Exhibition – Artisan Painters
Tue. December 13, 2011
We braved the weather yesterday to visit the excellent Artisan Painters exhibition at Plas-Glyn-Y-Weddw in Llanbedrog, Pwllelli on the Llyn Peninsula. The exhibition has been organised by Peter Lord, (whose great wealth of work on Welsh art is worth exploring if you haven’t already) who has brought together a collection by this “little known story of the artisan painter and their middle class patrons” (introduction by Peter Lord to the catalogue from the exhibition).
The exhibition only runs until the end of December. Peter Lord explains why the profile of the Welsh Artisan Painter has been neglected whilst in the United States the work of the American artisan painter was appreciated from the 1920’s. As a result their work is exhibited far more widely and is highly valued by collectors.