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"All these
works, collages of handmade paper, oil paint and gold leaf on
wood are inspired by the remains of ancient artefacts. The surface
textures suggest evidence of erosion, marks on a long journey
and of mysterious history."
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"Blue Still Life" by Glenys Cour. Collage, handmade
paper and oil paint .
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Glenys
Cour has
been fasinated with the stories of the Mabinogion since
her student days' and has used the imagery over and over
again in various media and with different treatments.
The
work exhibited here is derived from the mystifying remains
and artefacts of ancient cultures.
"My
obsession has been with gold - the material that does not
corrode but remains when great civilisations have disappeared.
The thin beaten
gold of Greek diadems, the intricate convolutions of Celtic
gold and the subsequent Russian and Greek icons - these
have been the inspiration of my work for the last fifteen
years.
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my art I generally employ collage, making my own paper in order
to enrich the texture of the surfaces. I then stain this paper
with oil paint and gold pigment and finally apply traces of
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ln addition to
this main body of work, I have also been involved in design
for festival posters(I was even awarded the first prize for
the best poster by the British Arts Festivals Association
in 1989) and book covers as well as stained glass (I was artist-in-residence
during the 1992 Painter in Glass exhibition at the Glynn Vivian
Art Gallery, Swansea) and theatre design."
Glenys Cour (text from "Revelations"
- Processes of Making Art - The Welsh Group Exhibition 2000-01).
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"Red Still Life" by Glenys Cour. Collage, handmade
paper and oil paint .
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| "Red Still Life" by Glenys Cour.
Collage, handmade paper and oil paint. |
Glenys
Cour has exhibited extensively over the years and a full C.V.
is available from the artist upon request.
Glenys Cour trained at Cardiff College of Art where she was
taught by Ceri Richards. Her marriage to a sculptor, Ronald
Cour who, sadly, died in 1978, meant that her environment was
always one of lively exchange of artistic ideas and of joint
exploration of the International Art Scene.
(Extract Betty Rees from "Glenys Cour" -
Paintings & Collages Exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Gallery
Gallery 1986). |
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GLENYS
COUR 
