Dewi Tudur was born in Mold, Flintshire in 1957 and trained at Aberystwyth School of Art and Carmarthen College of Art. In 2009 he retired from teaching to concentrate on painting full-time. Over 20 years he has built up a very loyal group of collectors both in Wales and abroad.
In this tender, controlled and delicate work, Dewi shows us a world which is beautiful even when it is harsh, or mundane, or neglected. The simplicity and purity of the work gives it an almost devotional intensity. Like a prayer. Everything else is pushed aside, out of mind, so that when the moment comes he is prepared and ready to catch the birds as they rise and take flight as one, spooked by a car cresting the hill or a dog scuttling by. Having recently returned to Wales after over a decade living and working in Tuscany, most of his work has either Welsh or Italian subjects.
He can wait in the cold of an unusually hard Italian winter until the snow is perfectly deep and smooth and the lights inside have come on. His incomplete landscapes are like fragments of memory or the remnants of dreams, full of longing and a potent sense of place.
We get a strong sense of how grateful he is to be bearing witness to all this beauty. Beauty made more intense by its fleetingness; more precious by its fragility.
"I am inspired by timeless landscapes, for example a dusty road between isolated poplar trees with a solitary cottage perhaps occupying the distant hills. It is as if the impediments of a windowpane have suddenly been erased and natural daylight floods through. Scenes I have witnessed, especially in Pembrokeshire and abroad, have strongly influenced me."
Dewi Tudur
Dewi has been exhibiting regularly with us since 2011, including a major show and book launch in 2018. He launched his 2019 show alongside his book affectionately entitled 'Guto a'r Gwas Glas / Dewey and the Dragonfly'.
Dewi's most recent show was in October 2024. He returns again in April 2026.