Collection: Catrin Williams

Dechreuodd Catrin Williams arddangos ei gweithiau celf ar ddiwedd yr 1980au ac ers hynny mae ei gwaith wedi teithio ar draws y byd. Fe'i magwyd ar fferm fynydd yng Nghefnddwysarn ger Y Bala, ond mae wedi byw wrth ymyl y môr ym Mhwllheli ers 1996. Cymreictod - neu yn hytrach y profiad o fyw yn Nghymru - yw un o'r themau cryfaf yng ngwaith Catrin Williams; mae'r ddresel, y dillad, wynebau ac arferion y teulu i gyd yn aml wedi gweu drwy'i gilydd ac yn mynnu sylw. Dros amser datblygodd y themau cartrefol a theuluol i gynnwys elfennau o'r symbolau twristaidd o Gymru fel y llieiniau golchi llestri ystrydebol. Mae atsain o'i thirluniau cynnar o fynyddoedd y Berwyn yn amlwg yn ei darnau diweddaraf, ond arfordir a thraethau penrhyn Llŷn yw'r ysbrydoliaeth bellach.

Ers blynyddoedd mae galw mawr wedi bod am ei gwaith gan gasglwyr preifat. Fe’i gwelir mewn casgliadau preifat ym mhob rhan o Ynysoedd Prydain, Ffrainc, Yr Almaen, Hwngari, Siapan, Canada, America a Tseina, ac yng nghasgliadau cyhoeddus Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Amgueddfa Gymreig o Gelfyddyd Fodern Y Tabernacl, Cyngor Sir Gwynedd, Oriel Ceredigion Aberystwyth ac Oriel Casnewydd Gwent.

“Dwi’n angerddol am y celfyddydau o bob math ac mae wedi bod yn bleser mawr i mi gael tynnu nifer o artistiaid mor wahanol at eu gilydd a’u mentora er mwyn creu arddangosfa llawn amrywiaeth ym Mhlas Glyn-y-Weddw. Er mwyn i unrhyw artist ddatblygu mae angen cefnogaeth i’w wthio ymhellach, a’i hybu i ddal ati i greu. Un o’r rhesymau pwysig dros sefydlu BÔN yw bod yr unigolion yn gallu cefnogi a hyrwyddo ei gilydd – mae orielau’n cefnogi trwy gynnig gofod i arddangos, a gall pawb sy’n ymweld â’r sioe hon ddangos eu gwerthfawrogiad trwy ymgysylltu â’r gwaith sy’n cael ei arddangos.” - Catrin Williams

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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.

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.