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Brenda Chamberlain (artist)

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Brenda Irene Chamberlain
Self portrait, 1938
(National Museum Wales)
Born ( 1912-03-17 ) 17 March 1912
Bangor , Wales
Died 11 July 1971 (1971-07-11) (aged 59)
Bangor, Wales
Nationality Welsh
Known for Painting, poetry
Spouse
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( m.  1935⁠–⁠1944) ​

Brenda Irene Chamberlain (17 March 1912 ? 11 July 1971) was a Welsh artist, poet and writer. She won the first two Gold Medals awarded by the National Eisteddfod of Wales in the Fine Art category, for her paintings Girl with a Siamese Cat (1951) and The Cristin Children (1953), and her written works include Tide-race , a memoir of 15 years spent living on Bardsey Island . An expatriate on the island of Hydra , Greece, from 1961 to 1967, she then returned to Wales, where she died in 1971. Her papers are preserved by the National Library of Wales ; examples of her artworks are found in several collections.

Early life and education [ edit ]

Chamberlain on a boat transporting cattle, during a pilgrimage to Bardsey Island in 1950. Photograph by Geoff Charles .

Chamberlain was born in Bangor , the daughter of Francis Thomas Chamberlain and Elsie Cooil Chamberlain. Her father worked for the railway. Her mother served a term on the Bangor Borough Council, and was later Mayor of Bangor during World War II. [1]

In 1931, Chamberlain began her studies as an artist at the Royal Academy Schools in London. [2]

Ty'r Mynydd, Rachub, where Chamberlain lived with John Petts

Works [ edit ]

Chamberlain ran the Caseg Press in Bethesda , Wales, with her then-husband the artist John Petts , and the poet Alun Lewis . [3] The collective produced postcards and bookplates, for which Chamberlain made woodcuts . Caseg Broadsheets featured poetry by Chamberlain and others [ who? ] . [4] [3] [5] The cottage they shared, Ty'r Mynydd, bears a plaque commemorating their work.

Chamberlain also produced prose works, including Tide-Race (1962), a memoir of life at Carreg, Bardsey Island , where she lived and worked from 1947 until 1962. [6] The publication of Tide-Race coincided with a solo exhibition of Chamberlain's paintings at the Zwemmer Gallery in London. [7]

Chamberlain won the first two Gold Medals awarded by the National Eisteddfod of Wales for Fine Art, in 1951 for the painting Girl with a Siamese Cat and in 1953 for The Cristin Children . [8] [7]

In 1961 Chamberlain went to live on the Greek island of Hydra , but returned to Wales in 1967. Her novel A Rope of Vines draws from her time in Hydra, while her play The Protagonists (published 2013, first performed 1968) details the 1967 right-wing coup which led to the Greek junta .

Legacy [ edit ]

There are artworks by Chamberlain in the National Museum Wales , National Library of Wales , Bangor University , Cyfarthfa Castle and Royal Holloway, University of London . [9] There is a collection of her papers, including sketches, letters, poems, photographs, diaries, and unpublished works, in the National Library of Wales. [10]

Kate Holman published an academic biography of Brenda Chamberlain in 1997. [11] Jill Piercy published another biography of Chamberlain in 2013. [1]

Personal life [ edit ]

Before the Second World War , Chamberlain moved in with the artist John Petts . They married in 1935, and in 1936 they moved to Rachub , a village near Bethesda. The cottage they shared, Ty'r Mynydd, bears a plaque commemorating their work. [12] [13] The couple were divorced in 1944.

Chamberlain died in 1971, age 59, in Bangor, after an overdose of sedatives. Her remains were interred at Glanadda Cemetery in Bangor. [2]

Published works [ edit ]

  • The Green Heart (1958)
  • Tide-Race (1962) ( ISBN   9780907476658 )
  • The Water Castle (1964) ( ISBN   978-1908069795 )
  • A Rope of Vines (1965) ( ISBN   9781905762866 )
  • Poems with Drawings (1969) ( ISBN   0901111066 )

Further reading [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b Jill Piercy, Brenda Chamberlain: Artist and Writer (Parthian Books 2013). ISBN   9781906998233
  2. ^ a b "Brenda Chamberlain" Wales Arts, BBC Cymru Wales.
  3. ^ a b Alison Smith, John Petts and the Caseg Press (Ashgate 1999). ISBN   9780754600343
  4. ^ "Finding Aid ? Brenda Chamberlain manuscripts (GB 0210 MSBREAIN)" (PDF) . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 7 September 2020 .
  5. ^ Adams, Linda (1999). "Fieldwork: The Caseg Broadsheets and the Welsh Anthropologist". Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays . 5 : 51?85.
  6. ^ "Brenda Chamberlain and Bardsey Island" Archived 5 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine , Bardsey Island Trust.
  7. ^ a b Peter Lord (2000). The Visual Culture of Wales: Imaging a Nation . University of Wales Press, Cardiff. ISBN   0708315879 .
  8. ^ Gold Medal for Fine Art Archived 30 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine , The National Eisteddfod of Wales. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  9. ^ "Art UK | Discover Artworks" . artuk.org .
  10. ^ Brenda Chamberlain MSS , National Library of Wales.
  11. ^ Kate Holman, Brenda Chamberlain (University of Chicago Press 1997). ISBN   9780708310489
  12. ^ SH6268: Ty'r mynydd , Mountain Street, Rachub, Geograph.org.uk
  13. ^ "Brenda Chamberlain ? 1912-1971" . Writers Plaques . Literature Wales . Archived from the original on 23 April 2017.

External links [ edit ]

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