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photo by
Bernard Mitchell
. Ozi Rhys Osmond
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"Hebron", 1983
oil on paper
58x92cm
"Mewn Cadwyni", 1998
oil on paper
69x182cm
"Dyn y Cwm", 1999
oil on canvas
153x213cm
"Bachgen Grafitti", c.1999
oil on canvas
137x178cm
"Mewn Cadwyni", c.1999
oil on canvas
51x76cm
"Cibl Coch", c.2000
oil on canvas
137x178cm(artist's collections)
Ozi Rhys Osmond was born in 1942 in Wattville, Gwent, South Wales. From 1959 to 1964 he studied Fine Art at Newport College of Art, and in 1964/5 he did his MA at Cardiff College of Art. He has his studio in Swansea.
Shelagh Hourahane wrote in PLANET 136: "Ozi is forthright in his opinions and he is often challenging and provocative in what he has to say, e.g. "If everyone in Wales were a sunflower, we would all be facing towards London". Perhaps his passion comes from the forty or so years (in 1999) in which he has struggled with his sense of identity, striving to know his own country and culture and to express his knowledge through his painting and occasionally through witty texts... I listened to Ozi talking about his search for subjects which can be used as metaphors for the way in which a particular history is lost and even its memory obliterated. The coal tips in his paintings are huge, dark & overwhelming, or red, rough textured and pregnant with the threat of pollution...Osmond's own choice was to live in rural Wales and to pursue an artistic practice that is governed by daily observation of the natural world and by the exercise of particular skills in watercolour and the manipulation of rough, dry textured oil paint..."
More biographical mention in Iwan Bala's book 'Darllen Delweddau' (2000) p.59
Teaching Experiences:
Visiting lecturer at Dyfed College of Art; foundation course lecturer at Carmarthen College.
Awards & Commissions:
