When the Roads Meet

Cover Tai Chi Retreat of Tenerife 2014 oil on canvas 80 x 90cm

Above Dan Llywelyn Hall Photo: Richard Brewis 2014

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When the Roads Meet5 July to 14 September 2014

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Copyright © 2014 Dan Llywelyn Hall

Foreword © Rachel Campbell Johnston

Photograph of Dan Llywelyn Hall: Richard Brewis 2014

Published by Sladers Yard Ltd, West Bay, Bridport DT6 4EL

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmittedin any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the artist.

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FoREWoRD

Dan Llywelyn Hall follows a tradition which first flourished amid the dreams of the Romantics. He is part of that visionary lineage of painters for whom the world was suffused by the mind of its seer, for whom landscape became an embodiment of human feeling and thought. It was this spirit of immanence which such British artists as Turner and Constable were aiming to capture; which their succession of followers from Samuel Palmer through John Piper and Graham Sutherland to Paul Nash all set out to evoke.

Reflections of such predecessors may be glimpsed in Llywelyn Hall’s work along with those of other formative influences as varied as the impetuous passions of Chaim Soutine or the simplified patterns of Henri Matisse. But, drawn together in the bright, sometimes hazily nebulous, sometimes wilfully jarring, surfaces of Llywelyn Hall’s paintings, they work to conjure a fresh, idiosyncratic and fundamentally modern mood.

Llywelyn Hall works rapidly, often out of doors in fast drying gouache or acrylic. But even when it comes to oil works done in the studio, few take more than two or three sittings to complete. This immediacy is important. Llywelyn Hall builds up his images with wandering lines and thin washes of colour, bold swipes of bright pigment and big all-but unmodulated blobs. He is not interested in detailing the minutiae. Rather he sets out to capture a sense of atmosphere afresh. What his paintings show is not the world which surrounds us as a camera might record it, but a landscape as it captures a moment of experience. Llywelyn Hall paints a world haunted by his own memories.

Is memory everything we keep or everything that we lose? The experiences that shape us are quintessentially transient. And yet they are always fixed in a place, the artist explains. When we recall them we recall also their location. These are not just places he paints, but specific moments.

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Sometimes he highlights their transience. A figure is caught poised in a momentary mid-handstand balance; a half-smoked cigarette smoulders on a window sill. These are images, the artist reminds us, of fleeting fragments of time. But more frequently, this awareness of time’s passing is more broadly pervasive. The world is mutable. It is altered and adapted by each changing age. Llywelyn Hall is no picturesque painter, blotting out traces of the present as he searches for scenic perfections. Rather he tends to prefer modern subjects from the wind farms which have been planted like giant daisies upon the moors and the mountain-sides of his native Wales through to the final flight of Concorde as it cuts through an autumn sunset.

Llywelyn Hall’s images belong to those elusive hinterlands which lie somewhere between the ostensible subjects of his pictures - the trees, stones or mountains, the sunbathing girls or wind turbines or tents which he plonks down unabashedly in the middle of his pictures - and the shadowy atmospheres which he conjures around them through the way that he paints. Even as images emerge before the eye, they dissolve back again into the landscapes of the mind.

It seems no accident that a recurrent motif in Llyweln Hall’s work is a winding path looping its way like some meandering perspective line towards the furthermost horizons. This is an artist who leads his spectators beyond the frame of his pictures into a land of imagination, into a place in which the looker may wander and wonder and eventually get lost.

