Artist takes Liverpool landscapes across the border

Oct 6 2008 by Vicky Anderson, Liverpool Daily Post

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MUCH-LOVED Liverpool artist Frank Green has a new exhibition – over the border.

Pictures by Frank Green has opened at Oriel Dafydd Hardy, Caernarfon, spanning the period from the early 1960s to the present day.

The Walton artist, known for his paintings of the city, trained at Liverpool Art College but has had strong links with Wales all his life.

The drawings on display in Caernarfon, where he has close family, are either finished works or preparatory working drawings for paintings.

Green has been passionate about the Liverpool landscape during and since his days at college, and his work is a valuable record of the demolition of the streets of Everton in the 1970s. More recently, he has used his art to oppose plans by Liverpool Football Club to build on Stanley Park in Anfield.

But Green says that there is no part of Liverpool which he has painted that does not have the imprint of Welshmen.

He was brought up in the Cunard Roads area of Walton, which was built by a Welshman and where many Welsh-speaking people lived.

The junior and senior schools which he attended had Welsh headmasters from Caernarfonshire, and the College of Art had a large Welsh contingent.

Pictures of Liverpool, Italy, Malta and Wales will be exhibited.

The exhibition is on until October 24. Usually dedicated to up-and-coming art students to encourage talent from the area, the gallery showcases work from an established artist once a year, with a portion of all profits from work sold donated to the gallery.