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Jug with Pears and Eggs, 2023
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Lilies and Eggs, 2023
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Flask with Bowl and Kiwi Fruit, 2024
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Kitchen Eggs, 2024
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Still Life with Eggs and Grapes, 2024
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Still Life with Tulips and Chilli Pepper, 2024
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Aberglasney Garden Tulips, 2023
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White Lilies, 2023
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Still Life with Blue Grapes, 2020
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Tulips, 2024
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Six Vessels and Strawberries, 2024
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Crocus Bowl and Eggs , 2022
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Blue Jar with Apples, 2023
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Jar with Lemon Bowl and Strawberries, 2021
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Still life with Apples and Strawberries, 2023
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Flask with Yellow Crocus, 2023
Also see Current Exhibition - Vivienne Williams Contemplating Colour 12 October - 10 November
Vivienne Williams was born in Swansea in 1955. She studied English Literature at Reading University taking a Masters Degree in ‘The Literary Response to the Visual Arts’ in 1978. She spent the next five years abroad, teaching English in Venice and Padua and working in an art gallery in Sydney where she began selling her work for the first time. Returning to the UK in 1983 she spent the next seven years studying and working in a Buddhist Community before becoming a full time painter in 1990, returning to Wales at this time.
Her early work was expressive and very colourful, the subject matter mostly flowers. For the last thirteen years she has concentrated more on still life painting, her palette constantly evolving, her style distinctive.
She was a prize-winner at the National Eisteddfod in 1993. She received a highly commended prize at the inaugural Welsh Artist of the Year competition in Cardiff in 2000 and was invited to be on the panel of judges in 2008. Her work was purchased by the Contemporary Arts Society for Wales in 2003.
‘I paint flowers, fruit, pots, jugs and bowls – often on a table, lately with more views from the window, some objects in open landscape. Everything in the picture is rearranged and repainted many times, deciding what to leave in and what to leave out is a balancing act. The spaces are as significant as the objects themselves. As the layers of paint build, the surface texture is energetically worked, scratched, sanded and stained. It always surprises me when a battle on the paper resolves itself into a calm painting’.
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Winter Exhibition / Arddangosfa Gaeaf
Celebrating the gallery's first anniversary / Dathlu pen-blwydd cyntaf yr oriel 23 Nov 2024 - 26 Jan 2025This is our first of what will become an annual Winter Exhibition at Celf Gallery. The constantly changing show highlights the work of our gallery artists, including; Philip Archer OBE,...Read more -
Vivienne Williams
CONTEMPLATING COLOUR 12 Oct - 10 Nov 2024Contemplating Colour is a very apt title for this exhibition of vibrant new works by Vivienne Williams. Vivienne is a contemporary British artist known for her evocative still life paintings....Read more -
Summer Exhibition / Arddangosfa Haf
Mixed show by all our Artists / Sioe Gymysg gan ein holl Artistiaid 19 Jul - 18 Aug 2024Eleri Mills lives and works in rural Mid Wales, where she was born and raised. She has exhibited worldwide, and her work is in numerous national collections including the National...Read more -
Easter Exhibition / Arddangosfa Pasg
A mixed show of new work by our gallery artists 20 Mar - 7 Apr 2024Celf Gallery is pleased to announce what will become our annual Easter Show. The exhibition highlights work by our gallery artists, including; Shani Rhys James MBE, Kevin Sinnott, Mary Lloyd...Read more -
Opening Exhibition
A mixed exhibition by some of Wales' foremost artists 18 Nov - 23 Dec 2023Thrilled to be presenting our first exhibition at Celf Gallery.Read more