William Selwyn
William Selwyn was born in Caernarfon in 1933. In 1954, after spending two years of National Service with the Royal Artillery, he studied at Y Coleg Normal, Bangor until 1956. After that he was a teacher at Ysgol Maesincla and Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen, Caernarfon until his retirement in 1990.
My Art
The center of his artwork is the landscape of Gwynedd - its farm workers and fishermen. He is a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy, and winner of the 11th Singer and Freiedlander / Sunday Times Exhibition in 1988 for his watercolour of Bwlch Llanberis, and also Welsh Artist of the Year 2001. Winner of Hyd a Lledrith Llyn 2003.
Gwynedd Council and Ynys Mon Council, together with the University of Wales Bangor, the Arts Council, the University of Bath, and the National Library of Wales all own his pictures - and so indeed he features in a number of private collections in Wales and abroad.
He has exhibited widely - at the Royal Cambrian Academy, the National Eisteddfod of Wales, the Royal Academy of the West of England, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Tegfryn Gallery in Menau Bridge, the Albany Gallery in Cardiff, the Tibb Lane Gallery in Manchester, Plas Glyn y Weddw Gallery in Llanbedrog, the John Davies Gallery in Stow-on-the-Wold, Y Mynydd Gwefru in Llanberis, the Arfon Gallery in Caernarfon and the Thackery Gallery, London.
