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"All these works, collages of handmade paper, oil paint and gold leaf on wood are inspired by the remains of ancient artefacts. The surface textures suggest evidence of erosion, marks on a long journey and of mysterious history."
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"Blue Still Life" by Glenys Cour. Collage, handmade paper and oil paint .
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Glenys Cour
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been fasinated with the stories of the Mabinogion since her student days' and has used the imagery over and over again in various media and with different treatments.
The work exhibited here is derived from the mystifying remains and artefacts of ancient cultures.
"My obsession has been with gold - the material that does not corrode but remains when great civilisations have disappeared. The thin beaten
gold of Greek diadems, the intricate convolutions of Celtic gold and the subsequent Russian and Greek icons - these have been the inspiration of my work for the last fifteen years.
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In my art I generally employ collage, making my own paper in order to enrich the texture of the surfaces. I then stain this paper with oil paint and gold pigment and finally apply traces of gold leaf.
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ln addition to this main body of work, I have also been involved in design for festival posters(I was even awarded the first prize for the best poster by the British Arts Festivals Association in 1989) and book covers as well as stained glass (I was artist-in-residence during the 1992 Painter in Glass exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea) and theatre design."
Glenys Cour
(text from "Revelations" - Processes of Making Art - The Welsh Group Exhibition 2000-01).
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"Red Still Life" by Glenys Cour. Collage, handmade paper and oil paint .
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"Red Still Life" by Glenys Cour. Collage, handmade paper and oil paint.
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Glenys Cour has exhibited extensively over the years and a full C.V. is available from the artist upon request.
Glenys Cour trained at Cardiff College of Art where she was taught by Ceri Richards. Her marriage to a sculptor, Ronald Cour who, sadly, died in 1978, meant that her environment was always one of lively exchange of artistic ideas and of joint exploration of the International Art Scene.
(Extract
Betty Rees
from "Glenys Cour" - Paintings & Collages Exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Gallery Gallery 1986).
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GLENYS COUR
