Graham Brace came along to our opening of the Natural Gallery at Rookwood and I recently had the pleasure of meeting up with him again.
I am very glad to report that we are able to advertise and print a few select geological compositions by this renowned Pembrokeshire artist.
Graham was born in Milford Haven, he qualified in graphic design at Cardiff College of Art and after a stint in advertising in the big smoke he started up a graphic design and advertising consultancy in Haverfordwest which he ran successfully for 20 years.
At the same time, Graham linked up with a growing community of distinguished artists who were making their home in Pembrokeshire drawn to the inspiring landscapes and ‘wonderful light’: John Knapp-Fisher, John Rogers, Peter Daniels, Alun Davies to name a few. There are many more artists living and working in Pembrokeshire now and we are fortunate to show some of their work through this collaborative site. I am very glad to be able to welcome Graham and his art.
From 1999, Graham was able to dedicate himself to full time art and has been highly productive, notably providing the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority with extensive illustrations for their information publications and boards. He lives in Llangwm and his themes are nature-based with a clear inspiration drawn from the local geological features and observations of pebble and storm beaches.
His compositions celebrate the wonderful colours and forms that he sees here. They contain abstraction but are created in a very realistic way using coloured pencils. This is quite astonishing at first glance, some say they look like photographs, I think they look like paintings.
Graham is a founder member of the UK Coloured Pencil Society. He is widely renowned for his command of this medium and his work has been published in several art magazines including ‘Artist and Illustrator’, ‘Pratique Des Arts’ (France) and ‘Color Magazine’ (USA). But he adds to this medium with soft pastels, gouache, markers and pens. So his works are best described as mixed-media drawings.
We have ten of Graham’s artworks available for purchase on his page as high quality limited edition (100) prints. The artworks were scanned and images supplied by Marcus Bunce of New Leaf Glicee.
If you are still looking for something nice to give someone this Christmas we can highly recommend one of Graham’s prints and these can be supplied within the UK ahead of Christmas as long as orders are received by 14 December (this Sunday). We are closing for the holiday from then until early in the New Year. Happy holidays all!
