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Sir Edward (1529–1609) and Lady Agnes (1547–1624) Stradlinge (Amgueddfa #Cymru/NMW)
April 9, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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27 Aug 1591: d. Katheryn of Berain, 'Mam #Cymru'/‘The Mother of #Wales’ at Plas-y-Ward #otd (Amgueddfa Cymru/NMW)
August 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Katheryn of Berain (1540/1541–1591), 'Mam #Cymru'/‘The Mother of Wales’

(Amgueddfa Cymru/NMW)
July 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
jacquiwine.bsky.social
Something a little different from Gwen John here. I loved these…very vivid. #GwenJohn #Art #ArtSky
Blodau mewn Fâs c. 1925 Dyfrlliw a gouache ar bapur Amgueddfa Cymru Flowers in a Vase c. 1925 Watercolour and gouache on paper Amgueddfa Cymru NMW A 15760 Blodau c. 1925 Dyfriliw a gouache ar bapur Amgueddfa Cymru Flowers c. 1925 Watercolour and gouache on paper Amgueddfa Cymru NMW A 5526 Girl Looking Down C 1930 Trees C. 1925 Watercolour on paper
June 22, 2026 at 4:49 PM
mclees-fiona.bsky.social
Ceri Richards, foot in hospital, from his ‘Hospital’ sketchbook (Amgueddfa Cymru NMW A 13703)
A pencil line drawing, from the perspective of someone lying in bed. In the foreground a hand on the left holds a sketchbook. A foot emerges from behind the sketchbook and beyond that’s whole hospital room with sinks, tiling, and the back of someone else’s head, sitting at the foot of the bed. By Ceri Richards, “Hospital Sketchbook”, collection of Amgueddfa Cymru
September 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
jacquiwine.bsky.social
Delightful day trip to Cardiff today to see the fabulous GWEN JOHN exhibition: STRANGE BEAUTIES. Such an amazing show - the biggest ever, I believe - showcasing her oils, watercolours & drawings.

I love how she uses different permutations of colour & form to create these luminous artworks! #Art
Menyw'n Eistedd c. 1920 Olew ar gynfas Cagliad preifat, try garedigwydd Christie's Woman Seated C. 1920 Oil on canvas Private Collection, Courtesy of Christie's Y Lleian c. 1915 Olew ar gynfas Tate, Prynwyd, 1940 The Nun c. 1915 Oil on canvas Tate, Purchased, 1940 Y Pererin c. 1924 Olew ar gynfas Yale Center for British Art, Cagliad Paul Mellon The Pilgrim c. 1924 Oil on canvas Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Merch yn Edrych i Lawr c. 1930 Dyfriliw a gouache ar bapur Amgueddfa Cymru Girl Looking Down c. 1930 Watercolour and gouache on paper Amgueddfa Cymru NMW A 15115
June 20, 2026 at 4:36 PM
mclees-fiona.bsky.social
Detail of a John Singer Sargent watercolour (NMW A 2610) in raking light, which reveals the rough texture of the watercolour paper. Raking light is helpful as it shows surface texture & planar distortions. I love it because it returns 3-dimensionality to paper works too often thought of as “flat”
Section of a watercolour showing a moustachioed man’s head and shoulders reclining, with swathes of red cloth beneath him and a deep green background. The paper is heavily textured with the pattern of the wool drying felts it would have been pressed between during the manufacturing process. John Singer Sargent, Figure Study, NMW A 2610. Collection of Amgueddfa Cymru.
November 12, 2024 at 5:06 PM
mclees-fiona.bsky.social
Can’t stop looking at this macro detail of an unfinished Gwen John painting - the texture of the paint, the weave visible through the chalky ground, the perfect harmony between the lilac background and graphite-grey-black hair and putty-toned skin and berried lips… (Amgueddfa Cymru NMW A 4928)
A cropped detail of a painting of a face, in three quarters profile. It is unfinished and the details have not been completed: just a few brushstroke to denote the eye and brow, nose left blank - colours pretty much as described in the text!
February 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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18 Dec 1648: Commissioners of the Great Seal meet Oliver Cromwell & Col. Richard Deane in the Rolls Chapel #otd The gathering was most likely to discuss plans to try Charles I (Amgueddfa Cymru/NMW) The meeting was facilitated by Speaker Lenthall`
December 18, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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18 Dec 1648: Commissioners of the Great Seal meet Oliver Cromwell & Col. Richard Deane in the Rolls Chapel #otd The gathering was most likely to discuss plans to try Charles I (Amgueddfa Cymru/NMW)

