BERT ISAAC RWA
Date of Birth: February 21, 1923
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Profession: Artist
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Bert Isaac lives and works in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. He has exhibited paintings and prints regularly in the UK and overseas. He has work in many public and private collections including the National Museum and Gallery of Wales, the Contemporary Art Society of Wales, Urawa City Gallery of Modern Art in Japan and the Universities of Oxford and London.
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He was a founder member of the Welsh Group and of the Watercolour Society of Wales, an Honorary Artist-Member of the Royal Cambrian Academy and a Senior Academician of the RWA. He is the winner of a Gold Medal of the National Eisteddfod of Wales and in June 1999 he was awarded the M.B.E. in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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He has designed and contributed drawings to a number of books, of which 'The Landscape Within' has a written text by him and a folio of prints published by The Old Stile Press, Llandogo.
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In making observations about art in general Isaac comments that…
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'Most artists paint in the form of a journey. It may be a search for an aesthetic principle. It is usually a search for ways of doing certain painterly things or even better to discover the identity of the painter himself…….There is often a great deal of intuitive hitting and missing before a comfortable pathway is chanced upon.'
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