Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Until Sat 17 Feb
The Elysium Gallery in Swansea is hosting a trip down memory lane with Tim Warren’s artistic depictions of the connection between location and memory. Awarded a Beep painting prize in 2016, his works contain significant use of colour and texture, with the aim of being open to visual interpretation. In this series he explores the emotional response created through viewing remembered places, and has produced a number of various paint-based landscapes to achieve this.
Warren grew up in Penarth and was inspired by the various colours of the sea, sand and mud of his childhood beach, which sparked the idea to portray these memories through artistic representations. Using paint, he has produced textured illustrations, each brush stroke symbolising remembered experiences and the places associated with them. But rather than recreating specific landscapes, he has chosen to use generic scenes. This choice was made with the intention of displaying works of art that can be accessible to people of all walks of life, due to the connection between place and memory being a relatable concept. He wishes to spark an emotional response through the pieces and portray an atmosphere he describes as “a slightly altered reality”.
Admission: Free. Info: 07980 925 449 / https://www.elysiumgallery.com/ (KW)