“I'm passionate about all kinds of art and it's been a great pleasure for me to be able to bring a number of different artists together, and to mentor them in order to create an exhibition full of variety at Plas Glyn-y-Weddw. In order for any artist to develop, they need support to push them further, and encourage them to keep creating. One of the important reasons for establishing BÔN is that the individuals can support and promote each other – galleries support by offering a space to exhibit, and everyone who visits this show can show their appreciation by engaging with the work on display.” - Catrin Williams
Catrin Williams has exhibited her art widely since the late 1980s. Brought up on a hill-farm near Bala, she has lived near the sea at Pwllheli since 1996. Welshness - or rather the experience of living in Wales - is an obvious theme in Catrin Williams’ work, she has embodied the Welsh dresser, clothes, faces and family customs in her work. Family and homely themes have also developed into studies of the tourist imagery of Wales such as the dreaded cliché-ridden tea-towels. Recent landscape works echo her early paintings of the Berwyn mountains but it's the coastline and the sea around the Llŷn Peninsula which are now the inspiration.
There has been a real demand for her work from many private collectors, pieces of Catrin's art are in private collections all over the British Isles, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Canada America and China - and in the public collections of National Library Wales, MOMA Wales Machynlleth, Cyngor Sir Gwynedd County Council, Oriel Ceredigion Aberystwyth and the Newport Gwent Gallery and Museum.
