Siwan
was born in Wales in 1974 and studied Fine Art at John Moores
University, Liverpool. Later a Masters, in Fine Art at Aberystwyth
School of Art.
“My
paintings use abstraction as a method and landscape experience as a
source. I never set out knowing what the finished piece will ever
look like; that is not the point. I have to ‘find’ the painting
through the processes of mark making and the layering and removing of
paint. This begins with walking and sketching in the hills and
searching for the next series of marks to take back to the studio.
Maybe no painting I produce can fully capture what I comprehend of the landscape but, as a painter, that is my endeavour. I do this by finding and controlling a pictorial space; something that translates and expresses a truth about the underlying pattern of things.”
