Mary Lloyd Jones

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Jones' main inspiration - the landscape surrounding her Devil's Bridge birthplace.

Mary Lloyd Jones is filmed in her studio working with colourful dyes brushed onto fabric, though she is better known for her work creating paintings inspired by the landscape around her Devil's Bridge birthplace. She talks about the importance to her art of living in west Wales and how she is inspired by the variety and geology of the landscape particularly around the nearby old lead mines. She looks at the role of 1970's feminism in her work and how this motivated her to try to create work that clearly said that it was made by a woman. So began her work with fabrics - cloths and dyes - combining the geometric and bold shapes of quilting with elements of the natural world to make it appear fragile and threatened.
From: Framing Wales Episode 4
First Broadcast : 17 March 2011

Teachers' notes

Age Group : 7-9,9-11,11-14,14-16

Subject : Geography, Art & Design

Topic : Physical geography, Landscapes, Mixed media, Natural world

Keywords : Dyes, Quilting, Mary Lloyd Jones, Feminism, Devil's Bridge,

Notes : Pupils could look at maps of the Devil's Bridge area and discuss and note down it's key features - contours, valleys, hills etc.They could also compare the map of the Devils Bridge area with their own area. Mary Lloyd Jones has a very abstract interpretation of the landscape - they could create an abstract piece of work representing their own area having first made preliminary sketches and decided on symbols and colours to use. Pupils could experiment with painting onto fabric with different kinds of paint and fabric inks creating bold brush strokes and bold areas of colour. They could also try to create an abstract piece in which they use several mediums e.g. paint, chalks, pastels, charcoal on the same piece.

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