Continuing BayArt’s remit to promote young and emerging artists, this exhibition involves three artists all based in Cardiff who have graduated over the last five years.

Their respective practices engage with painting and paintings history through a multiplicity of media including film, photography, digital media as well as the direct act of painting with a brush. Often surprising the viewer with formal invention, this exhibition demonstrates the growing confidence of young artists choosing to remain in the Capital City.

Tim Freeman writes "working within the tradition of landscape, I have developed a practice of digital collage and printmaking which calls on the Romantic and neo-Romantic genres as a context. I see landscape art as a creative process of investigation toward an understanding of that which surrounds us.
The works themselves begin with walks, most recently in the hills surrounding Maesteg and along the Taff Trail close to my home in Cardiff.
I document this time with photographs while trying not to isolate any particular scene or landmark. I’m more interested in collecting a series of images that attempt to capture the emotive nature of the walk. This gives me a sketchbook of images from which to work; open landscapes, shifting cloud patterns, tree formations, light on water etc. Back in the studio images from many different walks are overlayed, layer upon layer until a new landscape presents itself. A fictional place is created by many other varied and older ones, so the images are constantly in a state of becoming something or somewhere else.
In recent works I have placed objects in the landscape as symbol of Human presence, past, present and future".


Liam O’ Connor writes " I make figurative paintings with a concentration on the portrait.

The starting point for my work is primarily film. The films are made with minimal amount of intrusion and staging, although there is a degree of acting by the sitter when creating the source material. My paintings are then based on images taken from these films.

The discussion between new media and its effect on paintings is something I wish to investigate further, while the ability of paint as a medium to deal with this is crucial in holding my practice together".