Pursued by a Bear: The Art of William McClure Brown

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Cyfrol yn adrodd profiadau bywyd William McClure Brown, sy'n symud o gartref eirth polar pegwn y gogledd i fforwyr yr Arctig, chwedloniaeth bleidd-ddynion, direidi'r Fari Lwyd, ac awyrennau milwrol yn awyr yr anialwch. Dyma gyfrol sy'n dathlu crefft y cyfarwydd a grym yr annisgwyl mewn delweddaeth fyw.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Polar bears and Arctic explorers, the lore of the loup-garou, the mischief of the Mari Lwyd, fighter-jets in desert skies: William McClure Brown's mind travelled many paths to celebrate story-making and the power of the unexpected in vivid imagery.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Peter Wakelin has published books on the artists Charles Burton, Roger Cecil, Falcon Hildred, George Little and Sally Moore and has been a contributor to Art Review , Modern Painters and the Guardian . His exhibitions include Hill-rhythms: David Jones + Capel-y-ffin at y Gaer in Brecon, Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art at the Royal West of England Academy and Romanticism in the Welsh Landscape at MoMA Machynlleth. He is a former Director of Collections at the National Museum of Wales and President of the Contemporary Art Society for Wales.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Polar bears and Arctic explorers, the lore of the loup-garou, the mischief of the Mari Lwyd, fighter-jets in desert skies: William McClure Brown’s mind travelled many paths to celebrate story-making and the power of the unexpected in vivid imagery. Born to Scottish parents in Canada in 1953, as a teenager he knew painters in the Toronto scene and began to evolve his own creative language. From 1977 he was based in London and south-west England before settling in Wales in 1990. While he exhibited internationally he was admired most in his close community of fellow artists. He found inspiration in Devon, northern France, Galicia, North Africa, the South Wales valleys and the Inuit communities of Hudson Bay. He collaborated with painters and poets, learned Welsh, made public art, held residencies in schools, and created images for Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci. William Brown died in 2008, age 54. This is the first book to explore the full range of his startling, audacious work. "A defining trait of human nature is, I believe, the imagination – at once the alleviation of tedium, the bringing of a sense of fun and maybe, just maybe, illumination." William Brown