Our Artists
Hello and welcome to the Attic Gallery. The Attic is the Oldest privately owned gallery in Wales, having a special interest in Welsh Contemporary art being and formed in 1962
Many significant Welsh artists have exhibited with us and continue to do so
This site contains the current list of active artists represented by the Gallery
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Our Artists
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Alan Figg
Alan Figg
My first experience of printmaking occurred in 1960 when, as a student at Swansea College of Art, I pursued courses in Lithography and Stained Glass design.
Whilst quite dissimilar crafts they nevertheless proved to be a happy combination requiring particular symbiotic design skills. After graduating in 1963 I taught in schools in Bournemouth and Swansea until my retir
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Alan Williams
Alan Williams was born in Swansea in 1951 and discovered printmaking in the mid-90s during his University Of Wales Graphic Art BA. He was immediately attracted to the creative possibilities offered by the various print processes.
Soon after graduating, he went on to co-found the Swansea Print Workshop which over the last 15 years has developed into a major resource for the South Wa
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Aled Prichard-Jones
Aled Prichard-Jones was born and brought up in Bangor and worked in Pembrokeshire as a Chief Architect until retirement in 2000.
He then took up painting full time and is now an established artist working in both oils and pastel living back home in his native North Wales.
“Pastels allow me to work quickly and the bright colours are useful to emphasise the variable effects
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Annie Giles Hobbs
ANNIE
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Anthony Douglas-Jones
Tony was born in Selkirk, Scotland but spent his childhood in Penarth, Wales. He began painting at the age of sixteen, working in oils for thirty years before turning to watercolour. He graduated with a degree in Zoology from Cambridge University before studying for a medical degree involving clinical studies at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. Subsequently, he moved to New
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Brenda Hartill
Brenda Hartill is an innovative British painter / printmaker based in East Sussex where she has a studio.
Her working time is also spent in her studio in the Andalucian mountain village of Gaucin in Southern Spain, and on visits to the wilds of New Zealand where she was brought up. Her work explores the texture, pattern and light of landscape, and ranges from finely drawn figurative wor
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Carole Jury
Carole Jury was born in Kent and moved to West Wales from London in 1969. Here she was employed for some years as a restorer of antique ceramics. She has no formal art education and is mostly self taught. She has exhibited regularly in both solo and mixed shows across Wales. "I started painting with oils about 30 years ago and have never looked back. I love the smell and texture of the oil paints -
Carolyn Little
Carolyn Little was born in Swansea in 1943 but grew up in Haverfordwest.
She studied at Swansea College of Art from 1962 until 1966, then taught Art in secondary schools in London and Swansea.
In 1990 she gave up full-time teaching to become a part-time adult education lecturer for the University of Wales Swansea and to concentrate on painting. She is now retired but continues t
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Chris Williams
Chris Williams MRBS
His current practice draws inspiration from both terrestrial and astronomical landscapes. The post industrial landscape of South Wales where he is now based has inspired him to make work that explores the man made altered land which is still evident decades after it was returned to nature.
This work is carved from natural timber and responds to the random nat
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David Bellamy
Born in Pembroke, David travels widely in search of subjects to paint and is especially fascinated by mountains, the Arctic in its various moods, and desert scenery in the Middle East. In his search for subjects to paint he has fallen over a crocodile in Kenya, sketched on dog-sledges in Greenland, drawn moonlight scenes on a glacier in his underwear and taught Maasai warriors to sketch in Tanz