Mary Lloyd Jones is a well established and popular artist in Wales. She has exhibited widely since the mid 1960s, in Wales, elsewhere in Britain and internationally. Of her work she writes "My aim is that my work should reflect my identity, my relationship with the land, an awareness of history, and the treasure of our literary and oral traditions. I search for devices that will enable me to create multilayered works. This has led to my involvement with the beginnings of language, early man made marks and the Ogham and Bardic Alphabets."

2 textile wall hangings, 5ft x 5ft and 5ft x 12ft, these could fold down quite small and weigh approx 2 lb

Statement:

Concern to express anxiety about the damage to the environment caused by chemical poisoning and the destruction of essential resources through tree felling and mining was the driving force behind the creation of these works.

By making a direct connection with the techniques of patchwork, stitchery, and quilting this work is a celebration of the expressive possibilities of the traditions of women’s work in textiles which continues to be undervalued. Irregular shapes, torn and damaged fabric, rough unfinished edges are a deliberate rejection of stretched canvases and a masculine mainstream tradition. Staining, spilling, wiping, creasing and folding are all activities associated with domestic work but are here employed creatively.

The paintings are obviously fragile, could easily be destroyed, and will rot and disintegrate as part of the natural process.

An interest in early man- made marks, prehistoric carvings and the use of text are used to form a personal vocabulary reflecting identity.

The subject is damage; colour celebrates the land’s capacity for healing and regeneration.

"Global Warming" and "Climate Change" had not entered the language when this work was created, a fact which gives it a surprisingly prophetic dimension.