Elizabeth Haines
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  My early work has been affected over the years both by an interest in the relationship between the different arts, and more recently by an injury which temporarily forced me to paint with the left hand, a practice I now continue. Painting with the left hand (and so, we are told, with the right side of the brain) has enabled me to work more freely from memory and imagination. My influences have been the early 20th century European painters such as Klee and Kandinsky and the British school, including Palmer, Hitchens, the St Ives painters and the Scottish colourists. My interest in the relationships between the different arts has developed over the years, and in 2001 I completed a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Wales, Lampeter.




1967 B.A. in Graphic Design.

1968 Came to live in Pembrokeshire.

1970-2001 Group Exhibitions; National Museum, Cardiff; Albany Gallery, Cardiff; Attic Gallery, Swansea; Taleisin, Swansea; St. David`s Hall Cardiff; The Royal Cambrian Academy; Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen; The Heifer Gallery, Islington; Covent Garden Festival. Tabernacl, Machynlleth;
Lectures and workshops with Art Societies and school children. Numerous book and commercial illustrations. Collections: Arts Council for Wales; Contemporary Art Society for Wales; University of Wales; Haverfordwest Museum; National Library of Wales, numerous private collections.

1979 Winner of Withybush Hospital competition.

1981-1984 Illustrations for two BBC ‘Jackanory’ programmes. Teaching at Carmarthen College of Art. (CCTA) Featured in Illustrators magazine.

1987 Winner of ‘Cerdd Dafod’ competition; Artist-in-Residence at the National Eisteddfod, Porthmadog; Artist-in-Residence at Gwyl Bro Preseli. 1990 Bursary from Welsh Arts Council to pursue research into the relationship between painting and music.

1992 Artist-in-Residence at six Pembrokeshire Primary Schools, 'Visual Literacy' project. Solo Exhibitions at St. John’s, Smith Square, London and the CCTA Henry Thomas Gallery.

1992-1993 Accompanied Dyfed Youth Choir and Llandovery College Choir on French tours as Artist-in-Residence. Teaching at CCTA.

1993 Exhibition to launch limited edition print of University of Wales, Lampeter. Commenced Ph.D. in Philosophy at Lampeter.

1994 Exhibition of drawings made during the 'Schnittke at 60' Festival at the Royal Academy of Music. Sketchbook purchased by the National Library of Wales.

1995 Completed critical study of the painter, Ruth Harvey, produced by Heliotrope Publishing.

1996 Retrospective exhibition at the National Library of Wales.

1997 Opened Studio gallery at Bryn Morris. Sketchbook of Rûg Estate, Corwen, commissioned for the Lord Newborough. Commenced Sketchbook recording the restoration of walled garden at Ty Glyn Davis, sponsored by The Gulbenkian Foundation.

1999 Working at Ecuries du Maroy, Redon, France. Joint exhibition at the Albany Gallery, Cardiff. Exhibition with Denis Curry at the Heifer Gallery, Islington.

2000 Discussion Paper ‘Cézanne Wagner Modulation, a Reply to Turner’ published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Exhibition at Bryn Morris Studio with Denis Curry. Artist in residence at Gwyl Bro Preseli. 2001 Paper ‘Do the Arts need Aesthetics’ published by The David Jones Society Journal. Awarded PhD in Philosophy.

2002 Exhibition at Oriel y Llys, Lampeter. Joint exhibition with Denis Curry at the Heifer Gallery.

2003 Solo shows at Queen's Hall Gallery, Narberth and Washington Gallery, Penarth.

2004 Group shows at Tidal Wave Gallery, Hereford, Queen's Hall, Narbeth and various art fairs with The Hayloft Gallery



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