Mary Lloyd Jones is one of Wales’s most important artists. She was born in 1934 in Pontarfynach (Devil’s Bridge) and trained at Cardiff College of Art. She has been exhibiting her work since the 1960s, forging her way to becoming one of the most influential figures in Welsh visual art. Over the years, her work has taken her all over the world, but it is to the landscapes of Ceredigion that she returns for inspiration.



Through her bold use of colour and layers of varied marks, Mary has developed a distinctive visual language that brings together the personal and the historical. Her work moves between painting and textiles, where the process of working with fabric is integral to the meaning. The marks that cover her large canvases come from a wide range of sources - from prehistoric carvings to systems of language - reflecting the ways in which people have sought to record and interpret their world.