1+ hour, 44+ min ago  (991+ words) Jon Gower meets the painter and philosopher Elizabeth Haines as her new show, Thin Places, opens in Fishguard. In the Celtic mind, thin places were places where the veil or curtain between this world and another world were a bit…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (324+ words) “Over time though, I’ve realised I want to go deeper. I want to understand more about the people that I speak to. From now on, Stranger Portraits is going to be known as Faces of Britain. “It’s going to be…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (351+ words) Joanne has been shortlisted in the coveted UK Picture Editors Guild Awards – continuing her quest to document Wales in all its diversity, this time focusing on the nation’s vibrant Ukrainian community. Joann’s image captures a stoic portrait of 15-year-old Ukrainian…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1497+ words) One of the most extraordinary things about art is its subjectivity – the limitless contrast in what might move me over what might move someone else. Throughout my lifetime, my tastes have chopped and changed, grown and developed, and I’ve gained…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (204+ words) I knew this loss of balance was relatively new. Had there been a different, earlier way of knowing in relation to the natural world? A way that we’d lost? But already modernity is pressing, and her thoroughly modern husband, Walter,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1156+ words) In a culturally just world Ivor Davies would be well-known everywhere. He is among Wales’ pre-eminent contemporary artists and has contributed enormously to rescuing Wales from a visual arts nether world where it lay for generations. Welsh art still faces…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (528+ words) Here in Wales, this time of year brings a whole bundle of traditions, superstitions and rituals linked to May Day. Many are said to reach back into the distant past, to the old pagan fire festivals that marked the changing…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (349+ words) A new solo exhibition of work from Catrin Williams will open this May, celebrating her distinctive take on life, landscape and identity in Wales. Celebration will show at Cardiff’s Celf Gallery from 2 to 31 May 2026, featuring Catrin’s characteristic colourful oil paintings…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (200+ words) The WNO 80th anniversary exhibition at Wales Millennium Centre ( installed in the upper foyer on the right of the entrance area.) is hugely enlightening. It shows a company at work with many behind the scenes glimpses showing the work and dedication…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (269+ words) On 14 April a new exhibition will open in the National Library of Wales to celebrate Curator of Photography Will Troughton’s remarkable career in collecting. ‘The Curator’s Lens: A Career in Collecting’ features a special selection of images chosen by Will…...