Works

‘12 Heads ’
Mixed Media on Canvas

‘Long Faces’
Oil on Canvas

‘Green Landscape’
Oil on Canvas

‘Close Together II’
Oil on Canvas

‘Hiraeth Mawr No.2’
Oil on Canvas

‘Singing Man’
Mixed Media on Canvas

‘Black Bird With Script’
40x40cm

‘Horse in Welsh Landscape’
Mixed Media on Canvas

‘Frightened Horse’
Mixed Media on Canvas

‘Head’
Mixed Media on Canvas

‘Conversation’
Mixed Media on Canvas

‘Bread of Heaven I’
Mixed Media on Canvas

‘Frightened’
Acrylic on Paper

‘Man With Crow’
Acrylic on Paper

‘Frightened With Dark Background ’
Acrylic on Paper

‘Another Time’
Acrylic on Paper

‘Calling For Time ’
Acrylic on Paper

‘Farmer With Dog’
Acrylic on Paper

‘Farmer With Lamb’
Acrylic on Paper

‘Brown Man’
Mixed Media on Canvas

‘Man in Yellow Landscape’
Oil on Canvas

‘Autumn’
70x70cm

‘Taid Going for a Walk’
Oil on Canvas

‘Red Lips’
Oil on Canvas

‘I remember’
Oil on Canvas

‘Black Pig’
Oil on Canvas

‘For Long As Forever Is’
Oil on Canvas

‘Landscape Fragment’
Mixed Media on Canvas

‘Black Headlands’
Oil on Canvas

‘The Two Of Us’
Oil on Canvas

‘Face ’
Mixed media

‘Red Horse’
Mixed Media on Canvas

‘Red Queen’
Mixed Media on Paper

‘Nant Gwrtheyrn ’
Charcoal

‘Looking West ’
Charcoal

‘A Corner of Llŷn ’
Charcoal

‘Garn Boduan ’
Charcoal
About
About
Emrys Parry is an artist living and working in Great Yarmouth returning regularly to Wales to draw and make notes, which are developed further in the studio. Born in 1941 he grew up on the Llŷn Peninsula, which has a strong influence on his work. He taught for over thirty years at Great Yarmouth College of Art and Design and Norwich School of Art and Design and retired from teaching in 1997 to work full time as an artist. Emrys specialises in drawing and paintings, which explore the mystery lurking behind the outward appearance of the landscape of his childhood.
He has adopted the role of remembrancer making images, which reflect his deep interest in time, and is the history of the Welsh people.
‘I first discovered the work of Emrys Parry during a visit to the Plas Glyn y Weddw Gallery at Llanbedrog on the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales, a series of beautifully crafted expressive landscapes drawn in charcoal. To my surprise I discovered after talking to the curator that this most Welsh of artists lived and worked in Norfolk. On a Subsequent visit to his studio in Great Yarmouth it was manifest that Emrys was not only a fine draughtsman, but also one of Wales’s most gifted iconographic painters. It is perhaps is isolation in exile away from his beloved homeland that gives his narrative pictures their power. They echo the longing of a historically suppressed language, culture and community with a patriotic desire for nationhood. These are not the icons degraded by commerce like the red dragon, twisted and caricatured on travel brochures and T-shirts, Emrys has created his own language of signs drawn from our Celtic inheritance. These canvases transcend and evolve across the boundaries of Wales being equally effective in his adopted Norfolk home.’
BERNARD MITCHELL