Wonderwool Wales, a weekend wool and natural fibre festival that attracts more than 6,000 visitors to the Royal Welsh Showground in Builth Wells every April, has won an award for staging the best event in Mid Wales. The festival received […]
The National Library of Wales is proud to announce that it has purchased the Salem painting on behalf of the nation, to protect and cherish it forever. The painting is today an artistic Welsh icon. Painted in 1909 by the artist Curnow Vosper, […]
The National Library of Wales is to purchase a collection of original and iconic cartoons by illustrator Mal Humphreys, a visually recognizable collection which illustrates almost every important political event in Wales since the 1990s. Mal Humphreys (Mumph) is known as one […]
Contemporary Welsh landscape painter Sarah Jane Brown will be exhibiting paintings at the Exhibition of Contemporary Welsh Art during London’s annual Welsh cultural event, Wales Week in London. This unique Wales Week celebration of Welsh art takes place at the […]
Visitors to this year’s Wonderwool Wales will be able to admire and buy beautiful, award winning woven cushions designed and made by the show’s bursary recipient, Welsh textile artist Helen Evans. The pretty, pastel-coloured houses which give Aberaeron harbour its […]
Women’s History Month in March and International Women’s Day on Thursday 8th March are opportunities to highlight some of the archives, at the Library of Wales, of the women in Wales who have excelled as composers, musicians and performers. This […]
Wonderwool Wales has set up a Bursary scheme for students graduating from the BA Textiles; knit, weave and mixed media course at Carmarthen School of Art, part of Coleg Sir Gar in Carmarthen. Students Kathleen Lloyd from Carmarthen and Julia Davies […]
A recent painting by Sarah Jane Brown titled ‘Out on a Limb’ has been chosen to join an exhibition of paintings at The Discerner Gallery, Mayfair, London. The exhibition will be on display between 15 March to 15 April 2017. […]
Artist Sarah Jane Brown to feature in Cardiff Art Exhibition ‘Be Bold for a Change’ celebrating International Women’s Day A series of landscape paintings by Sarah Jane Brown will feature in a special exhibition celebrating International Women’s Day at Off […]
Fascinating textile exhibitions at this year’s Wonderwool Wales include a knitted map of Llandysul, a felt model of Llareggub Village and displays brought together to mark the centenary of the First World War. To further commemorate the Great War there […]
