Biography

I was fortunate to have grown up in an environment that enabled me to persue my creative explorations from writing on the newly painted walls with Crayola like most three year olds to tipping a pot of white paint down the stairs when I was five.

During my mid-teens my father, a potter and sculptor – see my links, encouraged me to finish my sketchbook drawings as larger works using oil paint on panels. I was already aware of Josef Herman’s work from our trips to Swansea to see family which often resulted in a visit to The Glynn Vivian. His painting  Miners, 1951 made a mighty impact upon me. I loved its immense scale and it gave me an inclination of the possibilties of paint. Later when I was 16 I visited a spellbinding exhibition of David Hockney life drawings and felt right at home. That afternoon I spent the afternoon in the Rothko room when it was located in the Tate (now Tate Britain) and realised it wasn’t just music that had something to offer me.

I have been exhibiting my work since 1997 being involved in group shows and solo shows – My father and I show our work alongside our jewellery at 1 Old Stone Bridge in Bridgend. My work has also been featured in television shows for S4C, The Pop Factory and galleries such as The Washington Gallery.

The foreseeable future in the studio will be given to developing a series of works involving themes of local folklore, regeneration and the moral apocalypse all set within the location of a now-not-so-small welsh town, the landmarks, the brethren, y cwrw, the mountains, the hills and the weekends of chaos and abandon. I’m also persuing the sunlight. I may even paint.

Feel free to contact me.

Iolo

Contact:
07966 780 561

ioloedger[at]gmail.com

 

 

“Thousands of years of art history
and the safe money
is still on a picture of a naked girl.”

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