Elizabeth Cramp

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A Painter’s Diary

12 March to 3 April

 

Elizabeth, originally from Sussex, has lived in Pembrokeshire with her husband, artist Jonathon Cramp, for the last 50 years. She is well known for her major role in the design of the 100-foot Tapestry of the Last French Invasion of Britain, in Fishguard, completed in 1997.

 

Portraits, gardens, cats and vignettes from the poetry of Dylan Thomas are the subjects of these works by Elizabeth Cramp. These beautifully lyrical watercolours, based on little moments from life, include some from Elizabeth's trip to Japan when she accompanied the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra as artist in residence.

The images below are mostly details from works in the exhibition.

 

Complete images at this size do not do justice to the levels of detail in her paintings, which we have tried to show here. Elizabeth’s use of pencil and watercolour is said to be reminiscent of the work of David Jones.

 

'rain, ksauga shrine, nara' | 'the philosophers walk, kyoto'

Detail from 'from my room, hakone' | Closer detail from 'from my room, hakone'

Detail from 'a cat sleeps' | Detail from 'richard davies historian'

Detail from 'delivering cherries to a mogul' | Detail from 'delivering cherries to a mogul'

 

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