AN EXHIBITION in Cardigan that was due to close on Saturday has been extended for a further week.
Ann Fletcher-Williams has been showing her ELEMENTAL/ELFENNAIDD collection of paintings at Cardigan’s The Seagull from March 29 and was due to close on April 22, however, it will now remain open until Saturday, April 29.
Ann has only lived in Cardigan since 2022, but she has a strong connection with the Ceredigion and North Pembrokeshire areas, having holidayed regularly with her family in Newport, Pembrokeshire and the surrounding areas from the age of 15 months.
She is a fan of the hills, coast and fascinating shoreline and her paintings reflect this.
She uses mixed media including acrylic paint and collage with oil pastels, pens and pencils to highlight the shapes, textures, contrasts and hidden elements.
The paintings also explore Hiraeth, the Welsh term with a meaning akin to homesickness, longing, memory and identity. Ann said: “Hiraeth is central to everything I do and I have been hugely inspired by ‘The Long Field’ by US author Pamela Petro.
“Her wonderful memoir has enabled me to explore what Hiraeth means to me, and her evocative and atmospheric words have found their way into many of the paintings included in this exhibition.”
Pamela said: “Ann Fletcher-Williams’ paintings are profoundly resonant of both landscape and memory. Through her marks and pastings, her rubbings and scrapings, and her use of text as well, snippets of which often appear half obscured or buried, Fletcher-Williams has given us works of topographic depth that is both literal and emotional.
“These are paintings that touch the soul.”
The exhibition features 30 paintings inspired by Carningli Mountain, The Parrog in Newport and Ann’s wanderings since moving to the area.
There will also be a new poem from Welsh poet and writer Simone Mansell Broome, composed specifically for the exhibition and reflecting on her father’s ambivalent Welshness.
The Seagull is open from 11am to 4pm, Wednesday to Saturday and is free to enter.
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