This year’s annual Glasbury Arts art exhibition will be part of the 2022 Celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painting, a Wales-wide series of exhibitions that launched earlier in the summer at Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Gallery and the Redhouse in Merthyr Tydfil.

The Celebration of Contemporary Welsh Painting, which continues in 12 venues across Wales until the end of February 2023, aims to give exhibition space to some of Wales’s most significant painters and those who are up and coming, as well as featuring high-quality work from students in colleges and/or schools. As it has from the beginning, the Celebration of Contemporary Welsh Painting will aim to ensure that at least 50 per cent of the featured artists are women, reflecting the many talented but previously under-represented women painting in Wales.

There will be a total of 20 artists exhibiting at Glasbury Village Hall, and they will be joined by the students of Gwernyfed High School.

Among the works on display at Glasbury this year will be a painting by Shani Rhys James, arguably the most exciting and successful Welsh painter of her generation, from the Martin Tinney Gallery and another, on loan from Cyfarthfa Castle, by David Carparini, whose drawings, paintings and etchings most focus on the natural and industrial landscapes of South Wales.

Also exhibiting, and using the medium of paint, though not applied to canvas, are Sally Matthews with a life size sculpture which promises to be as big a talking point as her pony from a previous Glasbury Arts exhibition , ceramics by Thomasin Toohie and Glasbury-based stone carver Caitriona Cartwright.

The exhibition is completed by new and returning local artists, all contemporary painters working in oil, watercolour and acrylic. They include Jennifer Allen, John Darlinson, Deborah Gillingham, Jenni Hall, Emma R Ives, Angela Hoppe Kingston, Sorrell Matei, Juliet Parker Smith, Clarissa Price, Maggy Roberts, Katherine Sheers, Tracy Thursfield, Amanda Turner, Cristine Williams and Susan Williams.

Glasbury Arts 19th Annual Art Exhibition opens on Friday, October 14 (6pm – 7.30pm) and can be seen on Saturday and Sunday, October 15 and 16 (11am to 4.30pm) and Monday and Tuesday, October 17 and 18 (10am to 4pm).

For further details visit Glasburyarts.co.uk and for full details of all 12 venues and the artists exhibiting at each visit https://www.cowcp.co.uk/