IMAGE AND TEXT

1. IMAGE AND TEXT

2. NEALE HOWELLS • It is difficult to imagine any artist working in worse working conditions than Neale Howells. His studio and storehouse are at the bottom of his garden in his home in Neath. He is a wild and aggressive character, but he is intensely passionate about his work. The titles of his work are frightening :“Perverts in Chapel” and “Buy this or I’ll Kill my Wife and Kids”. Click here to see the artists work

3. Neale Howells’s paintings hit someone smack in the face! He uses emulsion paint, everyday ‘gloss’ paint and charcoal, pencil, collage, anything which comes to hand. He even searches for things on the street and in skips. Howells’s paintings are not portraits or landscapes but rather pictures of the attitude of our society, graffiti, slogans, marks which we see on street walls in our valleys and cities. His work is much more inventive than what it appears to be at first.

4. "His graffiti inspired paintings and drawings seem to reference TV, overheard conversations or bits of information heard whilst tuning the radio. What we are left with is a mass of arguing mark making that leaves the viewer unsure of how and when to proceed. Howells' work seems a sprawling living 'thing' that has a life of its own" (quoted from Ffresh 3, an exhibition at Chapter/G97 in March 2002).

5. Iwan Balawww.iwanbala.com • “Mae fyngwaithynymdrin â thirwedd, tirwedddiwylliant, cof, dychymyg. Tirweddhunaniaeth. Rwyfynymdrechuiymchwilio ac igreurhywfath o fapo'rdirweddbersonolyma, fyynysfechan, ermwyneilleoli o fewntirweddehangach y bydmawr". • My work attempts to define the cultural particularity that I was born with, the language, myths, history and poetry. In a multicultural world, I am aware also of the fragility of all core cultural identities, just as I am aware of the fragility of the landscape and ecology of the places we live in, and the barren materialism of much of our lives. Images with kind permission of Iwan Bala

6. Images with kind permission of Iwan Bala

7. MARY LLOYD JONES • ‘Her work attempts a distillation of the landscape, seeks to capture its physical being, complete with scars, while revealing its history and - curiously, in works from which the human figure is always absent - showing our relationship to the land past and present.’ Images with kind permission of MARY LLOYD JONES

8. Mari Thomas Images with kind permission of Mari Thomas

9. ROY LITCHENSTEIN What are the characteristics or style of LITCHENSTEIN’s work? http://www.flickr.com/photos/oddsock/100825567/ • People or portraits of people were usually the subjects of his work. He also sometimes painted Still Life. • He would redraw cartoon characters by hand – not by tracing them! • He used the same technique in the comic books, namely: • Vivid primary colours such as red, blue or yellow. • Thick black lines. • ‘Benday’ dots – a distinct style which was to be seen in comic pictures. • Not much detail – simple style.

10. TIM DAVIES • Although I do not wish to be prescriptive with regard to my work, since all who look at it bring their own understanding and interpretation to each piece, these notes, I hope, will explain my motives and my directions for completing it. Click here to see examples of the artists work

11. OGWYN DAVIES Click here to see examples of the artists work

12. Barbara Kruger Click here to see examples of the artists work