PETER PRENDERGAST
Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff
Wed 11 Mar-Thurs 2 Apr
Martin Tinney Gallery, in St Andrew’s Crescent near Cathays, shows a selection of paintings and drawings by Abertridwr-born artist Peter Prendergast (1946-2007) this month. Prendergast is something of a household name, known for his bold, abstract expressionist paintings inspired by his home surroundings in Snowdonia. He was fiercely proud of his Welsh heritage and, in the art world, is noted as a leading post-war landscape painter due to the spirit and dynamism of his work – and how the appeal of his pictures stretches much further afield.
Born to an Irish Catholic coalmining father and a Cardiff-born mother, Prendergast trained at Cardiff College Of Art and the Slade School Of Fine Art, where he was tutored and mentored by figurative and expressionist painter Frank Auerbach, as well as studying under Francis Bacon, Sir William Coldstream and Jeffrey Camp. He moved to Bethesda in north Wales in 1969 with his wife, teaching art part-time to pay his way. Today, his work is exhibited in many public and private collections, including the Tate Gallery and National Museum Wales. This exhibition will consist of 25 selected paintings and drawings, all of which are for sale.
Admission: free. Info: 029 2064 1411 / www.artwales.com (RHu)