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CURRENT EXHIBITION
ANNE ASPINALL, KATE CORBETT-WINDER, ALUN MORGAN, PETER MORGAN
20th August - 11th September
Private View - Friday 20th August 5-8pm
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From whitewashed houses huddled by the sea to lush inland pastures, the latest exhibition at The Albany Gallery offers four unique perspectives on Wales and its people.
Kate Corbett Winder is passionate about the changing landscape surrounding her home in Mid-Wales. Her luscious, richly coloured paintings in oil, pastel and collage aim to capture a sense of place and season. "I love to draw what I'm actually seeing," she says. "I'll go out with large bits of paper and charcoal and sit there. Then I come back to my studio and it'll either grow into a painting or stay as a drawing."
Fellow exhibitor Anne Aspinall's work is a response to the patterns and rhythms of the landscape of North Wales. Her palette, however, is coloured by the bright colours and light of Africa, where she spent an extended period travelling in the late 1980s. On her return to Wales she incorporated the rich colours of Islamic art into her paintings of the UK. Based in the Peak District, she makes frequent visits to Wales, whose scenery has captured her imagination in childhood.
"Wales was always there in my imagination from my earliest memories of holidays with my family and later visiting my aunt in Harlech," she says. "Using Harlech as my base, I explored the area right down to the tip of the Llyn Peninsular, walking and sketching and just having the place seep into my soul."
The landscape and buildings of Pembrokeshire are the driving force behind Peter Morgan's distinctive work. A self-taught artist who first trained as an architect and civil engineer, Peter's early work was based on meticulous pen and ink drawings but became bolder as he became fluent in different media and techniques.
Despite the changes in style, his subject matter remains constant. "The landscapes haven't changed, but they are so much more alive to me now," he says.
For Alun Morgan, the comparatively featureless coastline of the Vale of Glamorgan inspires his unexpectedly dramatic pastel and charcoal drawings.
"I love the openness of the coastal landscape and the effect the weather and the changing light have on it," he says.
Alun's work is a reminder that even the most tranquil landscape can have an intensity of its own, especially when the weather comes into play.
Between them these four artists cover the four corners of Wales in all its changing moods and seasons. Their styles could not be more different, but their work shares an intensity and drama that makes it distinctly Welsh.