Attic Gallery’s May/June exhibition featuring Two Welsh painters, Chris Griffin and Paul Rees “Realms of Colour and Shadow Exhibition”
Chris Griffin was born in Maesycwmmer in the Rhymney valley. He graduated from Gloucestershire College of Art Cheltenham in 1972 and obtained his Masters degree from the Royal College of Art in 1975. He became a full-time artist in 1977 and has been showing his work across South Wales ever since. He has exhibited regularly at the Attic Gallery since 1998.
The landscape of South Wales has been a constant source of subject matter for most of Griffin’s painting career. He has developed a technique and a colour range which allows him to create a very personal and dynamic response to the landscape he knows deeply. In using such rich and emotional colour, the paintings often develop into lyrical expressions of the Welsh landscape.
Paul Rees was born in Pontypool in 1971 and now lives in Neath. He became a primary school teacher after graduating in 1993 and went on to study Theatre Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. In 2008 he achieved a first class honours degree in Fine Art at Swansea Metropolitan University. He continues to paint professionally alongside his teaching career.
Rees has shown work across Wales as well as the North of England. He has exhibited continually at Attic Gallery since 2007 and this is his second major exhibition at the gallery.
