Introduction
Cyflwyniad
Robert A. Newell
Robert A. Newell
Royal Cambrian Academician
Aelod o’r Academi Frenhinol Gymreig
I studied Fine Art at Wimbledon School of Art and Goldsmiths College, and was awarded a University of Wales doctorate in 2005.
Astudiais y Gelfyddyd Gain yn Ysgol Gelf Wimbledon a Choleg Goldsmiths, ac yn 2005 gwobrwywyd doethuriaeth i mi gan Brifysgol Cymru.
I have taught at Hounslow Borough College, North Devon College and, since 1993, have been a senior lecturer at what was Swansea Institute of Higher Education, now Swansea Metropolitan University. My work in painting and drawing has passed through certain distinct phases in relation to places, themes and formal concerns: the North Sea coast, destroyed urban environments, and now locations in Wales and Cumbria. It has been preoccupied with the rhythmic organisation of detail and mass produced in landscapes by the interplay of physical forces over time. In relation to varying conditions of light and
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Rwyf wedi dysgu yng Ngholeg Bwrdeistref Hounslow, Coleg Gogledd Dyfnaint ac, ers 1993, bûm yn uwch ddarlithydd yn Sefydliad Addysg Uwch Abertawe, sef Prifysgol Fetropolitan Abertawe bellach. Mae fy ngwaith paentio a darlunio wedi mynd trwy gyfnodau gwahanol mewn perthynas â lleoedd, themâu a phryderon ffurfiol: arfordir Môr y Gogledd, amgylcheddau trefol sydd wedi’u dinistrio, a bellach lleoliadau yng Nghymru a Cumbria. Mae fy ngwaith yn canolbwyntio’n bennaf ar drefn rhythmig manylion a chaiff hynny ei ddarlunio’n