As part of the third biennial ‘Celebration of Contemporary Welsh Painting’, a Crickhowell gallery will present its 50th exhibition, featuring work by its members alongside an exhibition of work made on location in Wales.

The Tower Gallery exhibition opens today (Thursday, July 28) and runs until September 18 this year.

The Celebration of Contemporary Welsh Painting, which continues in 11 venues across Wales until the end of February 2023, aims 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.

As it has from the beginning, the Celebration of Contemporary Welsh Painting will aim to ensure that at least 50 per cent of the featured artists are women, reflecting the many talented but previously under-represented women painting in Wales.

At The Tower Gallery, all the regular members of the cooperative - Hannah Firmin, Robert Macdonald, Graeme Galvin, Kath Littler, Philippine Sowerby, Veronica Gibson and Leslie Lilywhite will be showing work in what will be the gallery’s 50th exhibition.

Running at the same time is an exhibition, entitled Four Paths Four Artists, featuring work by illustrator and printmaker Andy Lovell, illustrator, painter and printmaker Blaise Thompson, Mick Armson, who works on location producing drawings and paintings that form the basis for lino prints produced in his studio, and Dan Williams, a professional illustrator for 30 years. The four have completed ten drawing expeditions together over recent years, to various UK locations, the latest of which was a second trip to the Brecon Beacons, the results of which can be seen in the current exhibition.

The Tower Gallery was founded in 2014 to provide a showcase for some of the leading lights of the community of artists in the Usk Valley, centred on the towns of Crickhowell, Brecon and Abergavenny, and is run as an artists’ collective. For more information please visit Towergallery.co.uk

For full details of all 11 venues and the artists exhibiting at each, visit www.cowcp.co.uk/