Clyde Holmes
ARTIST: Clyde Holmes (1940-2008)
TITLE: “Grey Scree Light Snowdonia Wales”
SIGNED: initialled lower right
MEDIUM: oil on board
SIZE: 126cm x 67cm inc frame
CONDITION: excellent
PRICE: £sold
NOTES: Born in London, trained at Hornsey College of Art, 1961-4, then St Martin’s School of Art. 1964-5. Holmes moved with his family to a remote shepherd’s cottage in Snowdonia National Park in 1970 to live “in what most people would consider abject poverty”. No telephone or electricity, no running water or gas, and the cottage was two miles from the nearest road. The wild wet landscape became Holmes’ subject. Featured in BBC2’s Visions of Snowdonia (1997) represented at the V&A Museum & National National Museum of Wales.
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