An exhibition of works by landscape painter, Clyde Holmes (1940-2008).
Clyde was born in London and studied fine art at Hornsey College of Art and St Martin’s School of Art 1965-68.
In 1970 Clyde moved with his family to a remote shepherd’s cottage in Capel Celyn, Frongoch, near Bala in Snowdonia National Park, where he lived for over 30 years, painting and writing poetry about the landscape around him.
Clyde’s work featured in ‘Visions of Snowdonia’ series, narrated by Sir Anthony Hopkins.
His works have been exhibited widely in England, Wales and Europe as well as in public and private collections in the UK and abroad.
“My painting is concerned with expressing the mystery and power of the wilder aspects of the landscape which we’re all part of – there’s no difference between nature outside us and nature inside us.
“In my exhibitions I bring together (in a variety of ways) the two halves of my work, poetry and painting. In my painting I’ve been attempting to express the silent dialogue between light and dark. We all live somewhere between lightness and darkness.
“Constable said that landscape was just another word for feeling. I’m trying to communicate these mood swings of the ‘uplandscapes’ of Snowdonia through cloud-shadow flaring, wavering, interfolding and gesturing – the rhythms informing the shapes on the slopes. The uplands are full of wind and light working off one another, a constant flux of light and shadow.”
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