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Charles Wyatt Warren Biography
Charles Wyatt Warren (1908-1993) was a self-taught painter and an enthusiastic supporter of the arts in North Wales. He painted the breath taking scenery around his native Snowdonia in the impasto, palette knife sculpted style of the North Welsh school made famous by its master, the late Sir Kyffin Williams.
Charles Wyatt Warren was born on the 15th August, 1908. His father, who shared the same name, was an artist and engraver. The majority of his life was spent in Caernarfon where he attended the local grammar school before going on to further studies at London University, and employment with the local County council.
Despite being ten years his junior, the noted painter Sir Kyffin Williams was both a mentor and influence on Wyatt Warren. Williams had studied at prestigeous and progressive Slade School during the 1940s and intruduced Warren to the techniques and ideas he had learned from his teachers and fellow students. The most influential technique passed from Williams to Warren was the use of the palette knife and thick impasto that would characterise both artists work.
Wyatt Warren exhibited regularly including at the Royal Cambrian Academy, the Denbighshire Art Society, the Royal Institute of Painters in Oils, the Royal National Eisteddfod, Albany Gallery and Yew Tree Cottage Gallery. Paintings were comissioned from Warren by NATO and University College Bangor and his work is represented in many UK public collections including Derbyshire County Council, Gwynedd County Council, the Contemporary Arts Society (Wales), the National Library of Wales, the Government Art Collection, Caernarfon Royal Town Council and the Oriel Mon gallery on Anglesey.
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