The fourth biennial Celebration of Contemporary Welsh Painting, a Wales-wide series of exhibitions, launches this month and will continue at 16 venues across the country until February 2025.

The focus, as in the previous three editions of the event, is to give exhibition space to some of Wales’s most significant painters and those who are up and coming, as well as featuring high quality work from students in colleges and/or schools. 

In Powys there are seven participating venues.

The first five exhibitions in Powys are:

• y Gaer, Brecon, June 29 – September 15. A solo exhibition of work - Field of Souls - by Keith Bayliss in collaboration with David Thomas, words, and Joe Bayliss, sound, opens at y Gaer Museum, Library and Art Gallery in Brecon. For information visit www.storipowys.org.uk/whats-on or phone: 01874 623346.

• Found Gallery, Brecon, July 2 - August 4. The gallery will be showing work by Nina Krauzewicz, Josie d’Arby, whose landscapes are the result of a solo journey around Wales to interpret in her own way the country where she was born and raised, and a collaboration entitled Diptych by Sarah Hopkins and Muhammad Atif Khan. For information visit: www.foundgallery.co.uk

• Ardent Gallery, Brecon, July 4 - August 3. This is an exhibition featuring work by Joy Saunders, Chantel Ridley, Beatrice Williams, Matt Williams and John Wynne Hopkins. For information visit: www.ardentgallery.co.uk

• Hay Castle Café, Hay, July 4 - September 29. A solo exhibition of work by Maggy Roberts will showcase her dynamic and colourful abstractions of local landscapes with a selection of work in different media in other galleries. For information visit: www.haycastletrust.org phone: 01497 820079.

• Tower Gallery, Crickhowell, July 25 - September 22. This features Robert Macdonald and Philippine Sowerby. For information visit: www.towergallery.co.uk or phone: 01873 812495.     

COWCP will then continue throughout the autumn, including three more events in Powys.

These are: Community Gallery, Theatr Brycheiniog (September 6 - October 21), The Table Gallery, Hay-on-Wye (September 7 - 28) and Glasbury Arts (October 18 - 22).

For further details and the full schedule of exhibitions across Wales, including beyond into 2025, visit www.COWCP.com