Works
  • Iwan Gwyn Parry, A Winter Dawn, Mawddach Estuary, 2024
    A Winter Dawn, Mawddach Estuary, 2024
  • Iwan Gwyn Parry, Cardigan Bay at Sunset, 2024
    Cardigan Bay at Sunset, 2024
  • Iwan Gwyn Parry, Winter Estuary Study, Cardigan Bay , 2024
    Winter Estuary Study, Cardigan Bay , 2024
  • Iwan Gwyn Parry, The Irish Sea, 2024
    The Irish Sea, 2024
  • Iwan Gwyn Parry, The Western Approaches (Celtic Sea), 2024
    The Western Approaches (Celtic Sea), 2024
  • Iwan Gwyn Parry, Yr Ynys (The Island), 2024
    Yr Ynys (The Island), 2024
  • Iwan Gwyn Parry, The Irish Sea (Once Below a Time), 2023
    The Irish Sea (Once Below a Time), 2023
  • Iwan Gwyn Parry, A Winter Dawn, Cardigan Bay, 2024
    A Winter Dawn, Cardigan Bay, 2024
  • Iwan Gwyn Parry, A Spring Low Tide near Barmouth, 2023
    A Spring Low Tide near Barmouth, 2023
  • Iwan Gwyn Parry, The Irish Sea, Twilight, 2022
    The Irish Sea, Twilight, 2022
Overview
Iwan Gwyn Parry

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
Iwan Gwyn Parry

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

2nd prize gold medal fine art competition

National Eisteddfod of Anglesey 1999

Elected member of Royal Cambrian Academy 2003

Numerous private collections nationally and internationally

 

 

Exhibitions