WALES CONTEMPORARY / CYMRU GYFOES

Janette Kerr

Artist

Janette is an Hon Royal Scottish Academician, Past President of the Royal West of England Academy of Art, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Visiting Research Fellow, Fine Art, UWE Bristol. She has a long-standing history of showing work, exhibiting regularly across the UK and abroad; her work is held in national and international collections and she has worked on residencies in Svalbard, Shetland, Norway, Somerset, Wales, and Ireland.

Ken Maycock

Painter

Ken studied as an undergraduate and post-graduate at the Slade School of Fine Art where he was awarded the Thomas Monnington Prize for Painting and the Boise Travelling Scholarship. Ken has exhibited widely and has work in private collections in Britain and the United States. He taught Art and the History of Art at Dulwich College for many years, but has now given up his teaching post to work full-time as a painter. True to his Slade roots, Ken prefers to work from direct observation and he is often to be found outside, painting the landscape near his home in North Pembrokeshire. Drawing lies at the heart of all that Ken does and he aims to get the drawing right without sacrificing spontaneity.

Catrin Webster

Artist

Catrin was born in Cardiff in 1966. She has lived and painted in Rome, Reykjavik, Cardiff, London and Mid Wales and has recently moved to Swansea after her appointment to teach fulltime at Swansea College of Art, UWTSD Swansea, where she is programme director for the BA Fine Art, MA Contemporary Dialogues and Research Degrees, 2015. Webster studied Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and gained a Phd from the University of Wales in 2010.

Stan holds an MSc in Corporate Leadership from Edinburgh Napier University, a Post Graduate Diploma in Corporate Governance and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business & Executive Coaching, both from University College Dublin. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to Economic Development in Northern Ireland. He is also Chairman of the Haven Waterway Enterprise Zone, a member of the Stakeholder and Accountability Committee, a sub-committee of the board of Milford Haven Port Authority and a Governor of Pembrokeshire College.