Ffocws #9

Explore the vibrant art scene of Wales through this dynamic series of changing retail showcases, spotlighting artists living and working in North Wales. About This dynamic series of changing retails showcases shine a spotlight on artists living and working in the region. Each curated display presents an exciting opportunity to discover and purchase artworks from the gifted artists of North Wales. Caroline Race is a painter and printmaker based in Colwyn Bay and Liverpool. She trained in Fine Art at Bangor University and went on to finish her degree through The Wirral Met and John Moores. Caroline was trained by Professor Mike Knowles and David Loten RCA. She specialises in paper lithograph, oil painting and drawing. Her work has been published in a-n Magazine Artist's Newsletter and she was also shortlisted for the Wales Portrait award. Caroline also makes artists books which have been exhibited in America as well as touring this country. Living in a small village near Corwen, Carys is inspired by the rural sceneries, farmland, building structures, places of wilderness, seeped in nature, in ever shifting light and colours throughout the seasons. Carys experiments with various medias, often a collage is the foundation they build on, then acrylics, inks, pastels etc, coating the surface with encaustic wax, scratching into the surface before adding oil paint to settle in the grooves and discovering exciting effects and underlayers. There is comfort in the colours and textures to be garnered from the land and in Carys' creative process. Ever striving to capture the essence of Home, "home" that can be physical or spiritual, as well as sense of coming home to the self that can be felt. Mary was a primary school teacher for 34 years. Since her retirement she has developed her Alternative Photography practice, driven by an innate curiosity and experimentation with the Victorian photographic processes Cyanotype and Lumen prints. Mary works from her home studio in a small village on the bank of the river Conwy overlooking the Carneddau mountains. Through experimentation Mary has created a technique using expired darkroom papers, cyanotype solution and various household ingredients to produce original one-off pieces of work. She often uses natural plant materials, Victorian illustrations and her own photographs to create her prints. Read more Toggle Prints Drawing Mixed media Painting Photography