Rhondda RARE large Ernest Zobole (1929-99) painting Rhondda Valley Wales landscape Welsh

Description

Rhondda - Ernest Zobole, titled - Painting about a Landscape and Sea No. 2.-
Important, famous, very highly regarded Welsh artist with work in most large collections.
Mixed media on board
Image Size 69cm x 48cm
Mounted and framed.
Excellent example of Zobole's work.

Ernest Zobole (1929-1999) lived most of his life in Ystrad, Rhondda and used the location as the theme for most of his work. As one of several students who met on the train each day on their way to art college in Cardiff, they became known as the Rhondda Group. He taught in high schools for a while before lecturing at Newport Art School for over 20 years. Zobole was one of the founding members of the 56 Group of Welsh artists.

Zobole developed a very personal style of colourful, semi abstract townscapes which frequently feature the artist in his house, surrounded by the terraced rows of house of his Rhondda environment. This is a good example of that style showing the familiar outline of the artist amongst the rows of terraces, with car headlines shining on the wet roads at night.

"The imagery for the work is taken from my immediate surroundings - the house, the outside landscape, and the landscape seen through doors and windows. The outside and inside come together in places. The system used in painting parallels one we use naturally, in that when we examine any situation, we look around or turn our heads, or move our eyes, or more likely, do all three. The differing viewpoints we take in help us build some kind of picture. In making use of these differing viewpoints, plan views, side elevations, end elevations and perspectives are used; eye levels vary, scale varies and emphasis varies; there is also time and memory”.