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:

Eurgain Evans

Born: 1936, UK, Wales, Betws-y-coed

Painter. Daughter of the landscape artist and craftsman Tom Evans, known as 'Tom Wern'. Eurgain studied at Wrexham Art School before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools entering as a probationer in 1959 and graduating with a Postgraduate Diploma in 1962. During this period she painted landscapes of her home area around Betws-y-Coed and Capel Garmon in Snowdonia and exhibited at least one of these works at the 1960 National Eisteddfod at Cardiff. She also submitted a painting of Capel Garmon for her final examinations at the Royal Academy. She then went into teaching and later became a lecturer in Teacher Training at Swansea School of Art. She now lives in South Wales. She is related, by marriage, to Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Cefn Rhydd OP37 Oil Paintings




 
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