Three of my paintings are being exhibited this March as part of MINERSIMPRINT at Queen Street Gallery in Neath.
MINERSIMPRINT is a collaboration between Swansea University and Swansea Print Workshop to celebrate the South Wales Miner’s Library 50th anniversary.
The exhibition runs from 1st to 29th March 2025, with the gallery opening Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm. Visit www.queenstreetgalleryneath.co.uk for more information.
I recently won First Prize in the Oxfordshire Museum Open Art Exhibition with my painting ‘Emma Groves, Belfast 1978’, which portrays a victim of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
The exhibition invited artists to submit paintings on the theme ‘Representations of people’.
“The result is wonderfully eclectic. We have a collection of people but also depictions of states that affect us as human beings too. Many different mediums are used from textiles to ink, and sculpture to photography. All are to be found in this fascinating exhibition that explores the many representations of people.” – Oxford Museum, Woodstock
The exhibition is running until Wednesday 30 October 2024. Come along and vote for your favourite in the People’s Choice Award!
This latest collection of my recent work contains a brief foray into childhood memories of comics and cowboy films followed by another slant on Welsh miners/miners’ wives against a background of churches. Also the occasional image of well known faces from the past: Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, James Dean. Then another change of direction onto cats, some known, some not. Funny how ideas develop and then fade away…where did Putin and Trump come from, for example? Strange how the mind works.
Peter Ross is a Welsh artist living in England and currently producing paintings about his childhood in South Wales in the 1950’s and 60’s.
Peter was born in Llanfrechfa, South Wales in 1941 and grew up in Newport. He now teaches life drawing to adults and exhibits his work in galleries in England and Wales. Since his time as an art student Peter has continued to paint for himself. He has always chosen themes which appealed to him at specific times such as conflict, journeys, faces and cultural/literary figures.