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40 years of painting paintings and works on paper
This
is the London venue of a museum - touring exhibition initiated by Oriel
Ynys Mon, Anglesey.
The
touring details are as follows:
Oriel
Ynys Mon, Isle of Anglesey 14 Jan – 26 Feb 2006
Boundary
Gallery, London 19 May – 24 June 2006
The Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea 30 June – 22 July 2006
The Brindley Arts Centre, Runcorn, Cheshire 29 July – 16 September
The Howard Gardens Gallery, University of Wales Institute Cardiff 6
Oct – 2 Nov 2006
Private View and book launch of Painter’s Quarry Thursday 18
May 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm
The Painter’s Quarry – The Art of Peter Prendergast
172 pp with 70 illustrations is published by Seren with essays by John
Russell Taylor, Peter Wakelin, Peter Davies, Robert Macdonald, Lynda
Morris, David Alston special price of £20 (instead of £25) + postage
£2.85
In
a career spanning four decades Peter Prendergast has established himself
as one of Britain’s foremost landscape painters and as a formidable
painter of portraits and self-portraits.
Best known for his bold, expressionist paintings of north Wales, in
particular Snowdonia, he began painting in the industrial community
of his native South Wales valleys.
He went to Cardiff Art College, the Slade and Reading University and
taught at Liverpool Art College and Coleg Menai.
He encountered key influences such as his tutor Frank Auerbach, fellow
student Len Tabner and more distantly Bomberg, Bonnard and Cezanne.
Throughout his career Prendergast has been an artist alive to the work
of other artists, though also one with a particularly personal style.
It is a style, which has resulted in thrilling drawings and paintings
of the mountains and fields, seas and rivers, quarries and towns around
his home in Deiniolen.
These subjects along with Ireland and New York are celebrated with vigour
and energy.
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