Seren Morgan Jones
How old are you? 33
Where are you from? now live in London
Tell us a little known fact about yourself: I played the violin from the ages of four to 18 years of age.
continue to explore how feminism and race work within the Welsh identity and how I see it as someone who is both Welsh and has not lived in Wales for over a decade.
All my work starts from a purely painterly point and with each new piece I try to find more new textures, techniques, colours and materials to my aesthetic. Fashion, from couture to nail art, has heavily influenced my recent work but it continues to be rooted within the traditional Aberystwyth and I
portrait painting tradition. Q
When is it running from/to?
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The show, launched on Sunday, July 21 and is running until Wednesday, August 14.
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What can people expect?
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Being located at the heart of this year’s National Eisteddfod, the award-winning Ffin y Parc Gallery is hosting a special exhibition this month celebrating Welsh Women artists.
The show features new work by myself, landscape painter Sarah Carvell and mixed media artist Luned Rhys Parri RCA. This show runs alongside a Summer Mixed exhibition of work by some of the gallery’s most popular artists including Katie Allen, Martin Jones and David Grosvenor to name a few.
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Tell us five things which make your exhibition great?
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Although there aren’t that many paintings the ones that are there are visual, rich and thick with technique and hard work. Q
Tell us what’s good about the venue
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What’s not to love, set in the beautiful Snowdonia national park and it’s a stunning building that Ralph and everyone there have worked really hard to create a wonderful space filled with a wide range of art, plus the coffee’s good.
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Who is your favourite artist and why?
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It’s an impossible question to answer but recently I’ve really been enjoying Kerry James Marshall, Paul Wackers, Otto Dix, Laura Owens. Q
What piece of work are you most proud of and why?
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There are a few for different reasons but at the moment I’m really pleased with ‘Morfudd mewn Gaultier’.
QWhat’s next for you? What are you currently working on, or plan to work on?
I have a few commissions I need to do and some more ideas in the same vein of this body of work.
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