Valerie Land
In her mid-forties Valerie decided to escape from her school-teaching career and combine her first loves; walking and painting. The mountains and seashores of Wales beckoned her away from the flat landscape of East Anglia and her youth. Exploring light, texture and colour, Valerie's detailed painting style is a restful homage to a beautiful country.
Solo Exhibitions
‘Enduring Light’, Toko, Aberystwyth, 2005
‘Evening Shorelines’, Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Llanbedrog, 2005
‘Evening Shorelines’, Llwyngwril Gallery, Llwyngwril, 2006
'Last Light', Oriel Cambria Gallery @ Rhiannon, Tregaron, 2007.
'Last Light', Silver Moon Gallery, Porthmadog, 2007
Art Matters, Tenby, March 2008.
‘Square Visions’ - a collaboration with Sonja Benskin Mesher toured Wales 2003-2004
Selected Exhibitions
Royal Cambrian Academy Open Exhibition, Conwy, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006
Welsh Artist of the Year Exhibition 2002, 2008, St. David’s Hall, Cardiff
Welsh Landscape Exhibition, Emrys Gallery, Haverfordwest, 2002.
MOMA, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth, Summer Exhibition, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007
Wrexham Open, 2002, 2004
Bangor Open, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007
Visions of Eden, Chapel of Art, Criccieth, 2003
Welsh Landscape, Theatr Clwyd, Mold, 2003
The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, 2003
The Welsh Contemporary Art Fair 2004, 2005, Snowdon Mill, Porthmadog
Oriel Davies Open 2004, Newtown
‘Modern Art Wales’, MOMA,Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth, 2005
‘Birds of a Feather’, Snowdon Mill, Porthmadog, 2005
‘Birds of a Feather’, Gibberd Room, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, 2005
‘Sea Britain’, Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Llanbedrog, 2005
FOCAL, Ruthin Festival of Contemporary Art and Light, 2005
‘Winter Colour’, The Wonderwall Gallery, Cirencester, 2006
‘The Spirit of the Llyn’ , Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, 2006
Celf Cambria Arts Summer Exhibition, 2007
Valerie tutors day schools, usually for art clubs and societies by invitation.
Her most popular course explores gouache, a medium for which she is very enthusiastic.
Welsh Landscape Competition, Mold, 2003
Watercolour, Drawing, Mixed Media, Gouache
Landscape, Buildings, Flowers And Gardens, Seascapes and Water, Skies, Still Life, Townscapes, Illustration
Gwynedd, United Kingdom mainland