Back Wall Series: Jan Williams
28 July – 13 October 2018
Jan Williams is the latest in our series of Welsh artists featured as part of our Back Wall Series in the gallery shop.
Jan Williams is a visual artist based in Cardiff. Her paintings for this exhibition are created by layering tinted lime wash on card. The choice of lime-wash is significant, a memory from her childhood of the annual lime-washing of the cowsheds on the family farm near Brecon. This continuous paint/erase method creates surfaces that are alive to the play, not only of chance, but that of editing and choice. The paintings slowly reveal a complex tension between surface and depth that creates a space for haunting, half remembered transitional spaces.
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Cyfres Y Rhes Gefn: Jan Williams
28 Gorffenaf – 13 Hydref 2018
Jan Williams yw’r diweddaraf i fod yn rhan o Cyfres Y Rhes Gefn yn Oriel Myrddin sy’n rhoi sylw i artistiaid Cymreig yn y siop oriel.
Mae Jan Williams yn artist gweledol sy'n gweithio yng Nghaerdydd. Mae ei phaentiadau ar gyfer yr arddangosfa hon wedi cael eu creu drwy osod haenau gwyngalch arlliwedig ar gerdyn. Mae'r dewis o wyngalchu yn bwysig, sef cof plentyndod pan fyddai'r beudai ar fferm y teulu ger Aberhonddu yn cael eu gwyngalchu bob blwyddyn. Mae’r dull peintio/dileu parhaus hwn yn creu arwynebau byw y mae modd eu haddasu a'u newid. Yn raddol mae'r paentiadau'n araf ddatgelu tensiwn cymhleth rhwng yr arwyneb a'r dyfnder sy'n creu gofod atgofus a thrawsnewidiol.
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