School of Art

Contact Details

School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

John Elwyn

Born: 1916, UK, Wales, Cardiganshire, Adpar   Died: 1997, Southampton

Painter and printmaker. Son of a weaver and amateur poet. Studied at Carmarthen School of Art, 1935-37, West of England College of Art, Bristol, 1937-38, and the Royal College of Art, 1938-40 and 1946-47. As a Conscientious Objector he undertook land work during the Second World War. After graduating he worked as a graphic designer before teaching at Portsmouth College of Art, 1948-53, and Winchester School of Art, 1953-76. He won the Gold Medal at the 1956 National Eisteddfod and designed theatre sets for 'Antigone' at the 1958 Eisteddfod. As an illustrator he produced work for the 'RadioTimes' and the 'Shell County Guides'. He painted scenes of Welsh chapel life and landscapes, the latter influenced by Neo-Romanticism and, during the 1960s, by abstraction

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

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A Cardiganshire Farm OP35 Oil Paintings

Farm Entrance OP164 Oil Paintings

Off the Main Road II OP34 Oil Paintings

Vase of Summer Flowers OP165 Oil Paintings

Caernarvon Castle PR1951 Prints

Harlech Castle PR1950 Prints

Savernake Encounter PR791 Prints

The Canal PR1958 Prints

at RCA - DW Reed WD713 WaterColourOrDrawings

Clasped Hands, Royal College WD1333 WaterColourOrDrawings

Clasped Hands, Royal College WD1333 WaterColourOrDrawings

Dennis Reed in our Earl's Court Digs WD712 WaterColourOrDrawings

Dewi S. Davies WD707 WaterColourOrDrawings

E. M. Bush, Llanishen House, Cardiff WD1335 WaterColourOrDrawings

[Five studies of a standing male nude] WD723 WaterColourOrDrawings

[Five studies of a young woman] WD760 WaterColourOrDrawings

[Four studies of a female nude] WD727 WaterColourOrDrawings

[Four studies of a female nude] WD771 WaterColourOrDrawings

[Four studies of a seated female figure] WD766 WaterColourOrDrawings

[Four studies of a standing female nude] WD709 WaterColourOrDrawings

[Four studies of a standing male nude] WD722 WaterColourOrDrawings

[Four studies of a standing young woman] WD773 WaterColourOrDrawings

[Four studies of a woman\'s head] WD762 WaterColourOrDrawings

[Four studies of heads] WD794 WaterColourOrDrawings

[Four studies of standing nudes] WD708 WaterColourOrDrawings

Girl with Beret, Carmarthen WD1331 WaterColourOrDrawings

Girl with Pillbox Hat, Carmarthen WD1332 WaterColourOrDrawings

Girl’s Head, Carmarthen WD1328 WaterColourOrDrawings

Harold Cliffe WD735 WaterColourOrDrawings

Head of Dennis Reed WD715 WaterColourOrDrawings

Leslie Norris WD809 WaterColourOrDrawings

Leslie Norris' hands WD808 WaterColourOrDrawings

Life Class, North Walls, Winchester WD1327 WaterColourOrDrawings

[Portrait of a middle-aged man] WD701 WaterColourOrDrawings

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