Gareth Hugh Davies

Gareth Hugh Davies RCA

Gareth Hugh Davies is best known for the powerful, enigmatic and haunting imagery in his paintings. The absence of the figure in familiar visual references such as pine forests, grey skies, rain clouds, urban lighting and tracks in snow enables several interpretations. “I’m interested in the the quiet drama that simple visual references can create. They can be read as meditations on the tensions between light and dark, the remote and the familiar, comfort and a sense of isolation.These pieces are also as much about our transience as our ability to transform the land in which we inhabit”

Gareth Hugh Davies trained at Dyfed College of Art, Carmarthen, Portsmouth Polytechnic and North Staffordshire Polytechnic, specialising in Stained Glass design. In 1990 he won the Gold Medal for Fine Art at The National Eisteddfod of Wales. He has exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery, with the RBA at the Mall galleries and on several occasions at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions.

His work is held in numerous private collections and the public collections of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, University of South Wales, Oriel y Bont,  and Carmarthenshire County Collection.  He lives and works in Carmarthenshire.

Awards:

Gold medal for Fine Art, National Eisteddfod, Cwm Rhymni, 1990

Collections:

Private collections throughout Britain, USA, Germany, Holland, France, and Spain. Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Swansea. Carmarthenshire County Museums Collection.

University of Glamorgan, Oriel y Bont.

Residencies: Artist in residence, Gwyl Llanelli 1992. Kieler Woche

Germany 1986


St Brides Light
Oil on Canvas
18 x 14 Inches
£595

St Davids
Oil on Canvas
24 x 20 Inches
£795

Coastline, St Brides
Oil on Canvas
8 x 8 Inches

Passing Clouds
Oil on Canvas
24 x 20 Inches

Caerfai Coast, Pembrokeshire
Oil on Canvas
7 x 5 Inches

St Davids Head Coastline
Oil on Canvas
8 x 8 Inches

Coastline Pembrokeshire
Oil on Canvas
12 x 12 Inches

Caerfai St Davids
Oil on Card
6.5 x 6.5 inches

Garn Fawr
Oil on Card
7.5 x 6 inches

Cae Ras Pentregwenlais
Oil on Board
6 x 5 inches

Meriden
Oil on Board
12 x 6 inches

Snow Day
Oil on Board
9.5 x 7 inches

Dinefwr night
Oil on Panel
5 x 7 inches

The Bright Field
Oil on Board
8 x 8 inches