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Mary Lloyd Jones (born 1934, Devils Bridge, Wales)〔BBC Arts (Mary Lloyd Jones ), retrieved 2 June 2014.〕 is a Welsh painter and printmaker based in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion. Her works are multilayered using devices that reflect an interest with the beginnings of language including early man made marks and the Ogham and Bardic Alphabets. Mary Lloyd Jones has exhibited across Wales, and internationally. == Work == Mary Lloyd Jones attended art school immediately on leaving school. Her ambition was always to be an artist. However she didn't begin to exhibit work publicly until 1966 when she was in her early 30s. Ceridwen Lloyd Morgan attributes this relatively late flowering to the fact that she was a Welsh woman from a rural background. As Lloyd Jones states herself, "At times I felt that I belonged to the wrong sex and was living in the wrong time and place to be a successful artist." In 1989 she gave up her job as visual arts officer for Dyfed to become a full time artist. From this point Mary Lloyd Jones' work evolved to take the form of large irregularly shaped paintings which were unstretched. Such works were associated with cloth, stitching and dye-soaking into the cloth. Later she returned to more traditional forms of painting as well as producing proclamatory banners. Lloyd Jones' work is greatly inspired by the landscape in which she grew up, a prominent feature of which is the scarred landscape associated with a legacy of lead mining. This sense of place is further augmented by her own Welsh language cultural inheritance. Ann Price-Owen has referred to her work as that of a custodian of her cultural heritage which is implicitly language based. Experiences outside of Wales have also provided key stages in her works development. An interest in early alphabets was precipitated by a visit to Ilkley Moor to view what are referred to as cup and ring marks. Incorporation of such marks into the work led to an identification with the eighteenth century Welsh bard, Scholar and antiquarian Iolo Morgannwg who fashioned his own bardic alphabet, 'Coelbren'. She counts the use of scripts such as the ancient ogham script in her work as an oblique reference to the otherness of Welshness. Iwan Bala argues that these works demand some form of contextualising revealing the artist's concerns and her position within her own culture. In the Summer of 2009 Ruthin Craft Centre showed Mary Lloyd-Jones' early textile work which led to a re-evaluation of this work by a new audience. A second show in 2013 was reviewed in the magazine Embroidery. In February 2013 Mary Lloyd Jones was awarded the first Artist Residency at the Old College, Aberystwyth University and moved into a new studio there. Some of her paintings are in the public collections of the National Library of Wales, National Museum of Wales and Cardiff University.〔(Mary Lloyd Jones paintings ), ''BBC Your Paintings''. Retrieved 30 June 2014.〕 In October 2014 she published her autobiography, 'No Mod Cons', an account of her struggles both to paint and her own attempts to organise a better world for Welsh artists.〔http://www.gwales.com/bibliographic/?isbn=9781845242282&tsid=3], ''Welsh Books Council''. Retrieved 27 December 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Lloyd Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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