Iwan Gwyn Parry

Works

Overview

Iwan Gwyn Parry was born on Anglesey in 1970. After completing his degree in Cardiff Institute of Highter Education in 1992 he went on to study an MA in painting at Chelsea School of Art & Design, London. After graduating in 1993 he returned to North Wales, where he still lives and works.

Many of his paintings feature the landscape and seascape of the North Wales coastline and Irish Sea.

Biography

From an early age and for a long time I have had a deep resonance, affinity and pre-occupation with the Western and Eastern seaboard of Wales, Ireland and the broader Irish Sea which have formed a backdrop to my paintings and drawings.

There are many layers to this pre-occupation as I chose subjects and places which allow me pictorial freedom to explore passages of emotional colour and thought, which indeed become meditations on time, space and light.

The act of painting for me is imbedded and laced with mystery, arduous and demanding at times but always profoundly uplifting.

Through this process of "Emotional Archaeology" I am trying to find a visual equivalent for my sensations and inspirations which I hope suggest mystery, magic and spiritual connection.

Prizes and collections:

2024 The University of Wales, Bangor permanent, Art collection

2023 “The National Library of Wales”, Aberystwyth, permanent collection.

National government collection (House of Lords purchase collection 2012)

University of Glamorgan collection 2008

Contemporary Art Society of Wales collection 2007

Anglesey County Council

2^nd prize gold medal fine art competition

National Eisteddfod of Anglesey 1999

Elected member of Royal Cambrian Academy 2003

Numerous private collections nationally and internationally

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