We’re delighted to be launching our Spring exhibitions with new work by Darren Hughes. Darren approaches the landscape with a contemporary realism and honesty. This exhibition of charcoal and mixed media drawings, oil paintings and drypoint etching prints explore native places for the artist – with views of Bethesda, Anglesey and the Irish Sea.
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“The pieces in the exhibition are responses to where I live in and around Bethesda, and also to Pentraeth on Anglesey where I grew up.”
“The quarry hospital in Bethesda is an important building in so many ways. It was the first hospital on the quarry premises and also the first place in North Wales to perform surgery with anaesthetic. It also helped many people injured whilst climbing in the Ogwen. As part of the Lôn Las Ogwen now its crumbling ruins have a completely different atmosphere. Set back in trees, it is a place of stillness and quiet, a place which draws you in. It is a completely different type of space within the landscape and a place that I needed to explore.”
“The beach in Pentraeth has always held a special interest and energy for me. As my childhood home, I spent nearly all my time on the beach and in and around the landscape there and even though it’s a place I know well, it’s somewhere I felt I’d not really explored enough in terms of subject. It is a completely different type of landscape and terrain to that which I am used to… far removed from the hills of Bethesda.”
“The images are grounded in observation, reflecting upon the energy and atmosphere of the places and certain memories. Photography has played a small part in exploring these ideas and I find I respond to photography’s stillness – that moment captured in time; of the world, but separate. It is this feeling that also permeates some of the locations used within the images. So this new work is a beginning, not only in terms of exploring a new type of landscape, but also in terms of approaching my practice and use of processes and materials.”
Work can be purchased by contacting 01248 353 368 or [email protected]
'Sky above Bethesda' | Oil on canvas | 30x30cm | £1500
'Above Red Wharf Bay' | Oil on board | 50x20cm | £1400
'Summer, Bethesda 2020' | Oil on Dibond panel | 19.5x21cm | £950
'Edge of Bryn Quarry' | Oil on canvas | 30x30cm | £1500
'Estuary flats midday' | Oil on Dibond panel | 150x50cm | £3200
'Estuary, Traeth Coch (Study)' | Oil on linen | 30x20cm | £1200
'Full tide' | Oil on board | 50x20cm | £1400
'Looking back towards home' | Oil on Dibond panel | 80x30cm | £1800
'Machlud Cilfoden' | Oil on Dibond panel | 15x15cm | £800
'Mis Mawrth, Cilfoden' | Oil on Dibond panel | 15x15cm | £800
'Morning Estuary, treath coch' | Oil on canvas | 119.5x30.5cm | £2500
'Morning sky below Moel Faban' | Oil on panel | 24x18cm | £950
'On the ridge, Moel Faban' | Oil on panel | 24x18cm | £950
'Pantdreinog, Bethesda' | Oil on Dibond panel | 15x15cm | £850
'Pool study, Traeth Coch' | Oil on Dibond panel | 42x29.7cm | £1600
'Quarry sunset' | Oil on Dibond panel | 15x15cm | SOLD
'Sky blue morning' | Oil on Dibond panel | 150x50cm | £3200
'Summer evening, Tan-y-Foel' | Oil on panel | 24x18cm | £950
'Storm, Traeth Coch' | Oil on canvas | 75x50cm | £2300
'Summer, Glan Morfa' | Oil on Dibond panel | 80x30cm | £1800
'Sunrise, Corwen' | Oil on canvas | 75x50cm | £2300
'Y corpwll, traeth Pentreath' | Oil on canvas | 75x50cm | £2300
'Tide on the flood (the wreck)' | Oil on linen | 30x20cm | £1200
'These are the woods (study)' | Oil on board | 50x20cm | £1400
'These are the woods' | Charcoal on paper | 237x121cm | £3000
'Glan Morfa' | Mixed media on paper | 152.5x121.8cm | £2300
'Walking out' | Charcoal on paper | 154x121.5cm | £2300
'Ysbyty chwarel' | Mixed media on paper | 152.5x121.5cm | £2300
'Ysbyty Chwarel, Spring light' | Oil on canvas | 105x200cm | £7950
'Ysbyty chwarel, winter light' | Oil on canvas | 76x101.5cm | £3000
'Ysbyty Chwarel I ( 2nd state)' | Etching on copper | £225
'Ysbyty chwarel II (3rd State)' | Etching on copper | SOLD
'Towards Llanddona' | Etching and drypoint on Aluminium | SOLD
'Llanddona storm' | Etching and drypoint on Aluminium | £160
'Dying light, Pentraeth' | Etching and drypoint on Aluminium | £250
'Ysbyty Chwarel nocturne I' | Etching and drypoint on Aluminium | £150
'Ysbyty Chwarel nocturne ll' | Etching and drypoint on Aluminium | £160
'Ysbyty Chwarel Nocturne III' | Etching and drypoint on Aluminium | £160
