Mo Vyse
Artist Statement

The Montgomeryshire landscape for me is beautiful. As a teenager I had the opportunity of learning to rock climb and I climbed for over 30 years, mainly in North Wales; clinging to a rock some 150 feet up gives you a totally different perspective of landscape!

I have four distinct areas of painting that fascinate me, these are my local environment as landscape, water, mountains and the paint itself. I even find watching paint dry exciting!

In 2002 I had the opportunity to join a friend in a series of flights over Mid Wales, including the Brecon Beacons and the Cambrian Mountains, it was exciting, exhilarating and fascinating. Again seeing the land from a totally different perspective. This led me to research Peter Lanyon, who in 1959 in Cornwall used his flying experience to influence his painting. Even the famous JMW Turner also tried to see the land from an aerial perspective, he wrote:

'Let the truth of the experience trump over rigid dictates of conventional linear perspective and to work with an understanding of nature more profound than simply what the eye perceives.

Turner even used air balloons to lift him to a change perspective...'

This exhibition is about Mid Wales from various perspectives, from high in the sky looking down on Plynlimon (Pumlumon Fawr, the highest of the five summits of the Cambrian Mountains massif) where the rivers Severn and Wye start; sitting in the Kerry Hills; looking at the trees and hedge at the bottom of my garden; various paintings of water.

I attended Oswestry College and took an Art Foundation Course in 2001, then went on to Glyndwr University in 2002-2005 for a BA Hons in Fine Art, followed by a MA Fine Art 2005-2008. Unfortunately I was unable to complete my PhD at Aberystwyth University.

In 2019 I was made a member of the Royal Academy of Art for Wales (Royal Cambrian Academy).

Mo Vyse RCA
September 2025

Hafren Gallery

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