Gareth Parry
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11 - 28 October 2016
front cover: Big Sea, Bardsey Island, Ynys Enlli - oil on linen - 51 x 61cm [detail]
Thackeray Gallery E
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Look, Stranger Look, stranger, on this island now The leaping light for your delight discovers, Stand stable here And silent be, That through the channels of the ear May wander like a river The swaying sound of the sea. Here at a small field’s ending pause Where the chalk wall falls to the foam and its tall ledges Oppose the pluck And knock of the tide, And the shingle scrambles after the suck-ing surf, and a gull lodges A moment on its sheer side. Far off like floating seeds the ships Diverge on urgent voluntary errands, And this full view Indeed may enter And move in memory as now these clouds do, That pass the harbour mirror And all the summer through the water saunter. W H Auden (1936)
Lobsterboat & Headland - oil on linen - 61 x 61cm
Moonlight & Moored Boats - oil on linen - 61 x 61cm
Coastal Path, Bardsey Island/Ynys Enlli - oil on linen - 61 x 91cm
Coast & Setting Sun - oil on board - 61 x 61cm
House on the Headland, Showers I - oil on linen - 51 x 61cm
Lighthouse & Sails, Anglesey - oil on linen - 51 x 61cm
Clifftop Path, Summer - oil on linen - 51 x 66cm
Little Beach, Breezy Day - oil on linen - 61 x 61cm
End of Day, Lake in the Mountains - oil on linen - 51 x 61cm
House on the Headland, Showers II - oil on linen - 61 x 61cm
Coastal Path, Cloud Shadow - oil on linen - 61 x 91cm
Coastal Path, Yacht - oil on linen - 61 x 91cm
Old Docks II - oil on linen - 61 x 61cm
Lobster Fisherman, Llyn Peninsula - oil on linen - 61 x 61cm
Morning Sun, Eryri/Snowdonia - oil on linen - 61 x 91cm
Low Tide, Dusk - oil on linen - 76 x 122cm
Old Jetty, Dusk - oil on linen - 51 x 66cm
Little River, Autumn - oil on linen - 51 x 61cm
Old Lighthouse & Moored Boats - oil on linen - 51 x 66cm
Old Docks I - oil on linen - 51 x 61cm
Portrait of a Mountain, Tryfan, Blue Sky - oil on linen - 61 x 76cm
Quiet Sea & Setting Sun - oil on linen - 61 x 76cm
Red Boat on a Beach - oil on linen - 71 x 71cm
Summer Hawthorn - oil on linen - 61 x 61cm
Ripening Wheat Fields - oil on linen - 61 x 61cm
Rocky Shore & Distant Mountains - oil on board - 61 x 61cm
The Red Yacht - oil on linen - 61 x 76cm
Portrait of a Mountain, Tryfan, Snowdonia - oil on linen - 61 x 76cm
Seascape, High Tide & Wind - oil on board - 41 x 56cm
Sunrise, Stream & Trees - oil on board - 46 x 61cm
Welsh Mountain, Tryfan, Summer - oil on linen - 51 x 66cm
Approaching Dusk, Distant Sea - oil on linen - 51 x 66cm
Big Sea, Bardsey Island, Ynys Enlli - oil on linen - 51 x 61cm
First Snowfall, Ogwen, Snowdonia - oil on board - 38 x 49cm
BIOGRAPHY 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, embracing all that came his way, illustrating or undertaking commissions as varied as landscapes, portraits and still lifes. 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 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 extra-ordinary energy and light with the paint. He lets the paint ‘do the work’, creating paintings with great freedom and expression. Gareth has exhibited over many years in both London and Wales, and his work can now be found in both Public and Private Collections. Gareth Parry has been exhibiting with Thackeray Gallery since 2007.
GROUP EXHIBITION Since 1999, Gareth Parry has exhibited in numerous mixed exhibition in both public and private galleries, to include: Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy; Tabernacle, Machynlleth; Albany Gallery, Cardiff; Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, Pwllheli; John Davis Gallery, Stowe; Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff; Attic Gallery, Swansea; Tegfryn Gallery, Angelsey; Wykeham Gallery, Hampshire; Thackeray Gallery, London.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2001 2002 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2006 2007 2009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
National Library of Wales Oriel Pen y Bont Galllery, Aberystwtth Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, Pwllheli Oriel Pen y Bont Gallery, Aberystwtth Oriel Ynys Mon, LLangefni Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, Pwllheli Oriel Pn y Bont Gallery, Aberytstwtth Thackeray Gallery, London Thackeray Gallery, London Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff Thackeray Gallery, London Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff Wykeham Gallery, Hampshire Thackeray Gallery, London
He continues to live and work in Wales.
Published by Thackeray Gallery, 2016 © Thackeray Gallery, 2016 Photography by Andrew Klime, 2016 Poem , 'Look, Stranger' by W H Auden, 1936