Journey: The Family Collection of Gwilym Prichard and Claudia Williams

It is a great honour to be offering to auction The Family Collection of Paintings by Gwilym Prichard and Claudia Williams. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the family for their trust and their confidence.

Paintings from both artists have graced almost every one of our three times per year Welsh Sale auction in the last twenty years. But to see so many pictures by Gwilym and Claudia in one catalogue and one space is incredibly exciting. The collection, now hung together in our Cardiff auction room, really is a sight to behold. Like a firework display, the saleroom is alive in technicolour. Whether there is wall space at your home for a purchase or two or not, every follower and enthusiast of Welsh art should take this unique opportunity to come and view the auction. It is a Welsh art exhibition like no other and which is unlikely to be repeated.

It will also be an opportunity to see a very personal collection of paintings. The pictures by two of Wales’ favourite artists have until now been retained by the family because of their affection for each example. Ultimately, there were too many pictures for the family to accommodate practically - they were stored away for years because sometimes it is just so hard to let go. We are truly privileged!

The collection is akin to a life-long family album documenting two artistic lives. There are landscapes of where the artists started their lives together, there are landscapes of where they embarked on their artistic adventures further afield, and there are landscapes of where Claudia and Gwilym finally settled back in Wales.

There are family snapshots too, deeply emotional moments captured between mother and child and lighter moments when the larger family gets together to celebrate life, love and those easy relationships you can only enjoy between siblings, parents and grandparents. Most intimate of all are those moments captured between the two artists, moments that only a long marriage and life-journey together, can possibly explain.

‘Journey: The Family Collection of Gwilym Prichard and Claudia Williams’ is a wonderful and very special Welsh art family album.

View the full catalogue online here.