COMMITTeE MEMBERS’ SPRING equinox EXHIBITION
Jill Jones
Painting in either oils or acrylics, she works from her purpose-built studio and gallery, West Coast Studio, supplying galleries across Wales.
Her love of Wales is evident in her work, which features huge skies, gentle moonlit scenes and wild images of the unspoilt Welsh countryside. Dramatic seas, florals and enigmatic bygone architecture also feature in both semi-abstract and impressionist style pieces.
Jill also creates abstract pieces filled with meaningful connections.
The growing popularity of Jill’s work can be seen on her website, by the significant number of ‘sold’ works shown.
Ray Burnell
A landscape artist based in West Wales, working primarily in oil and mixed media. His practice is shaped by close observation of the region’s coastline and countryside, where shifting light, weather, and terrain provide constant source material. Rather than literal description, his work focuses on conveying atmosphere, movement, and emotional response to place.
Rooted in the landscape tradition yet contemporary in approach, Ray Burnell’s work invites slow looking and quiet contemplation. Through sustained engagement with place, his paintings offer an atmospheric and thoughtful response to the landscapes of West Wales.
Peter Spriggs
Peter Spriggs is a Welsh painter and printmaker. He holds a First Class Honours in BA Fine Art from Cardiff Metropolitan University and MA(RCA) from the Painting School, Royal College of Art, London.
After teaching in Adult Education Centres in London, for many years he was a lecturer at Carmarthen School of Art at Coleg Sir Gar, Currently he is a part-time Technical Demonstrator in Printmaking at Swansea College of Art, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David.
“A painting, or a print, is eventually completed and there was nothing easy about this. It has layers of emotion and turmoil, time and labour, and eventually, resolution.”
Dorothy Morris
I am influenced by my location, living by the waters edge and working in an idyllic environment. I am an experienced art teacher, lecturer and practising artist who has exhibited widely in Wales and Britain in selected exhibitions and also abroad including Russia,
I work in a wide range of materials including textiles, ceramics, mixed media and more traditional mediums such as water colours and acrylics. Not afraid of experimenting, I am forever exploring new materials and processes but draw my inspiration from my environment especially Ferryside my home village.
Anna Warchus
This exhibition inspired me to open my studio after the long, wet winter, plug in my wheel, and make these stripy paintings which remind me of ripples. The stripy ceramics were thrown then balanced and painted with clay stains on the same wheel. My circular ‘dream-catcher’ is pinned with ceramic discs imprinted with patterns of plants and flowers.
My pottery studio is in Tenby, a short walk from south beach and at high tide I can hear the sea as I create my unique sculptural and functional pieces. I enjoy the physical and aesthetic challenge of working clay into meaningful objects. At times I throw random shapes on my wheel before joining them together like puzzle pieces; into towers I call ‘Vents’, or enclosed vessels I call ‘Buoys’.
David Finch
David has exhibited his work widely within Gloucestershire and Pembrokeshire and takes his inspiration from landscapes to create a sense of space and place using contrasting and complimentary colours to achieve a vibrancy in his work. Compositions are created in his sketchbooks during his travels worldwide and exploring the beautiful city of Gloucester and the wild landscapes of Pembrokeshire.
Liz Tobin
The paintings I have chosen for Spring Equinox exhibition are a deviation from my usual offering of urban plus nature genre. These three paintings celebrate the joy of Spring in full and undiluted colour. Hence, they still echo my usual style, but without the urban element. I hope you enjoy them.
Lawrence Mathias
My work for Spring Equinox uses several media and two distinct styles. Much of my practice has wandered between media and subject matter, reflected to some degree in the work here, the two watercolours and ink study, and the acrylic piece. Perhaps there is a spring-like element in this, aside from the obvious spring-time subject matter: an aspiration for renewal and rediscovery, hoping to tap into a tiny bit of nature’s endless creativiy…
Sarah John
Returning to Wales two years ago from the vineyards on the Mosel,, Sarah decided to embark on a bachelor degree in painting to develop her techniques and to continue her quest to find her her authentic, artistic ‘voice’. Her love of the Pembrokeshire countryside can be seen in her paintings: a body of work revealing a joyful response to her surroundings using expressive brush marks and a gentle, intuitive style.
Mother of 3 grown-up sons, Sarah now lives in Cardigan where she loves to walk her dog on the beaches and the footpaths which she also helps to maintain. Most of her paintings develop from gathered images. Either sketches made on these walks or from photos.
Rosemary Graham
Her Celtic roots touch a different aspect of life. Rosemary feels frequencies translated through the senses. Paintings intuitively emerge like ‘birds on the wing’ in freedom, unrestrained. The soul is transported and outcome unknown. Environmental sounds and songs ‘speak’ loud. A celebration of life in the raw. Poetry fills her soul literally. It accompanies pieces produced.
Mixed media expresses Rosemary’s paintings, balancing layers of textural colour, mark making, scratching and layers in a slow meditative process. It’s a gestural and material-directed process of energy. Cultural and artistic Influences from random sources of learning through a lifetime, intertwine.
Tor North
My work has a botanic theme, whether it is in the form of metalwork (sculpture or jewellery) or drawings. I aim to practice mindful close observation of plants and their environments, and to represent them in a way that honours their value.
It is important to me not only to highlight those plants that are endangered, rare and under threat, but also the importance and beauty of the commonplace plants we see around us everyday. Otherwise those too may one day become scarce.
I like to draw and create when I am out and about, and also in my workshop near Narberth.
Susan Sands
Susan`s vigorous paintings and prints reflect her ceaseless quest for the right technique with which to express her ideas. Inspired by the changing shapes created by the tide on the estuary where she lives or the craggy textures of the rocky cliffs not far away, her other source is the sketchbooks/diaries that she keeps during her regular travels in India, land of her birth. The colours and patterns of the architecture, vegetation, the animals and, above all the people, are an ongoing pictorial tale to be told. As a printmaker in various media, Susan often introduces printed elements into her paintings, giving an added liveliness to the surface.
Lynn Stuart
Lynn Stuart, born in Milford Haven, attended Carmarthen Art College and Maine College of Art, USA. Moved to America age eighteen, suffered from Hiraeth, returned to Wales. "I have been painting for over forty years and am based in Narberth." Exhibitions include: Dallas Centre for Contemporary Art Museum of Modern Art, Wales Central Wales Art Collective, 2025 North Wales Open, 2025