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Y GRÅ´P CYMREIG THE WELSH GROUP
Jess Woodrow
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Artist's statement:
"It’s important to me that a painting has a frequency - a certain vibration.
A bringing together of different elements - colour, texture, form - until there is a resonance between a subconscious awareness and an external feeling of having a place in the world - and that that awareness vibrates slowly into the very distant past.
I think of this as a kind of power that sometimes others may recognise - and what’s important is the search for this kind of connection.
I have attempted to create a visual language over many years - that on the one hand is precise and visible: a language where nothing is hidden, but on the other hand is somewhere else completely. I keep looking for this resonance between the inside and the out, the point where self-identity is momentarily lost.
I imagine that I could travel around the universe so fast that I meet myself coming the other way! The envy caused by the meeting of this other ‘perfect’ being is what sends me back to the drawing board.
On a more grounded level, my work is a conversation with other art, across time and cultures." July 2025
Born: Malverns, Worcestershire, England.
Lives: Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales.
Education:
MA - Bath College of Art + Design (2008 - distinction) Fine Art (pg dip) - University of Wales (Cardiff).
BA(Hons) Fine Art - Howard Gardens, Cardiff. (1990)
Diploma in Foundation studies - Weston-super-Mare College of Art.
Selected exhibitions:
2025, ‘Out West’ - Oriel Gwyn, Aberaeron.
2025, ‘Out of the Blues’ - Studio Cennen, Llandeilo.
2025, ‘The Unexpected’ - Studio Cennen, Llandeilo.
2024, ‘Where are we now?’ - Oriel Canfas, Cardiff.
2023, Concentric Group Show - West Wharf Gallery, Cardiff.
2023, RCA Open, Conwy.
Beep painting prize 2022, Elysium, Swansea.
2022, 'Mad shadows Mute ghosts'. Curated by Jess Woodrow: Group show with Jacqueline Alkema, Rosie McLachlan, Sophie Woodrow, Flora McLachlan, Oriel Q, Narberth Pembrokeshire.
2022, 'Walking in Two Worlds', group show. Curated by Jonathan Powell, Steph Goodger, Julian Rowe. Volcano, Swansea (Elysium).
2022, 'Hibernation', group show with work created in lockdown. Curated by David Morgan Davies. Abergavenny Art Shop and Chapel gallery.
2022, Drawing. Members show. Oriel Q, Narberth.
2021, Aspects of Landscape - 3 artists. Oriel Q, Narberth. Curated by Harriet Addyman.
2021, 'Walking in Two Worlds'. Curated by Jonathan Powell, Steph Goodger and Julian Rowe. Oceans Apart Gallery, Salford and Oriel Caernarfon, Gwynedd.
2016, 'The Sound of Water', solo show. Oriel Q, Narberth, Pembrokeshire.
2015, Abergavenny art shop and Chapel gallery - summer show.
2015, '10 Artists from Bristol and London', Searchers Contemporary, Bristol.
2013, 'Objects of Desire'. Searchers Contemporary, Bristol.
2010, Open Painting - A survey of contemporary painting. RWA Bristol.
2006/8 exhibited with West Wales Art centre Fishguard.