Martin Llewellyn
There is a quiet power in the landscapes of Martin Llewellyn, a strength that lies not only in the weight of oil paint pulled thickly across canvas, but in the deep rooted connection between artist and place. For Martin, the land is not just a subject. It is memory, language, tradition, and belonging. It is hiraeth the untranslatable Welsh longing for home and all it represents. His work evokes that feeling with intensity: raw and textural, yet composed and still.
Born in Neath, South Wales in 1963, Martin Llewellyn is a self taught artist whose journey into professional painting began later in life. Initially experimenting with pencil, then watercolour, it was only when he turned to oil paint and committed fully to the palette knife that he found his true voice. From that point onward, his paintings became unmistakable. With bold, muscular pallette knife application and an instinctive command of tone, he began rendering the Welsh landscape in a way that felt both timeless and utterly new.