On Saturday, June 4, the new exhibition - ‘Retrospective/Adolygol 1972 – 2022’ by Mark Raggett was officially opened at Tenby Museum and Art Gallery.

The exhibition was opened by Jamie Leonard, who spoke about the “two very driving streams in Mark’s life in creativity, one being film, the other being painting.

His technique with line and pigment is remarkable and never fails him. It is a wonderful show and deserves lots of red dots.”

Jamie has worked in film as a designer for many years, his credits including Alan Clarke’s Made In Britain, Neil Jordan’s Mona Lisa and Brian Gilbert’s Tom and Viv, where he first met Mark.

This is Mark Raggett’s fourth exhibition at the museum since he first showed there in 2012.

Mark, a native of Solva, studied Fine Art at Reading University and worked in theatre and opera as a scenic artist and prop maker at the National Theatre, Royal Opera House and the Coliseum before joining the design department at Thames Television in 1979.

In 1984 he went freelance as an art director in film and television and has worked widely in the film world since that time.

His most recent work has seen him as Supervising Art Director on the Netflix series, The Crown. In 2011 he was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Watercolour Society, being elected a Full Member in 2014; in 2015 he was elected Vice-President of the Society. He has exhibited widely across the world.

Of his own work, Mark said: “My work continues to be a balance between the abstract and the representational.

“I have always adhered to the importance of recording nature ‘in situ’ and returning to the studio to develop the ideas through paint, charcoal, collage, pen and ink. The Pembrokeshire landscape continues to be my muse.”

This wonderful exhibition runs until July 9.

Museum curator Mark Lewis is pictured with Mark Raggett and Jamie Leonard.