14/07/2026
🌊 Artist Spotlight- Terry Davies 🐟
Born in Borth, West Wales - with roots stretching back four centuries - my art has never really left the Ceredigion coast, even after decades lecturing and making work in Australia, with detours through US workshops and residencies.
My recurring fish and crustacea aren’t just images. They’re food, memory, survival - the language of a place that fed generations before me.
Growing up, I heard the last of the old Welsh-speaking storytellers: seafarers with a lifetime of tales, and women whose quiet stoicism carried Borth through tragedy after tragedy. You didn’t need the classics to understand the human condition here, you just had to grow up in this sea-girt village.
I was hunter, fisher, gatherer before I was ever an artist - learning the seasons, the limits, the duty of care that keeps a place alive.
The Welsh have a word for it: brogarwch-love of place. It’s the root of everything I make.
Each drawing is a kind of ceremony, zoomorphic, shape-shifted, half-memory and half-magic.
Where past and present gather to charge old themes with new emotion.
I call this imagined, willed-into-being world Coastal Pastoral.
📍 Come and see Terry’s beautiful work:
Waterfront Gallery, The Old Sail Loft, Discovery Quay, The Docks, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire SA73 3AF
🕥 Summer Opening Monday - Saturday, 10:30am–4pm
