DAN LLYWELYN HALL - ARTIST — THE CAMBRIDGE CRITIQUE

Dan Llywelyn Hall is a painter whose time has come. His fabulous eclectic style now leaps out from a field of figurative artists. A passionate pulse races through his paintings. Above the colourful Celtic romance of Guinevere and Launcelot as they lie together, the sword of chastity between their deep doomed desire. It is part of the artist’s new portfolio “Love and Death’ which opens at the Urs and Linley Espacio Gallery in Shoreditch. Erotic male figures, wondrous women from mythology combine to create the vigour and unconcealed sexual energy in his work.

It is one of the joys of The Cambridge Critique to choose art for readers, art to leap from the screen, colours confidently alive. Not life size sadly but with the kind of scale to properly dazzle you readers and have you dashing down to London Town for a closer look.

It seems the everlasting sun of the abstract day is finally setting. In its place comes the work of artists like Dan Llywelyn Hall - vibrant and explicit. His landscapes ( see more below) tell stories and evoke an atmosphere, they often menace but seldom stay still. In them figures move, where to and what they think we can only guess at.

But the new set of paintings take their human drama from history, the Greek myths, or as with Claudius and Britannia, a brilliant re creation of the brutality of conquest - the Romans in Britain to honour the great people our own ancestors, who once flourished here.

Dan Llywelyn Hall came to Cambridge earlier in his career. He carried off a First Prize in the outdoor painting competition in a field of over a hundred keen artists. Now his work has matured to create and enhance a whole new genre.

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