page_title: Brenda Chamberlain (artist)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Brenda Chamberlain (artist) / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Ty'r Mynydd, Mountain Street, Rachub. Ty'r Mynydd simply means 'smallholding in the mountain'. This cottage, which has been renovated and enlarged in recent years, bears a plaque celebrating the Welsh artist and writer, Brenda Chamberlain (1912-1971). Brenda Chamberlain is best remembered for her paintings of Bardsey Island fishermen. She lived on Bardsey SH1121 for some years. http://www.apxb46.dsl.pipex.com/Brenda%20Chamberlain.pdf http://www.bardsey.org/english/the_island/arts.htm
context_page_description: Brenda Irene Chamberlain was a Welsh artist, poet and novelist. She also wrote a memoir of the 15 years she spent living on Bardsey Island. She won the first two Gold Medals ever awarded by the National Eisteddfod of Wales in the Fine Art category.
context_section_description: Before the Second World War, Chamberlain moved in with the artist John Petts. They married in 1935, but were divorced in 1944. During their time together, they lived in a cottage at Llanllechid and ran the Caseg Press from their home. Chamberlain made woodcuts and broadsheets for the press. The cottage they shared, Ty'r Mynydd, now bears a plaque commemorating their work there.
  Chamberlain also produced prose works, including a novel (The Water Castle, 1964) and The Tide Race, a memoir of life at Carreg, Bardsey Island, where she lived and worked from 1947 until 1962. The publication of The Tide Race coincided with a solo exhibition of Chamberlain's paintings at the Zwemmer Gallery in London.
  Chamberlain won the first two Gold Medals awarded by the National Eisteddfod of Wales for Fine Art, in 1951 for the painting Girl with a Siamese Cat and in 1953 for The Cristin Children.
caption: Ty'r Mynydd, Mountain Street, Rachub - geograph.org.uk - 431202
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