By: SELWAY, John (1938-2017)

Acq. Number: 833

Dimensions: 112 x 75 cm

Artwork_Medium: watercolour on paper

Purchased: 2014

Buyer: HARDING, Robert

Location: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery

Notes: John Selway was born to Welsh parents in the south Yorkshire colliery town of Askern, near Doncaster, and lived and worked in Abertillery after the family returned home to Wales in 1940.John was part of a golden generation at the Royal College of Art that included several fledgling Pop Art luminaries. He was integral to Welsh Art for half a century and an influential tutor at both Newport and Carmarthen Art Colleges. Whether flirting with abstraction, drawing inspiration from literature or responding to a landscape, his primary concern was always the human condition. St Michaels Church in Abertillery has several particularly fine examples of his work.