'Chamber'
Artists
Arthur Giardelli
Brendan Burns
Carol Hiles
Christine Kinsey
Chris Shurrock
Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Dennis Gardner
Dilys Jackson
Emrys Williams
Glyn Jones
Harvey Hood
John Selway
Martyn Jones
Peter Seabourne
Peter Spriggs
Robert Harding
Robert Alwyn Hughes
Sue Hunt
Sue Williams
Tom Piper
Antonia Spowers
Richard Renshaw
Ken Elias
"In my painting various seaside spaces have formed the basis of investigations into ideas to do with memory, imagination and the way one might reconstruct our experience through remembered fragments. The paintings have appropriated imagery from travels in Wales, France and Italy relating to art historical sources, as well as particular motifs found on location.
Individual pictures are generally made as part of a series and repitition within the imagery suggests sequential and narrative links, with some images re-appearing from one picture to another like leitmotifs or fragments from a short story. There is a deliberate tension in the work between depicted memory and abstract concerns of scale, material and the nature of painting as a physical object."
Emrys Williams was born in Liverpool in 1958 and moved with his family to Colwyn Bay in 1969. He studied at the SLade School of Art, London. He has recently been Artist in Residence at the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff (2003) and at various points in his career has won prizes at the Royal Overseas League, London (1988), The National Eisteddfod (1985) and the 12th Liverpool John Moores Painting Exhibition (1982). One person exhibitions include Emrys Williams: Recent Paintings, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown (2003); Various Fictions, Collins Gallery Glasgow (1998-touring) and Emrys Williams, Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London.
Recent selected group exhibitions include Small Paintings II, Martin Tinney Gallery Cardiff(2003) and the 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Bohun Gallery Henley on Thames. Works by Emrys Williams are held in public collections of the Arts Council,Clwyd Fine Arts Trust, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Swansea, the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, National Museums and Galleries of Wales Cardiff, and Newport Museum and Art Gallery Newport.