The meeting was facilitated by Speaker Lenthall
December 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
mclees-fiona.bsky.social
Stuck at home editing some writing on Gwen John and trying to choose images from her huge series of watercolours depicting people in church. Each time I look I find more that are new to me. I like this lady in on a scrap of paper, studying her prayer book. (Amgueddfa Cymru, NMW A 15316)
A watercolour on a scrappy piece of paper with irregular edges, showing the back of a woman seated in a wooden chair. She has a grey cloche hat and shirt dark hair peeping out, and a light green jacket with very pale blue pin stripes. She holds an open book.
September 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
mclees-fiona.bsky.social
And here’s the whole work, one of John’s figures in church series (NMW A 15363) depicting the parishioners, nuns, and orphans who attended services at the Catholic church in Meudon. Beautiful expressionistic colourways flourish in these works, like the purples and greens seen here
A watercolour of figures in church, viewed from behind. The style is graphic with figures reduced to simplified forms, painted mostly in pure fields of colour. Purples and greens dominate the forging whilst ochre and brown colour the chairs and background. Collection of Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
June 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Lovers' by Michael Andrews, 1956 (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff: NMW A(L) 1564).

Link - artuk.org/discover/art...

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Lovers | Art UK
Lovers by Michael Andrews (1928–1995), 1956, from Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
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February 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
mclees-fiona.bsky.social
Turning the page in this Ceri Richards’ sketchbook leads to a startling experience - suddenly you are thrust directly into the artist’s body, lying in a hospital bed, contemplating your own toes & the room beyond & your hand holding the blank page that then became this very drawing. (NMW A 13703)
A pencil line drawing, from the perspective of someone lying in bed. In the foreground a hand on the left holds a sketchbook. A foot emerges from behind the sketchbook and beyond that’s whole hospital room with sinks, tiling, and the back of someone else’s head, sitting at the foot of the bed. By Ceri Richards, “Hospital Sketchbook”, collection of Amgueddfa Cymru
November 16, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Bacchanal' by Frank Brangwyn, ca. 1907 (National Museum Wales, Cardiff: NMW A 150).

Link - artuk.org/discover/art...

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Bacchanal | Art UK
Bacchanal by Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956), c.1907, from Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
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June 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
doccrom.bsky.social
The Image at the head of this thread is 'Lovers' by Michael Andrews, 1956 (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff: NMW A(L) 1564).

Link - artuk.org/discover/art...

#LatinForTheDay #Tibullus 🧵🏺
Lovers | Art UK
Lovers by Michael Andrews (1928–1995), 1956, from Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
artuk.org
June 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
mclees-fiona.bsky.social
And here’s something of Gaudier-Brzeska’s at Amgueddfa Cymru: an angular yet cuddly self-contained dachshund (NMW A 305), cast in aluminium from the original marble carving & gifted by Kettle’s Yard in 1966. Here’s his twin, in typically perfect placement at that Cambridge paradise of Modernism
A statue of a dog seen in profile, in deep mottled brown metal, composed of angles and triangles and geometric lines. It is lying down but its haunches seem to lift of the floor slightly, back legs tucked below. The front legs are tucked almost out of sight. The visible eye is a simple oval indented into the surface. In spite of the angles it looks like you could scoop it up and cuddle it on your lap, like a nesting duck. A copy of the same statue but in a domestic interior, placed at the top of a short flight of worn wooden steps. A patterned stair runner is on the stairs, a wooden chair just visible in the background. The dog looks to be resting but poised for action if necessary.
December 13, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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Gwen John, muted palette? Not on paper, buddy! Raspberry and lilac and olive green with tomato red underdrawings showing through. Study of a girl, NMW A 15115, Amgueddfa Cymru https://museum.wales/collections/online/object/01020730-9f0b-3073-b5d5-503b35f43f0f/Study-of-a-girl/
November 16, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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For today’s #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg Modern British Painting, here is Ray Howard-Jones ‘Limpets in Easter Bay’, 1965 @NatMuseumArt (NMW A 9766, © the artist’s estate/Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales)
November 17, 2024 at 4:37 AM
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Lovely axolotl in a Ray Howard-Jones sketchbook (NMW A 9398, © the artist’s estate/Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales)
November 17, 2024 at 4:37 AM
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Currently assessing a very large David Jones work on paper, Mehefin (1950) - here is a tiny detail. The white paint is showing evidence of losses so it's going under the microscope for very close observation to see whether any consolidation is required. Amgueddfa Cymru NMW A 3208
November 17, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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“All the splendours of the prism and the jewel are vulgar and few compared to the subdued blending of infinite opalescence in finely-inlaid water colour…” (Ruskin)
Figures in Church, Gwen John, Amgueddfa Cymru NMW A 3811
November 17, 2024 at 12:28 AM