Rachel Campbell JohnstonArt Critic, The Times

5The Wreckage of Carnedd Llewelyn II

2008 oil and collage on canvas 90 x 90cm

6Spectacle for a Diving Mob, Cassis 2013 acrylic on panel 15 x 15cm

7Camaraderie at Water’s Edge 2013 oil on canvas 80 x 90cm

8In Amongst the Firs

2007 oil on canvas 30 x 40cm

9Retreating Glacier

2008 oil and acrylic on panel 57 x 85cm

10Snowdrift

2009 oil on canvas 40 x 50cm

11Wistful Track

2013 acrylic on canvas 60 x 75cm

12Pink Haze

2012 watercolour and ink on paper 14.8 x 21cm

13Blue Lagoon

2013 oil on canvas 122 x 122cm

14Harvest of the New World

2010 oil on canvas 81 x 41cm

15Solar Twilight

2008 oil on canvas 40 x 50cm

16March of the Elements

2010 oil on wood panel 40 x 48cm

17A Walk With Pierre

2014 oil and acrylic on canvas 46 x 55cm

18Femme Eche

2008 oil on paper 66 x 41cm

19Eden of the Canaries

2013 oil on canvas 100 x 108cm

20Lone Ranger of Les Beaux

2013 watercolour on panel 14 x 22cm

21Brecon Ascent

2009 oil on canvas 40.5 x 30cm

22Wishing Well

2007 oil on canvas 61 x 81cm

236pm at Millennium Bridge

2012 acrylic on canvas 46 x 55cm

24Time by the River

2009 oil on wood panel 32 x 39cm

25Another Night Café

2014 oil on canvas 75 x 50cm

26End of the Conversation

2013 ink on panel 20 x 20cm

27The Land of Sedef

2013 oil on canvas 90 x 90cm

28The Remote Letter

2012 ink on paper 25 x 25cm

29Supply and Demand in Cannes

2014 oil and acrylic on canvas 46 x 61cm

30La Défense

2009 watercolour on paper 14 x 8cm

31Raising of the Cross

2005 acrylic on canvas 87 x 97cm

32Anticipation at the Arch

2012 pencil and watercolour on paper 14.8 x 21cm

33Bandstand and the Kiosk

2014 oil and acrylic on canvas 46 x 61cm

34Final View at No. 5

2012 watercolour and ink on paper 25 x 25cm

35Clarity

2014 oil and acrylic on canvas 60 x 75cm

36Vanduara of Swansea

2008 oil on canvas 60 x 60cm

37Motif on Autumn Sky

2007 oil on canvas 76.5 x 61cm

38Bypass

2007 oil on panel 50 x 24cm

39Awaiting a Spectacle at the Neuadd Reservoir

2014 oil on canvas 49 x 72cm

40Timestones

2008 oil and pastel on panel 35 x 45cm

Dan Llywelyn Hall

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1980 Born in Cardiff

2003 Graduated from University of Westminster

2003 – present Lives and works in London

Awards / Commissions

2013 Commissioned by the Welsh Rugby Union to paint HM The Queen

2009 Portrait of Harry Patch ‘The last Tommy ’commissioned by the British Legion. Painting was shortlisted and used as publicity image for BP Portrait Award.

2001, 2004 Shortlisted for Welsh Artist of the Year

2003 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Young Artist of the Year

Collections

Royal Collection, Imperial War Museum (London), Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Contemporary Art Society of Wales, Museum of Modern Art Wales, House of Lords, National Library of Wales, BT’s corporate collection, Barclays’ corporate collection, Tenby Museum & Gallery, Newport Museum & Gallery, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, WRU, private collections throughout Europe.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013 ‘Vantage Point’ – Recent work, Gallery Petit with Sandra Higgins

2011 ‘Art for Wales’: Contemporary Art Society of Wales Distribution Exhibition, MoMA Wales

2009 MoMA Wales, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth

‘Armistice to Afghanistan: Help the Heroes’ Tower Bridge Business Centre

‘Juxtapositions’, Old Speech Room Gallery, Harrow School, London

2007 BBC Wales ‘Onshow Gallery’, Cardiff

‘Recent Works on Paper’ Roman Black Gallery, London

‘Matter of Time’ Oriel Washington Gallery, Cardiff

2005 ‘Contemporary Celtic Landscape’ Washington Gallery, Penarth

2004/5 ‘Wales, Dead or Alive?’ collaboration with poet Owen Sheers – BBC Wales, Cardiff Denbighshire Council, North Wales touring exhibition: Ruthin Library, Colwin Bay Library, Brecknock Museum, Brecon, Washington Gallery, Penarth, Euroart Gallery, Tottenham

2004 ‘Recent Paintings’ Martin’s Gallery, Cheltenham

2000 ‘Llareggub: after Dylan Thomas’ Gallery 47, Bloomsbury, London

Selected Group Exhibitions2010 ‘Art of Giving’, Saatchi Gallery, London

BP Portrait Award 2009, Dean Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland

‘A Critics Choice’ curated by Andrew Lambirth, Browse and Darby, London

2009 BP Portrait Award 2009, Southampton City Art Gallery

‘Transfiguration 3’, National Gallery & Museum of Wales

‘Transfiguration 4’, Guildhall Art Gallery, London

2008 Wales Portrait Award 2 touring exhibition

RWS/ Sunday Times Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London

‘Transfiguration 1’, Tenby Museum

‘Transfiguration 2’, Roman Black Gallery, London

2007 London Art Fair (also 2006) and Art London, Roman Black Gallery

Frieze Art Fair, ‘Unfrieze’ commissioned project alongside Tate partners and galleries including Victoria Miro, White Cube and Gagosian Gallery

2006 Singer & Friedlander/ Sunday Times Competition, The Mall Gallery, London

2005 Albemarle Gallery, London, ‘Winter Salon’

2004 Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, London

2003 Singer & Friedlander/ Sunday Times Competition, The Mall Gallery, London and Manchester Town Hall

Welsh Artist of the Year Award, St David’s Hall, Cardiff

2001 Welsh Artist of the Year Award, St David’s Hall, Cardiff

Dan Llywelyn Hall

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Oils on canvas / panel Tai Chi Retreat of Tenerife 2014 oil on canvas 80 x 90cm front cover

