After completing a BA in Fine Art at the School of Art, Aberystwyth, Barbara Matthews, who died in 2018, developed her art practice through painting, printmaking, photography, installation and shallow space sculpture using a variety of materials. Living and working in the mountainous area of north Ceredigion, with its almost forgotten industrial past leaving its mark on the landscape in a myriad of subtle and not so subtle ways, she explored the effects of past and future industry on the landscape of Wales and the ways it related to attitudes which shape current thought and action in the wider industrial and environmental picture. She exhibited widely throughout Wales and the rest of Britain and her work is held in a number of private collections.
Blogposts:
- https://curioustravellers.ac.uk/en/hidden-places-and-a-rumour-of-blue-ochre/
- http://www.barbaralmatthews.co.uk/dinas-mawddwy-to-mallwyd.html
- http://www.barbaralmatthews.co.uk/tal-y-llyn.html
Barbara Matthews – A Quilt for a Copper Lady (2016), paper, pigment from Parys Mountain and copper
Barbara Matthews – Dinas Mawddwy to Mallwyd (2016), wall installation
Barbara Matthews – DInas Mawddwy (detail)