About

Awards

2018 Elected to Membership of Sculpture Cymru

Royal Cambrian Academy Open, Highly Commended

2016 Flourish Award, West Yorkshire Print Centre, shortlisted

ELIA, European League of Institutes of Art, nomination

Royal Academy Summer Show, London finalist

2015 Welsh Art Graduate 2015

Print Proof Scholarship, Regional Print Centre, Wrexham

BA Fine Art (Hons) First Class

Royal Academy Summer Show, London finalist

2014 Student Prize, Wrexham Open, Shortlisted

Exhibited

2018 Oriel Brondanw, Penrhyndeudraeth

Mid Wales Art Gallery, Caersws

Angela Scott Studio & Gallery, Sodylt

North Wales Open, Oriel Theatr Clwyd, Mold

Painting with Words, Willow Gallery, Oswestry

Royal Cambrian Academy Open,

2017 Bijoux, Willow Gallery, Oswestry

Royal Cambrian Academy Open

Open Studios, Willow Gallery, Oswestry

2016 Royal Academy Summer Show (finalist)

Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno (selected)

Willow Gallery, Oswestry

Blossoms Gallery, Aberystwyth

Oriel Ynys Mon, Anglesey (selected)

Moving Minds, Oriel Sycharth, Wrexham (selected)

Ignite, Undegun, Wrexham

Royal Cambrian Academy Open, Conwy

2015 Royal Academy Summer Show, London (finalist)

Welsh Graduates of the Year Show, Millennium Centre, Cardiff

North Wales Open, Oriel Wrexham

2012 - 2015 - BA Hons Fine Art, Glyndwr University, Wrexham

Through her work Myra attempts to convey aspects of the human condition that language alone cannot fully communicate. Exploring what is normally hidden from view she gives visual presence to the inner self, to feelings and emotions, in a way that may be universally understood.

Drawing using non-traditional materials there is an energy, an immediacy, in

Myra`s use of line, rhythm and repetition. Capturing the moment of painting,

pouring, wrapping, drawings may be layered, manipulated and taken into space to

create 3 dimensional structures. Structures which are visceral; physical; tactile.

Working quickly and instinctively with big, gestural movements, the repetitive,

rhythmic action allows the conscious mind to relax and the subconscious to come

into play. Thoughts flow from mind, through body, into hands.

The fragile, ephemeral, materials reflect the tenuous nature of life and are

metaphors for the body, where the body isn`t present but is implied. There are

tensions in the work between loss and vulnerability, confinement and freedom,

concealment and exposure. Familiar materials used in unexpected ways bring

additional layers of meaning, allowing multiple interpretations. The work is

deliberately open, ambiguous, thought provoking; encouraging the viewer to

pause for a moment to consider, to reflect and to interpret the clues left within the

work.

Myra is an artist living and working in North Wales.