Bronwyn Williams-Ellis
Bronwyn Williams-Ellis, Cultivation
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Bronwyn Williams-Ellis, Spring Crop
1 - 30 September 2007
Entitled Land:forms, this exhibition by Bronwyn Williams-Ellis
explores alternative perspectives on landscape and relates them to
the human form.
The artist's inspiration has been drawn from the West country
landscape near her studio in Bath and her Welsh roots to produce
lively, colourful semi-sculptural pieces that are striking in any
interior space.
By working with the surface, shaping, incising, applying coloured
clay slips and occasional glazing, Bronwyn creates strong images
that reference both the figure and seasonal landscape -
hills, valleys, field patterns. This content, these forms and
colours break major new ground in Bronwyn’s work.
Firing the pieces in the kiln - always an unpredictable process -
yields further changes: water elements emerge as a soft aqua,
frosty whites are revealed and the deep terracotta of turned earth
is discovered.
According to Jon Benington, Manager of the Council-run Victoria Art
Gallery: "It is amazing how Bronwyn manages to inject dynamic
movement into an inherently static material such as clay. She
achieves this by making her bold designs flow across multiple
'fragments' of clay. It will be a refeshing change to see the
Gallery's walls covered with organically shaped ceramic pieces as
opposed to flat, foursquare canvases."
After graduating with a BA and MA in Fine Art from Cardiff
College of Art, Bronwyn has gained a wide reputation nationally for
her work - public and private commissions, exhibitions in Bath,
Cardiff, St Ives, Aldeburgh and North Wales amongst others.
She has lived and worked in Bath for the last twenty years making
individual low fired architectural pieces for exhibition or to
commission. She is a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy