Welsh artist Ceri H Pritchard opens Dyffryn Ardudwy exhibition

Dyffryn Ardudwy’s Oriel Tŷ Meirion recently opened the latest solo exhibition by Ceri H. Pritchard.

Ceri is a Welsh contemporary artist based in North Wales. He is the son of famous Welsh painters Claudia Williams and Gwilym Prichard.

Ceri’s artwork is defined by strikingly colourful and bold paintings that are psychologically charged with Surrealist and Neo-Surrealist connotations.

The artist frequently juxtaposes mundane household objects with fantastical otherworldly figures which are limitless to the imagination.

Ceri has lots of international influences and this exhibition is curated with a focus on his time living in France, Mexico and Wales from the period of 2006 to 2026.

He is intrigued by the precarious state of the environment we live in. Contemporary life is filled with uncertainty and threat, and his paintings attempt to express the delicate balance between opposing forces, such as comfort and unease, chaos and order or even sanity and insanity.

Ceri’s paintings have developed through lived experience. He explores iconography that combines decorative and representational forms. He is fascinated by the illusory, the irrational, and the absurd. His visual vocabulary probes the psychological effects of shapes, colours, and patterns. 

Ceri’s images are also a means of reconciliation with personal demons and a confrontation with a longing that is the inner core of everyone. This is a highly collectable collection and personal documentation of the artist and the time in which he lives. 

The gallery is open to the public every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10.30am to 4.30pm, and the exhibition, based on ‘That Future Thing’, continues through to 17 September.

Some of Ceri’s artworks in the exhibition include paintings called ‘Black Dog’, ‘Aterrizer’, and ‘That Future Thing’, as well as a self portrait.

More details and artwork listings are available at www.tymeirion.co.uk.