A POWYS arts centre is hosting its inaugural open day later this month.

Visitors to Llanwrtyd and District Heritage and Art Centre on Thursday, August 24, can meet the artists whose work is being displayed throughout the month.

You will be able to discuss their methods with them and watch them work, before viewing their work in the galleries. The artists will be available from 10.30am to 12.30pm and again from 2-4pm.

Various hues of this summer colour are reflected in the work displayed by some outstanding artists at the centre throughout August. 

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Jane Evans is a keen photographer with an interest in alternative photography techniques and, using the cyanotype process, she produces photographic images on paper and fabric using flowers, feathers, seaweed and other 2D and 3D objects. Taking the process further, Jane also produces cyanolumens, which are more subtle in appearance.

Christine Williams uses pigmented beeswax as her medium for her paintings, obtaining pure beeswax from beekeepers and blending the colours herself. Some she can obtain already pigmented, but she prefers the range and subtlety of her own blends. Her brushes are a small travelling iron, a soldering iron (for detail) and a hot air gun. 

Anita Woods is displaying at the centre for the first time with her exhibition ‘Fauna’. A figurative artist inspired by the animals, landscape and sea of west Wales where she lives, Anita works mainly in mixed media but also sometimes in oil and watercolour. Her beautiful night-time studies of wildlife reveal the beauty of her work.

The vibrancy of this artwork is complemented by our two ceramicists both new to the centre.

Karen Williams provides wonderful ceramics using clay, fire and smoke, to create statement raku fired ceramics. Raku firing is hands-on and spontaneous, with a firing taking about 40 minutes. By the nature of the process, raku ceramics are decorative resulting in unique, tactile and eye-catching.

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Adrian Munday set up his studio in 2019 and since then has developed his art in wheel throwing, slab work and slip casting and allows the glazes to show off his creations and recently developing his skill incorporating raku is having success with thin-walled slip cast spheres.

Together with Karen, Adrian is now experimenting with saggar firing and combining coloured glass with raku.

Other opening times are 10pm-4pm Thursday to Sunday and on bank holidays entrance is free.