Gareth Davies at oriel queens hall gallery, narberth

This is a new collection of superb oil paintings by Gareth Hugh Davies who lives in Llandybie Carmarthen, not a million miles from his home town Llanelli.
Born in 1962 Gareth has had a successful career as an artist. In 1990 he won the Gold Medal for Fine Art in the National Eisteddfod and since then has had exhibitions every year throughout Britain including Cardiff`(Martin Tinney Gallery) Mall Galleries, London, Mostyn, Tabernacle, and in Germany, Holland and New York.
This new body of work explores certain landscape motifs that resonate with and reference ideas beyond a simplistic reading of landscape painting. "I am interested in the disparity between what is familiar in our enviroment and its power to disturb and confront us. The meeting of light and dark elements in landscape and still life has been a recurring theme throughout my work,their meeting place a potential for reference to mythological, cultural and spiritual ideas."
Gareth has produced a stunning show of high quality, and it is a pleasure to see oil painting so well handled, and to stand in front of one of his large atmospheric landscapes and let your imagination evoke feelings of foreboding or anxiety is a skill he has accomplished and that will impress you.

The exhibition is open Wednesday to Saturday 10am-5pm until November19th.