Eden of the Canaries 2013 oil on canvas 100 x 108cm p.19

The Land of Sedef 2013 oil on canvas 90 x 90cm p.27

Blue Lagoon 2013 oil on canvas 122 x 122cm p.13

Another Night Café 2014 oil on canvas 75 x 50cm p.25

Clarity 2014 oil and acrylic on canvas 60 x 75cm p.35

Camaraderie at Water’s Edge 2013 oil on canvas 80 x 90cm p.7

Awaiting a Spectacle at the Neuadd Reservoir 2014 oil on canvas 49 x 72cm p.39

Major Oak 2006 oil on canvas 66 x 92cm

The Wreckage of Carnedd Llewelyn II 2008 oil and collage on canvas 90 x 90cm p.5

Supply and Demand in Cannes 2014 oil and acrylic on canvas 46 x 61cm p.29

Bandstand and the Kiosk 2014 oil and acrylic on canvas 46 x 61cm p.33

Motif on Autumn Sky 2007 oil on canvas 76.5 x 61cm p.37

Vanduara of Swansea 2008 oil on canvas 60 x 60cm p.36

A Walk With Pierre 2014 oil and acrylic on canvas 46 x 55cm p.17

Return to the Black Mountains 2014 oil on canvas 65 x 75cm back cover

Retreating Glacier 2008 oil and acrylic on panel 57 x 85cm p.9

Red Anecdote 2014 oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm

Hillside Enigma 2007 oil on canvas 50 x 50cm

Wishing Well 2007 oil on canvas 61 x 81cm p.22

Sheeptrack Highway 2014 oil on canvas 40 x 50cm

Residue at the Foothills 2014 oil on canvas 40 x 50cm

Solar Twilight 2008 oil on canvas 40 x 50cm p.15

Harvest of the New World 2010 oil on canvas 81 x 41cm p.14

March of the Elements 2010 oil on wood panel 40 x 48cm p.16

The Paradise Ideal 2011 oil on canvas 46.5 x 86.5cm

Study for Power and Progress 2010 oil on canvas 50.5 x 40.5cm

Snowdrift 2009 oil on canvas 40 x 50cm p.10

Sunrise Bathers 2008 oil on panel 37 x 58.5cm

Brecon Ascent 2009 oil on canvas 40.5 x 30cm p.21

Time by the River 2009 oil on wood panel 32 x 39cm p.24

Timestones 2008 oil and pastel on panel 35 x 45cm p.40

In Amongst the Firs 2007 oil on canvas 30 x 40cm p.8

Symphony in Blue 2009 oil on wood 40 x 38cm

Bypass 2007 oil on panel 50 x 24cm p.38

Lists of WorksAll works can be viewed online at www.sladersyard.co.uk

Back cover Return to the Black Mountains 2014 oil on canvas 65 x 75cm

Beacon of the Night 2010 oil on canvas 30.5 x 25cm

Green Avenue of Aix 2010 oil on canvas 30.5 x 25cm

Study for Inchaholme Veterans 2007 oil on canvas 30 x 23cm

Mountain Lust 2014 oil on canvas 17 x 18cm

Searching for the Right City 2011 oil on canvas 31 x 31cm

Fig Shoots at Pont Trois 2010 oil on canvas 22 x 27cm

Oils on paperIsaacs Path 2010 oil on paper 31 x 41cm

Gorse Ring 2006 oil on paper 37 x 54cm

Grand Union 2006 oil on paper 38 x 56cm

Femme Eche 2008 oil on paper 66 x 41cm p.18

Acrylics on canvas / panelWistful Track 2013 acrylic on canvas 60 x 75cm p.11

Raising of the Cross 2005 acrylic on canvas 87 x 97cm p.31

The Perfect Tax Haven 2011 acrylic on canvas 50 x 40cm

6pm at Millennium Bridge 2012 acrylic on canvas 46 x 55cm p.23

Illuminated Birdsplat 2014 acrylic on canvas 33 x 41cm

Stars-seeker of Angoulême 2013 acrylic on canvas 30 x 40cm

Me, a Dragonfly and a Certain Bridge 2013 acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm

Spectacle for a Diving Mob, Cassis 2013 acrylic on panel 15 x 15cm p.6

Where Art Thou Rock of Augustus 2013 acrylic on panel 14 x 22cm

A Turn of Geology 2013 acrylic and watercolour on panel 11 x 15cm

Storm in the City 2009 acrylic on panel 16 x 25cm

Other works on panelFactory of Ideas 2011 gouache on panel 79 x 110cm

End of the Conversation 2013 ink on panel 20 x 20cm p.26

Lone Ranger of Les Beaux 2013 watercolour on panel 14 x 22cm p.20

Drawings / watercolours on paperAnticipation at the Arch 2012 pencil and watercolour on paper 14.8 x 21cm p.32

The Old Town in Pink 2008 watercolour on paper 42 x 29cm

The Remote Letter 2012 ink on paper 25 x 25cm p.28

Final View at No. 5 2012 watercolour and ink on paper 25 x 25cm p.34

Infinite Gossip 2012 ink on paper 14.8 x 21 cm

Pink Haze 2012 watercolour and ink on paper 14.8 x 21cm p.12

La Défense 2009 watercolour on paper 14 x 8cm p.30

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