Clyde Holmes has exhibited 
                    widely in England, Wales and Europe and has work in public 
                    and private collections here and abroad. He was born in London 
                    and studied fine art at Hornsey College of Art and St Martin's 
                    School of Art 1965-68. Clyde's work featured in 'Visions of 
                    Snowdonia' series, narrated by Sir Anthony Hopkins, BBC2 1997. 
                     
                  My painting is concerned with expressing the mystery and 
                    power of the wilder aspects of the landscape which we're all 
                    part of - there's no difference between nature outside us 
                    and nature inside us. In my exhibitions I bring together (in 
                    a variety of ways) the two halves of my work, poetry and painting. 
                    In my painting I've been attempting to express the silent 
                    dialogue between light and dark. We all live somewhere between 
                    lightness and darkness. Constable said that landscape was 
                    just another word for feeling. I'm trying to communicate these 
                    mood swings of the 'uplandscapes' of Snowdonia through cloud-shadow 
                    flaring, wavering, interfolding and gesturing - the rhythms 
                    informing the shapes on the slopes. The uplands are full of 
                    wind and light working off one another, a constant flux of 
                    light and shadow. 
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