An Exploration of the Rhinog Area of Snowdonia

Last week I visited this magnificent area that time has forgotten as the beginning of my MA Project on the marks left behind by man through the ages.

Here are three of the images taken on that beautiful but very cold day:

3,500bc Cromlech

Ancient Wall

Pont Scethin - the old route from London to Harlech

Ruined Farm with Standing Stone

MA In Fine Art at Aberystwyth

MA in Fine Art at Aberystwyth Specialising in Photography

Jean has been accepted on the MA in Fine Art at Aberystwyth starting in September.  Her project is the Rhinog area of North Wales, a wild place where less people live now than any time in human history.  She will be documenting 'marks' left by man over the centuries - a project that will take over three years.


Blaen-y-Cwm Farm

A New Exhibition in Oswestry mid Wales

Willow Gallery in Willow Street, Oswestry

My exhibition Llanw - Tide is now on at the Willow Gallery until 31st May.

It captures the effects on the coast of North Wales of the sea over different aspects of time.  From the short term as in marks made in the sand; secondly, shaping and carving wooden structures and finally the longterm softening and rounding of the rocks

One of My Images Chosen by MOMA Wales!

The prestigious mid Wales Gallery "y Tabernacl - Museum of Modern Art" in Machynlleth has bought one of my images for their collection!  This is a great honour!

The image chosen is a black-and-white image of Beach Wood taken on the Menai Straits:-

Beach Wood

Two North Wales images accepted for Prestigious Gallery!

Jean Napier arps has had two photographic images accepted by The Cambrian Academy for their prestigious Open Show in January 2012.  These two images appear in her latest Rivers of Wales book entitled "The River Conwy - Source to Sea" which follows the river from its source in Llyn Conwy high up in the Welsh hinterland to where it flows into Conwy Bay by Llandudno.

More from the exhibition here:-

Autumn Day at Erddig - A Very Special SLR Part 1 and Part 2 Workshop

The sun shone for us last Saturday and the students took some very special images!

Comments from the two days:-

Dear Jean
Thank you so much for yesterday's Part 2 DSLR camera course. This was by far the best course I have been on. I now feel I have much greater understanding of my camera, its capabilities and limitations. I look forward to taking real pictures in the future and not just snaps. I also look forward to more of your courses next year.
Best wishes Jane

Hi Jean

 Just wanted to thank you again. I enjoyed the workshop so much.

I learnt such a lot and have been practicing and going over everything we did on Saturday, and loving it all.

 Also I looked in my warranty on my exisiting camera and it is still covered, so they told me to send it to them and they will clean it or replace, so all is good.

My new one is on the way too, one day I will move on to a DSLR and hopefuly meet you again for some more amazing instruction!

Kind Regards  Becci

Here are some of the images taken by the students:

A Fantastic Autumn Weekend in Coed y Brenin - mid Wales!

A Great Autumn Weekend in the Forest of the King!

On the 13th and 14th October my students and I spent two fab days in the forest - the Saturday on a Water and Movement workshop and Sunday a superb walk through the autumn colours deep in the forest visiting the magnificent waterfalls by the goldmine ruins.