Gwilym Prichard RCA
Biography
Born in Llanystumdwy, near Criccieth, in 1931, Gwilym Prichard has become one of Wales’ most fondly admired and respected artists. His dramatic and colourful landscape paintings of North Wales and the Pembrokeshire coastline, often painted using a palette-knife, are reminiscent of his great friend, the late Sir Kyffin Williams’, work. Indeed, Gwilym has often been described, with more than a hint of truth, as ‘Kyffin with colour’. Whether he is painting Cader Idris bathed in sunlight, or Tenby harbour on a summer’s evening, these glowing paintings communicate his love of the Welsh landscape with vision and integrity.
Now a full-time resident of his native Wales, Gwilym spent many years living in Brittany, France, where he has exhibited regularly, and is also widely admired. In 1995 he was awarded the Silver Medal by the French Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters. He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales. A recent huge increase in interest in his work has seen his sales soar, and he is widely regarded as the successor to Sir Kyffin Williams as Wales' most sought-after living landscape painter.
Collections
Arts Council of Wales
Contemporary Arts Society of Wales
Government Art Collection
Lincoln College, Oxford
National Library of Wales
Nuffield Foundation
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
University of Wales, Bangor
Private Collections worldwide
Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales
Bywgraffiad
Wedi ei eni yn Llanystumdwy, ger Criccieth, ym 1931, mae Gwilym Prichard wedi datblygu yn un o hoff arlunwyr Cymru, ac yn fawr ei barch. Mae ei beintiadau dramatig a lliwgar o Ogledd Cymru ac o arfordir Sir Benfro, yn aml wedi eu peintio â chyllell-palet, yn atgofus o waith ei ffrind mawr, Sir Kyffin Williams. Yn wir, disgrifir Gwilym yn aml, gyda mwy na arlliw o wirionedd, fel ‘Kyffin gyda lliw’. O Gader Idris wedi ei ymdrochi yn yr heulwen i borthladd Dinbych y Pysgod ar noswaith o Haf, mae’r paentiadau yma yn mynegi ei gariad o dirlun Cymru gyda gweledigaeth a gonestrwydd.
Dros yr ugain mlynedd diwethaf, mae Gwilym wedi rhannu ei amser rhwng ei Gymru frodorol a Llydaw yn Ffrainc, lle mae wedi arddangos yn rheolaidd. Ym 1995 dyfarnwyd iddo Fedal Arian gan Academi Celf, Gwyddoniaeth a Llenyddiaeth Ffrainc. Mae yn Gymrawd Anrhydeddus o Brifysgol Cymru. Mae gwerthiant ei waith wedi cynyddu'n ddiweddar, ac yntai'n cael ei weld yn dilynnydd Syr Kyffin Williams fel artist tirluniau mwyaf nodedig a pobolgaidd Cymru.
Casgliadau
Cyngor y Celfyddydau Cymru
Cymdeithas Gelfyddyd Gyfoes Cymru
Sefydliad Nuffield
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth
Prifysgol Cymru Bangor
Coleg Lincoln, Rhydychen
Casgliadau preifat ledled y byd
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