| My Background |
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Page 5 of 5  I exhibit regularly in other places and travel frequently. As an artist I need constant visual input to transmute into my work. One of these trips in 1999 was to Cuba with a BBC Wales crew from “The Slate” who filmed half in Solva and half there a documentary called ‘A Long Journey Home’. It was exciting but bewildering too to suddenly find myself back in Cuba after an eight year gap - a bit like waking up after a coma. Many of my friends and fellow artists had left Cuba or had died. It could never be the same again. I had become a British citizen early in the 90’s and now I am that and will always live here.
In Cuba art is part of community life and I would like to be part of that here. In December 2003/January 2004 St David’s Cathedral, 3 miles from our home, allowed me to hold a one man exhibition titled 'The Passion' of religious iconographic paintings and installations in St Mary’s Hall adjacent to the Cathedral itself. Several of the local schools bought parties of children along and it felt then as it used to in Cuba like art really being part of life here. Since then I have exhibited abroad but have also made a point of working within Wales for this is where I have found my home. Wales has changed the accent of my palette slightly and has allowed me the freedom to paint and be myself. |