PERMANENT COLLECTION
Llantarnam Grange has been building its permanent collection of contemporary works of art and craft for over 55 years.
The Permanent Collection has been made possible by the generosity of; Frank Hamer, Margaret Jones, Alison Howard, Sue Alder and Huw Griffiths, the artists and their families/estates.
Our Permanent Collection features work by;
Elieen Allan, Lewis Allan, Jessie Bayes, Sarah Bradford, Evenlyn Brearley, Mick Brown, William Brown, Brendan Burns, George Codsell, Gerda Coldicott, Howard Coles, Richard Cox, Jack Crabtree, Gary Day, Liz Elmhirst, Margaret Genge, Ray Goodman, Ashraf Hanna, Janet Hamer, Ruth Harries, Rozanne Hawksley, David Hobbs, Terry Jones, Maria Korvsiewicz, Andy Lumborg, Caroline MacMichael, Philip Muirden, Colin Orchard, Michael Organ, Arlie Panting, Rhoda Partridge, Grant Petrey, Paul Peter Piech, Shelagh Popham, Lillian Rathmell, Thomas Rathmell, Mark Saunders, John Selway, Ivan Tarasjuk, David Tinker, John Wright and Ernest Zobole.
You can also discover some of our permanent collection through the ARTUK website here.
View Our Permanent Collection
Some of the works from the collection are displayed on our first floor; in the Selway Room, Zobole Room and corridor. In these spaces, we aim to provide a turnover of works available to view from our permanent collection.
Accessibility
Please note that due to the historical nature of our building, we currently do not have disabled access to the first floor.
Availability
Please note that our rooms are sometimes booked for private events, meetings, or other activities. If you are planning a visit for a specific time, you can get in touch by contacting reception on 01633 483321 or emailing: hello@llantarnamgrange.com, and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Room Hire
If you are interested in hiring out one of our rooms, please visit our Room Hire page for more information.
Virtual Tour
Navigate left and travel upstairs to our Selway Room and Zobole Room and explore some of our permanent collection.
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Selway Room
Our Selway Room was created in July 2022 to showcase the work of Welsh artist, John Selway. The Selway Room contains a changing display of John’s work, some of which is for sale (Own Art is not available for John Selway’s work, but please ask a member of staff regarding payment options).
Over the last 20 years Llantarnam Grange has exhibited John’s work many times, in both collaborative and solo shows. In 2015, Llantarnam Grange exhibited ‘Trans Iberia’, an exceptional body of work, reflecting, as John put it ‘the rather haphazard nature of my many journeys over the years and my different responses’.
John sadly passed away in 2017. Since then, Llantarnam Grange has continued to collaborate with his family, to find ways to continue to show his work to the public.
John Selway (1938-2017)
John Selway was born to Welsh parents in the small south Yorkshire colliery town of Askern, near Doncaster, and then returned home to Wales, where he lived and worked in Abertillery. He attended Newport College of Art, where he was taught by Tom Rathmell and first became interested in abstraction.
He studied at the Royal College of Art, London, before being awarded a University of London Boise Travelling Scholarship to paint in Portugal. The first of a lifelong love of the peninsular, which inspired ‘Trans Iberia’. On return to Wales, he taught at Newport College of Art for many years and was a visiting lecturer at Carmarthenshire College of Art. He has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. His work is represented in many public and private collections, including the National Museum and Galleries Wales.
Zobole Room
Our Zobole Room displays work by Terry Jones, Richard Cox, Thomas Rathmell, Arlie Panting and Ernest Zobole, whom the room is named after.
Ernest Zobole (1927- 1999)
Regarded as one of the visionary Artists of Wales, Zobole was born in Ystrad, in the heart of the Rhondda Valley, to immigrant parents from Southern Italy. He attended Cardiff College of Art and taught at Newport College of Art. Zobole was a painter firmly rooted in Industrial South Wales and was intensely absorbed with his locality and considered himself part of the landscape. He used the unique geography and community of the Rhondda Valley as the primary inspiration for his paintings.
