Gwilym Prichard

Gwilym Arifor Prichard (né Pritchard, 4 March 1931 – 7 June 2015) was a Welsh landscape painter.

Born in the village of Llanystumdwy, near Criccieth, Gwynedd, he studied at Bangor Normal College (1951-3) before moving on to Birmingham College of Art]], before becoming a teacher in Anglesey. He married fellow artist Claudia Williams in 1953, and altered the spelling of his surname when he discovered that there was another painter of the same name.[1] Noted for his "dramatic and colourful" depictions of "dense, craggy, often formidable landscapes" with "a three-dimensional quality",[1] his paintings "managed to display his joy in the richness and beauty of his native land".[2] He started to become successful during the 1960s, and in 1970 he was elected to the Royal Cambrian Academy.[2]

After leaving paid employment in the early 1970s, he became a full-time painter. In the early 1980s the couple began travelling through Europe, living for periods in Skiathos, Greece and Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, before settling in Pembrokeshire in 1999.[3] Prichard was awarded the Silver Medal by the Société Académique des Arts-Sciences-Lettres de Paris in 1995, and was an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales.[2] In later years he was regarded as the senior living Welsh landscape painter.[4] A major exhibition of his work was held in Cardiff in 2013,[5] and a monograph detailing his work, A Lifetime's Gazing, was published the same year.[6][3]

He died at his home near Tenby in 2015.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Book review: Gwilym Prichard, Claudia Williams: A perfect picture of when love and art collide", The Independent, 22 September 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2015
  2. 1 2 3 4 Gwilym Prichard, Martin Tinney Gallery. Retrieved 7 June 2015
  3. 1 2 Karen Price, "Capturing Wales: One of our best-loved artists is celebrated with a new book and major exhibition", WalesOnline, 22 April 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2015
  4. ↑ "Renowned landscape artist Gwilym Prichard dies", BBC News, 7 June 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2015
  5. ↑ "Artist Gwilym Prichard's exhibition opens in Cardiff", BBC News, 12 April 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2015
  6. ↑ Amy McCauley, Review of Gwilym Prichard: A Lifetime’s Gazing by Harry Heuser and Robert Meyrick, New Welsh Review, issue 100, 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2015
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