TODAY (Friday) sees the opening of a 'Post Fresco Wall Pieces' exhibition by Alan Osborne at the Queen's Hall Gallery, Narberth.
Alan was born at Merthyr Tydfil in 1942 and having studied at Newport Art Gallery and Oxford, taught and lectured from 1967-1998, specialising in life drawing, history and art and architecture, design and technology, writing and devising for the stage, radio and television.
His plays, operas and films have been publicly performed and broadcast, and his latest success was an opera, Katerina, performed by the WNO with over 400 local school children in Rydycar leisure centre, Merthyr Tydfil.
Three of his well known plays are published by Parthian Books under the title 'The Merthyr Trilogy'.
There will be a reading from a play that is part of a new opera, Osci Fabulari, in the Queen's Hall, at 7 pm tonight, before the opening of the exhibition in the gallery at 8.30 pm.
Two Shakespearean actors, Josh Richards and Wyndham Price, will be reading from this play which should prove to be an interesting start to an evening which will display Alan's further talents.
A new concept of a catalogue produced on a CD will be for sale, and this will enable purchasers to reproduce high quality prints of the artist's work. This is in conjunction with the launch of a new website, Art for Art Sake, set up by Henry Langen to promote artists' work and make reproductions accessible. For more information, visit http://www.art-for-art-sake.com">www.art-for-art-sake.com or email [email protected]">[email protected].
The exhibition will be open 10 am - 5.30 pm Thursday, Friday and Saturdays, plus other times when gallery is not in use. Tel. (01834) 861212 to check if travelling far.
The exhibition runs until December.