|
|
"Aberglasney - 1000 year old Yew tunnel" Watercolour
16" x 22" (Not for sale)
|
JAN
FRY |
Jan Fry is a versatile
artist, working in many media, and qualified to teach art. Summer
arts workshops are available. For further details visit the Art
Courses page within this web site.
|
|
"Côte Sauvage Brittany"
Pastel - 21" x 29"
£350
|
|
Jan
Fry is a winner of three Design Council Awards. She has
exhibited widely, including in Piccadily and Glasgow, the
Metropolitan Hotel in Bahrain, Miami USA, the Albany Gallery
in Cardiff, the Taliesin Gallery in Swansea University and,
currently, in the Fountain Fine Art in Llandeilo, Makers
Gallery in Cardiff and 'Toko', Aberystwyth.
From
1979 - 80 Jan completed a Ceramics apprenticeship with Mick
Morgan, Talog.
In 1981 she studied silk painting in Brittany (Pornichet).
Between 1983 - 88 Jan made several television appearences,
including; "International Fashion Show" at Port
Meirion, in which jan represented Wales with laura Ashley,
making exotic dresses in painted silk.
|
|
From this experience
Jan established customers in Rome, Paris, Miami, Frankfurt,
New Zealand as well as the UK.
In 1998 Jan published
a book entitled "Warriors at the Edge of Time,"
a Celtic adventure story based upon Britain's longest running
environmental campaign to save the Gwernlais Valley from quarrying
(published by Capall Bann, price £9.95)
Jan Fry has been
teaching art since 1985 at many venues, including; Carmarthen
College of Technology and Art, The Pyrenees in France, Community
Education, Trinity College in Carmarthen and currently private
classes.
|
|
ARTISTS STATEMENT:
"I produce work in a variety of media, including watercolour,
oil, pastel, silk, monoprinting and ceramic. It is the idea
that matters and I translate this into the most suitable medium
for its expression.
Essentially I am moved by the power of nature and influenced
by Welsh and Breton landscape and its mythology.
I am particularly interested in the spirits of the land and
in particular in ancient Yew trees in Celtic countries."
|
"Sea Arch - Three Cliffs Gower."
Watercolour 24.5" x 19.5"
£550
|
|
Wales
has one of the largest collections of ancient Yew trees in
the world, with several being up to 5,000 years old.
|
"I
strive to convey atmosphere and feelings and hidden underlying
presences in wild places."
Jan Fry 2002 |
| |
|
"Gateway Trees - Beeches at Beddgelert"
Watercolour 24.5" x 20.5"
£550
|
|
From 1968 - 1971 Jan Fry studied English and Theology at Bangor
University.
From 1975 - 1978 Jan attended Swansea College of Art where
she completed a 'Specialist Art Teachers Diploma.'
|
| |
|
"Oakwoods - Carreg Cennen"
Watercolour 24.5" x 20.5"
£450 |
| |
|
"Witches Cauldron"
Oil 30" x 31"
£750
|
A selection of
paintings and drawings can also be seen in forthcoming exhibitions
at the following galleries:
Oriel Emrys Gallery
15 High Street, Haverforwest from 1st Feb - 22nd Feb 2002.
A selection of
ceramics can also be seen at 'TOKO', Eastgate Street, Aberystwyth
(continuing for the next 12 months).
Jan Fry also exhibits
some of her silk scarves at the Makers Gallery in Cardiff
and 'Crafts Alive' in Llandeilo.
|
|
|
artcymru.co.uk
Tel. 01792 464031. |
|
|
|
JAN
FRY 
