Collection: Clive Burnell

Ganwyd Clive Burnell ym Mhencoed, De Cymru yn 1950. Gadawodd yr ysgol yn bymtheg oed i weithio mewn diwydiant trwm cyn ymuno gyda Heddlu Morgannwg. Yn 1973 symudodd i ddwyrain Dyfnaint lle mae’n dal i fyw. Gweithiodd fel heddwas am 31 o flynyddoedd, gan ymddeol yn Rhagfyr 2000. Yn  ystod ei yrfa hir treuliodd lawer o’i  amser rhydd yn peintio ac yn astudio celf.

 Yn 2003, yn dilyn adolygiadau ffafriol a chynnydd yn y galw am ei waith, penderfynodd gymryd y cam dewr o fod yn artist llawn amser. Ers hynny mae wedi arddangos mewn nifer o orielau ar draws Cymru a Lloegr. Yn 2004 enillodd ail wobr yng nghystadleuaeth ‘Hud a Lledrith Llŷn’ cyn mynd a’r brif wobr yn yr un gystadleuaeth yn 2006. Yr un flwyddyn dyfarnwyd iddo wobr oriel Philip Malone yn arddangosfa haf academi'r De-orllewin. Mae wedi bod yn arddangoswr mynych yn Sefydliad Brenhinol y Peintwyr Olew, Llundain lle yn 2015 dyfarnwyd iddo wobr goffa Menna Joy Shwabe am beintiwr olew rhagorol.

 Mae Clive yn gweithio’n bennaf mewn Acrylig gan ddefnyddio olew ar brydiau. Bydd hefyd yn cyfuno'r ddau gyfrwng. Mae ei beintiadau yn cynnwys elfennau haniaethol gan alw ar ddelweddau o’r cof o dirluniau anghysbell Cymru a de-orllewin Lloegr. Wrth ddefnyddio amrywiaeth o gyfryngau mae’n adeiladu'r darlun dros gyfnod o wythnosau, misoedd neu weithiau blynyddoedd.

Bydd arddangosfa newydd Clive, 'Tirluniau mewn Cof' i'w gweld ym Mhlas Glyn-y-Weddw o Fawrth 22ain tan Mai 6ed, 2026. Mae'r teitl yn mynegi'r ffaith bod llawer o waith Clive Burnell yn deillio o'i atgofion a phrofiadau o dirluniau Cymru, gorllewin Lloegr a thu hwnt.

Mae'r rhan fwyaf o'r paentiadau wedi esblygu a datblygu wrth eu creu. Mae rhai a thuedd tuag at yr haniaethol. Mae eraill yn ganlyniad dull mwy traddodiadol o ymdrin â'r pwnc ond bwriedir i bob un ohonynt ysgogi ymdeimlad o amser a chariad at y dirwedd i'r gwyliwr.

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Clive Burnell was born in Pencoed, South Wales in 1950. He left school at 15 years of age and worked in heavy industry for a while before joining his local police force, the Glamorgan Constabulary. In 1973 he moved to East Devon where he still resides with his wife Jan and after serving 31 years as a police officer Clive retired in December 2000.

Throughout his police career he devoted much of his spare time to painting and studying art. In 2003, as a result of favourable reviews and increased demand for his work, he became a full time artist. He has since exhibited his work at galleries throughout Wales and the West Country. In 2004 he won the runner-up prize in the ‘Spirit of Llŷn’ art competition before taking the main prize in the same competition in 2006. The same year he was awarded the Philip Malone gallery prize at the South West academy summer exhibition.  He has been a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, London where in 2015 he was awarded the Menna Joy Shwabe memorial award for outstanding Oil painter 

 Clive Burnell works principally in acrylic but occasionally uses oil, combining both mediums. His paintings, many of which contain abstract elements, are designed to evoke images and memories of remote landscapes, both in Wales and the West Country. Using a variety of techniques he builds a painting over a period of weeks, months and sometimes years.

Clive's new exhibition 'Landscapes in Mind' will be at Plas Glyn-y-Weddw from March 22nd until May 6th, 2026. It's a title chosen to illustrate the fact that much of Clive Burnell's work arises from recall of experiences in landscapes in Wales, the west country and further afield.

The majority of paintings have evolved and developed during their making. Some tend towards abstraction. Others are the result of a more traditional approach to the subject but all are intended to invoke in the viewer a sense of time and place and a love of the landscape.