Keith Bayliss
	"Bayliss is drawn to the mystical conversations in odd settings of early Renaissance Annunciations. There are intimate silences between the figures in his work, but the paintings in particular suggest wordless dialogues, with figures present or obliqely symbolised." Peter Wakelin

Untitled oil on canvas 183 x 152cm

Personal Details:

Keith Bayliss was born in Swansea in 1954 and educated at Swansea College of Art in 1973. He also studied at Sheffield City Polytechnic (faculty of Art & Design), graduating in 1977 with a
B.A. (Hons) Fine Art.

Selected Exhibitions
Since 1995

1995 - 6: Intimate Portraits , Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Mostyn Art Gallery - Featuring Contemporary artists in Wales, as exhibitor & co-ordinator.

1996 - 7: Boxes, Touring Group Show of box art.

1996: Voyages : works on paper ; Keith bayliss, William Brown & Malcolm Parr. Narodni Kulturni Pamatka Vysehrad, Prague, Czech Republic.

1998: La Bise Touring Group Show.

1998 - 9: FAUST Touring Group Show, Germany.

1999: Dreaming Awake , Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre.

2001: Five Artists from Wales , Brugge, Belgium.

2001 - 2: Dreaming Awake exhibition tour of the Czech Republic Group show; Keith Bayliss, William Brown, Tony Goble, Iwan Bala, Roger Moss, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Jaroslav Mykisa and photographer Bernard Mitchell.

"Swsana" oil on canvas 152 x 183cm

Publications:

Keith Baylisshas written articles for Scolastic Publications, Art & Craft Magazine on numerous projects and workshops in Primary education.

He has written for BARN Welsh language cultural magazine on, among others, Josef Herman , Fred Janes, John Piper and the Dreaming Awake exhibition.

Keith Bayliss has produced and published Me, Myself, I and Image and Word, school and community project publications.

Serious Games , published by Swansea Poetry Workshop.

White Voices , published by Old Stile Press, Tintern.

Selected Involvements:

Developed the Community Art Service for the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

Has devised numerous school and community projects, festivals (including the Ceri Richards Festival) and workshop programmes, working with all areas of education, the elderly, special needs and those with disability.

Has developed and co-ordinated numerous exhibitions, including:
The Festival of Czech & Slovak Surrealists , 1998, Swansea.
Poem in October - Two Belgian Artists and a Writer, Swansea 1995 (part of the U.K. Festival of Literature.
Intimate Portraits , Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.
The Visual Word : An exhibition of Responses. Swansea Arts Workshop & Old Library, Cardiff. Part of the U.K. Festival of Literature.