In further celebration of our new gallery space. Oriel Mwldan has the wonderful opportunity to welcome back three acclaimed, prolific artists, each with rich ideas and successful careers in painting. Coviello, Steele-Morgan and Yeomans will be showing new works based on their discoveries and their surrounding influences in their homw counties of Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire

EXHIBITORS

GEOFF YEOMANS
PERSONAL STATEMENT
SHADES

Da Vinci suggests we look for unique compositions on stained walls. Paul Nash speaks of landscapes unknown because we have not yet seen them.

My stained walls are the sides of rusting ships. My 'landscapes' are about now. They are temporal not topographic, though the sources were found in Pembrokeshire between 2000 and 2003.

The method, manipulating a simple motif with knife, roller and rag, allows the paint to roam and run until there is a settlement, a resolution, a tidyness. The material becomes the master, the painter, the apprentice.

Between the weeds of observation and the rocks of depiction there are divine and devilish notions lying in wait. The ghosts and spirits from art history, from TV news, from courtroom or a war memorial, emerge like wrecks at low tide.

TONY STEELE-MORGAN
ARTIST STATEMENT

The most obvious feature of Tony Steele-Morgan’s work is its immaculate draughtsmanship, but the briefest acquaintance will also reveal the fascinating way in which the artist plays with perspective and ideas.

The execution of the paintings is clear, exact and sometimes quite luminously vivid. His Mother Teresa painting and other pieces with Third World subjects sometimes seem to blaze accusingly from the canvas. But on so many other occasions we find a gentler, more quizzical manner. Many of the paintings are set within an outer frame, usually a window, its sill dotted with his most recurrent motif, the butterfly. The effect is to set up the most engaging and curious effects of perspective and dimension.

And outside the windows lies a world which is often haunting, even mythological. There are landscapes, there are figures of various times and place, there are sometimes Adam and Eve. Maybe Steele-Morgan’s work quests for his own personal Eden, but the quest is precisely and scrupulously mapped.

Robert Nisbet

PETER COVIELLO
PERSONAL STATEMENT

My process is at times complex and lengthy and at others instant and spontaneous. Some images emerge very rapidly, others are only revealed after a long gestation; the work being taken up and radically altered after having been set-aside for a long time.

I do not strive for innovation. I make objects in forms and materials with which I am comfortable and familiar; originality results from the search for a language in which to express new ideas.

Mythology provides me with a base for awareness, being informed by my interest in Quantum and Chaos theories and Cosmology ( I advisedly say interest. I am no mathematician or scientist!) Key terms are: chance, uncertainty and ambiguity. The objects I make are influenced by visual surroundings but remain essentially iconic and subjective.

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