Bernard Van Lierop
Honorary Life Member

In 1996, I moved from Wolverhampton in the West Midlands to Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, to a house overlooking the town's Old Harbour. From this viewpoint I have made a series of works that combine photographic images in groups of two (diptychs) or more (polyptychs). In 2009 to 2010 VOGA were Artists in Residence at the nearby Dyffryn House and Gardens, where I began a new series of photographic polyptychs (to see some of the results, visit bvanlierop.wordpress.com). My other work includes drawing, painting, sculpture and more traditional printmaking processes.

"Art Trip to London" (2005) Giclee Print on Watercolour Paper, in an edtion of 20. I photographed the top two frames while standing in front of the National Gallery. The one on the right shows the steeple tip of St Martins in the Fields. The lower two frames were taken from Blackfriars bridge, a visual link between St Paul's Cathedral and the old power station Chimney of Tate Modern, then newly opened.

"Forming in the Hand of the Firmament" (Linocut 2012). The title is my translation of "Ffurfio . . . yn llaw'r ffurfafen" from the poem "Burning" by Welsh Poet Menna Elfyn, from her collection "Perfect Blemish" (Bloodaxe, 2007). The poem was chosen by VOGA as the theme of our exhibition at the 2012 National Eisteddfod, held that year in the Vale of Glamorgan. To see my most ambitious linoprint, visit my blog on vogaexposed.blogspot.co.uk.

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