Art & Design from 1990 to 1993 and completed a Post Graduate Degree at Cyprus School of Art, Paphos in 1994. Darren lives and works in North Wales and is one of the leading figures of the new generation of Welsh landscape painters.

Darren says of his work: “My work has always had at its base a reference to working directly in the landscape and also increasingly to photography. Sometimes the photographs are found images, but mainly they are images I’ve taken myself while working outside or while walking. They act as a catalyst or starting point, perhaps a basic composition for a painting or a way of mapping out the image in my mind. These images are a way of referring back to an experience or memory almost upon which much of my work is based.”

MARTIN COLLINS

ABOVE LLYN GERIONYDD, SNOWDONIA / UWCHLAW LLYN GERIONYDD, ERYRI oil on canvas board 2014 40 x 50cm

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ABOVE LLYN YR ARDDU, SNOWDONIA / UWCHLAW LLYN YR ARDDU, ERYRI oil on canvas board 2015 30 x 20cm

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AUTUMN FIELD / MAES YR HYDREF oil on canvas 2014 40 x 50cm

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CAERNARFON CASTLE / CASTELL CAERNARFON oil on linen 2014 50 x 70cm

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CRIB GOCH FROM / O GLYDER FACH oil on canvas board 2015 36 x 46cm

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DEEP WINTER, SNOWDON FROM GLASLYN / GAEAF DWFN, YR WYDDFA O GLASLYN oil on canvas 2015 30 x 40cm

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INTO CWM GLAS, SNOWDON / TUAG AT CWM GLAS, Y WYDDFA oil on canvas 2015 50 x 50cm

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LLIWEDD FROM SNOWDON / LLIWEDD O’R WYDDFA oil on canvas 2015 30 x 40cm

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TOWARDS THE MOELWYNS, SNOWDONIA / TUAG AT Y MOELWYNION, ERYRI oil on canvas 2014 30 x 40cm

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PENMON POINT, ANGLESEY / PENMON, YNYS Mﾃ年 oil on canvas board 2014 25 x 20cm

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SNOWDONIA SUNSET / MACHLUD ERYRI, RHOBELL FAWR oil on linen 2015 60 x 90cm

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TO CARNEDD LLEWELYN, SNOWDONIA / TUAG AT CARNEDD LLEWELYN, ERYRI oil on canvas 2015 30 x 30cm

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TOWARDS CWM GWYNANT FROM GLYDER FACH, SNOWDONIA / TUAG AT CWM GWYNANT O GLYDER FACH, ERYRI oil on canvas 2013 40 x 80cm

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TO SNOWDON FROM ABER MENAI / TUAG AT Y WYDDFA O ABER MENAI oil on canvas 2014 40 X 50cm

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WHITE ARCH, HOLY ISLAND, ANGLESEY / BWA GWYN, YNYS CYBI, YNYS MON oil on canvas board 2014 30 x 40cm

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WINTER SUN / HAUL Y GAEAF, AFON CONWY oil on linen 2015 50 x 70cm

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MENAI BRIDGE, ANGLESEY, EVENING LIGHT / GOLAU NOS, PORTHAETHWY, YNYS Mﾃ年, oil on canvas 2015 20 x 50cm

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LLYN CRAFNANT, SNOWDONIA / ERYRI oil on canvas 2015 15 x 15cm

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CRIB GOCH, SNOWDON / CRIB GOCH, Y WYDDFA acrylic on card 2015 15 x 15cm

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NANTLLE RIDGE FROM MOEL HEBOG / CRIBAU NANTLLE O MOEL HEBOG oil on linen 2015 40 x 80cm

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THE CROSSING, LLANDDWYN ISLAND, ANGLESEY / Y GROESFAN, YNYS LLANDDWYN, YNYS Mﾃ年 oil on canvas 2015 30 x 30cm

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THE PIER / Y PIER, LLANDUDNO oil on canvas 2014 13 x 18cm

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DARREN HUGHES RCA

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LIGHT OVER DOLBADARN / GOLAU DROS DOLBADARN oil and acrylic on canvas 2015 101 x 101cm

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AUTUMN OGWEN VALLEY / HYDREF DYFFRYN OGWEN mixed media on paper 2015 43 x 42cm

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STUDY FOR LANDSCAPE WITH DEAD HORSE / ASTUDIAETH TIRWEDD GYDA CEFFYL WEDI MARW mixed media on paper 2015 19 x 27cm

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DWYGYFYLCHI oil and acrylic on paper on board 2015 35 x 103cm

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NANT PERIS mixed media on paper 2015 47 x 74cm

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TRYFAN mixed media on paper 2015 45 x 42cm

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RAIN AND LIGHT OVER DOLBADARN / GLAW A GOLAU DROS DOLBADARN ( TRIPTYCH ) mixed media on paper 2015 90 x 63cm

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HAWTHORN / DRAENEN WEN mixed media on paper 2015 43 x 71cm

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LIGHT OVER THE STRAIT / GOLAU DROS Y CULFOR mixed media on paper 2015 15 x 25cm

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OGWEN VALLEY, WINTER / GAEAF, DYFFRYN OGWEN mixed media on paper 2015 41 x 51cm

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AURORA / AWRORA mixed media on paper on board 2015 40 x 50cm

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TRAWSFYNYDD STUDY / ASTUDIAETH TRAWSFYNYDD mixed media on paper 2015 12 x 27cm

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TRYFAN STUDY (NIGHT INTO DAY) / ASTUDIAETH TRYFAN ( NOS I DDYDD) mixed media on paper on board 2015 24 x18cm

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PLAYING FIELDS / CAEAU CHWARAE acrylic on canvas 2015 40 x 100cm

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WHITE FARM HOUSE, OGWEN / FFERMDY GWYN, OGWEN mixed media on paper on board 2015 24 x 18cm

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TRYFAN, LATE AUTUMN / TRYFAN, DIWEDD YR HYDREF mixed media on paper 2015 102 x 85cm

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DRIFTING RAIN / GLAW YN LLUWCHIO mixed media on paper 2015 19 x 37cm

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BREAKING LIGHT OVER THE CARNEDDAU / GOLAU DROS Y CARNEDDAU mixed media on paper 2014 43 x 71cm

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PEDR’S HOUSE / TŶ PEDR etching 2015 (edition of 15) 9 x 12cm

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ORME RALLY / RALI GOGARTH etching 2015 (edition of 15) 10 x 12cm

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FROM HAZEL’S HOUSE / O DŶ HAZEL etching 2015 (edition of 15) 8 x 19cm

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BLAENAU etching 2015 (edition of 15) 7 x 12cm

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