Maureen Davies | Patrick Gibbs | Gareth Parry
16th - 30th
September 2023
Gareth Parry · Dusk, Snowdonia · oil on canvas · 20 x 24 in.
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Maureen Davies | Patrick Gibbs | Gareth Parry
16th – 30th September 2023
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Born in 1952, Maureen Davies studied art at the St. Alban’s School of Art, followed by a degree in Textile Design at the Central School of Art and Design in London. Over the last decade, she has exhibited widely in the south of England and at the Mall Galleries in London.
Maureen became a member of the SWA in 2011 and received the Princess Michael of Kent watercolour award at the Open Exhibition of the Mall Galleries. In 2007, she took the winning entry in the International Competition for the Society for All Artists and won the Frank Herring Award for The Pastel Society.
Her current work is concerned primarily with sunlight and with the way it transforms the landscape into colours and patterns. She has drawn inspiration from many diverse locations, different times of day and the changing seasons – winter sun flickering through trees or the evening sun at harvest time.
Maureen works in a variety of media including collage, watercolour, pastel and gouache and more recently oil on canvas. Some works are literal in their interpretation, some are more abstract, but all share a strong focus on vibrant colour.
Maureen Davies lives and works at Rockbourne in Hampshire. The Wykeham Gallery now regularly exhibits her work.
Maureen Davies
Majorcan Spring · oil on canvas · 12 x 12 in.
Maureen Davies
Bluebells in the Sun · pastel and gouache · 22 x 25 in.
Patrick Gibbs was born in London in 1959. He says that his art career started promisingly when he won a pencil-case in a primary school painting competition. He later studied at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Magdalen College, Oxford where, despite the best efforts of the tutors to turn him into an Abstract Expressionist painter, he painted mostly portraits and figures.
After university Patrick lived in Germany for a year, working on building sites and teaching English, before deciding that he wanted to be a painter. He bought an old van, filled it with art materials and spent the next few years driving around Europe teaching himself to paint landscapes. The highlight of Patrick’s travels was a year spent in Tarquinia, a beautiful medieval village north of Rome. Here he devoted himself to painting almost everything he saw financing his time by drawing street portraits.
Back in London, after a brief spell of teaching Art in schools, Patrick decided to paint full time. Since then he has become known for his carefully observed and emotive paintings. Inspiration for his paintings comes from his extensive travels around the world. He excels at painting everyday scenes in exotic places such as Cuba, Madagascar, Kerala or Zanzibar, but he is also an accomplished painter of portraits and landscapes. He paints whatever inspires him and the result is a collection of artwork of outstanding quality and variety.
Patrick has a large following of loyal art collectors always vying for his work and he has exhibited in many of England’s leading art galleries as well as many galleries in America.
Patrick Gibbs Street Scene with Washing Lines, Havana · acrylic on board · 28 x 43 in.
Patrick Gibbs Mother and Daughter in a Boat, Kerala · oil on board · 20 x 14 in.
Gareth Parry was born in the slate quarrying town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales, in 1951. After leaving school he went on to study at the Manchester College of Art in the late 1960’s. Following that, he worked at a local mine for two years before starting to paint once again.
For a long time he worked mostly on private commissions and “anything to make a living by the brush”. Then in 1980 he decided to concentrate on exhibitions, and as he says, “doing what I like”. For many years he painted en plein air only, “the best training I could ever have had”, before reverting to studio work based on sketches and memory, which he thinks of “as the companion of observation”.
His work is mostly about “Cymru” and “Y Cymry” (land and the people). The “people paintings” often reflect his own concerns about living in a changing Wales. His landscapes and seascapes, whilst inspired by his local environment of Wales, are more about weather and the natural elements than the place alone. He works predominantly with a palette knife, creating enormous energy and light with the paint. He allows the paint ‘to do the work’, creating paintings with great freedom and expression.
Gareth has exhibited for many years in both London and Wales, and his work can now be found in both Public and Private Collections both in the UK and abroad. In 2006 Gareth was elected a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy.
Gareth Parry Hill Farm, Break of Day, Eryri, Snowdonia · oil on canvas · 20 x 24 in. Gareth Parry Little River, Dusk · oil on canvas · 20 x 24 in.
Midsummer River oil on canvas · 24 x 28 in.
Maureen Davies
Apple Blossom Path
oil on canvas
· 24 x 28 in.
Maureen DaviesPatrick Gibbs
Walking to a Sailing Boat, Senegal · acrylic on board · 24 x 36 in.
Patrick Gibbs
Woman in Pink and White, Gujarat acrylic on board 11 x 5 in.
Patrick Gibbs
Woman Carrying Sugarcane, Myanmar oil on board 20 x 14 in.
Gareth Parry
Sea Cliffs and Lobster
Fisherman
oil on canvas · 20 x 24 in.
Gareth Parry Mountains in the
Morning, Ogwen Valley oil on canvas · 20 x 24 in.
