Welsh Artist

So far this year!

The 2 paintings below, are now hanging in pride of place in my front room.
After my last outing to Anglesy I made a quick stop at the Oriel Gallery in Cemaes.







To my great delight he had 6 of Gwilym's paintings, so I could not help myself, I had to buy 2 that I fell in love with.
















This year I visited Anglesey to pay a visit to a very kind person that I had met on a forum.
After a long treck around a building site (he was having his house done up) I managed to locate him. He managed to point me in the right direction of a person that also had commissioned Gwilym to do a painting. A short ride up the hill and around the corner, I managed to locate the house. After explaining who I was, they invited me into the house. A few more very kind words were said by them about Gwilym, and I was led to a back room. As I walked into the room, I could not believe the size of the painting on the wall. It looked like Gwilym had stuck 4 normal painting boards together to produce the one fantastic scene.




The painting on the left is now owned by a local art enthusiast living in Almwch.
He attended a local auction and bought this painting for just £25.00.







I payed him a visit whilst I was on holiday, and he was able to also give me contact details of another family that had also some of Gwilym's paintings.



After a short drive down the road, I managed to locate the family that he had been referring to.

The story is that they used to live in the house next door, until work had to be started on it because it had become run down. After this work had been completed they asked Gwilym to produce a painting for them.



Gwilym produceed the above oil painting of an old house in Cemaes.
This year I made a vist to the local art dealer in that area, and to my surprise he had the oil painting in his house. He offered to take me on a small trip around Cemaes to locate the house as it stands today. The picture below is how it stands today, they have built on to the building as you can see, but you can still make out the detail of the sea and shoreline in the background.








The image below is another painting owned by the local art dealer.
It is of another local house right on the harbour front.

I intend to visit Anglesey again to obtain another photograph of the house as it now stands today, as I think it would be nice to also compare two pictures as well.

Ships and Menai Bridge

Gwilym has also painted numerous ships and different versions of the Menai Bridge.
I have managed to located the paintings below.

I'm very interested in trying to locate who owns the first ship painting on the left.

I believe the ship was one that visited Anglesey often. I'm not sure of it's name, so if anyone had any further information, I would be very greatfull.