Iwan Gwyn Parry

Works

Ancient Channel - Ancient River Source, 2025
Ancient Channel - Deluge, 2025
Ancient Channel - Lullaby in Blue, 2025
Ancient Channel - Rhapsody in Blue, 2025
Ancient Channel - The Abyss, 2025
Ancient Channel - The Blue Remembered Hills, 2025
Ancient Channel - The Causeway, 2025
Ancient Channel 2, 2025
Origin 10, 2025
Origin 2, 2025
Origin 5, 2025
Origin 6, 2025
A Winter Dawn, Mawddach Estuary, 2024
Winter Estuary Study, Cardigan Bay , 2024
The Irish Sea, 2024
The Irish Sea (Once Below a Time), 2023
Ancient Channel - Riverflow, 2025
A Winter Dawn, Cardigan Bay, 2024
A Spring Low Tide near Barmouth, 2023
The Irish Sea, Twilight, 2022

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.

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

Iwan has exhibited throughout Wales and in galleries in London and Dublin. His work can be found in many public and private collections including the National Library of Wales, Government Art Collection, University of South Wales, Contemporary Arts Society for Wales, Anglesey County Council and Bangor University.

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

Exhibitions