Noëlle Griffiths has chosen to
work with the painting
‘Ligeia’ acrylic on cotton duck;
244x216cm; 1978 by John Hoyland (1934-2011)
Image 1: detail of cover ‘John
Hoyland’ by Mel Gooding, published by Thames & Hudson © 2006
I leave
Hafod y Llyn listening to owls hooting, dark, pre-dawn.
7am: Oakley Arms is busy, four buses engines
running, people waiting in the dark – a transport hub, a metropolis! – a world
away from my sleeping family up the hill.
7.15am: we set off to Cardiff, Wanda and I with Andrew
driving. We are diverted into Newtown
due to flooding. Swollen rivers, the Wye
with waves like the sea.
11.15am: we arrive at the National Museum of Wales in
time to meet everyone for coffee and bara brith. There are twelve of us at the Museum. Bryony unlocks doors. I wander amongst paintings - the large ‘Ayres
Rock’ painting by Michael Andrews,
acrylic on canvas glowing as you
enter – I pass brown traditional
portraits, religious paintings, landscapes, Impressionist gems, Cezanne, Monet,
Daumier. Then we go into the closed
gallery being re-hung. Past Gwen John, Sickert in Venice, many I
didn’t have time to look at. The second
gallery alive with 20th Century paintings of colour and
non-realistic subject – Patrick Heron,
Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Karl Weschke, Ceri Richards, Keith Vaughan, Brenda
Chamberlain, Ben Nicholson, Ivon Hitchens, Adrian Heath, Graham Sutherland. Time to sketch and look at a few.
Image 2:
Noëlle sketching ‘Brown Harbour’
by Terry Frost at National Museum of Wales, 12.12.14
.....continued on Noelle Griffiths page
.....continued on Noelle Griffiths page
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