Gareth Thomas - Biography

Gareth Thomas Artist Painter Watercolour Landscape South West Wales Fountain Fine Art Llandeilo Swansea Cardiff

1955 Born in Swansea

1983 Elected member of the Watercolour Society of Wales

1984 Elected committee member Watercolour Society of Wales

collections

public collections

Royal Engineers, Sennybridge

Trinity College, Carmarthen

Dyfed County Council

Lloyds Bank plc

London Borough of Hackney

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

House of Lords London

Works in private collections in USA, France, Finland, Australia, South Africa, Canada, Germany and the Middle East, also in private collections throughout the UK.

exhibitions & group shows

1982 Hackney Exhibition, London

1982 / 83 Royal Society of Marine Artists, London

1983 / 88 Summer Exhibition, Royal Cambrian Academy

1984 United Society of Artists, London

1985 – 88 Bohun Gallery, Henley-onThames

1985 – 03 Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Pwllheli

1986 – 93 Ceri Richards Gallery, Swansea

1987 – 90 Thackery Gallery, London

1988 Edwin Pollard Gallery, London

1993 Carousel Gallery, Chipping Sodbury

one man & joint exhibitions

1981 Joint show with Richard Criddle, Carmarthen Museum

1981 / 82 One man show, Grand Theatre, Swansea

1983 / 86 One man show, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

1984 / 88 One man show, Henry Thomas Gallery, Swansea

1983 / 93 One man show, Hilltop Studio, Llantrisant

1987 Joint Show with Sir Hugh Casson, Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames

1988 One man show, Ceri Richards Gallery, Swansea

1991 - 03 One man show, Attic Gallery, Swansea

1993 Joint Show with Neil Murison, Albany Gallery, Cardiff

1995 – 06 One man show, Albany Gallery, Cardiff

2007 Joint show with Mike Jones, Fountain Fine Art, Llandeilo

currently

Gareth Thomas shows his work at his own Gallery, The Crane Gallery Mumbles at 21 Newton Road, Mumbles, Swansea. Up to this he has shown in a one man exhibition alternately in the Albany Gallery, Cardiff and the Attic Gallery, Swansea. His work is also on show at the Hicks Gallery in London and Fountain Fine Art, Llandeilo