The last house at Llan Ffestiniog by Adam De Ville

Adam De Ville is a self taught artist from the Midlands, now living in Canterbury. At the heart of Adam’s approach is showing how the subject makes him feel.

Exhibitions: Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (award winner), Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (associate member and award winner), Wales Contemporary (award winner) ING Discerning Eye, New English Art Club, The Pastel Society and Royal Cambrian Academy of Art (award winner), as well as galleries in London, Dublin and Paris

I’ve been travelling through North Wales since I was a child. There’s an ‘working honesty’ running through the mountains, lakes, towns and people, and I wanted to show this in the worts n all approach to this little farm building. My practice is ‘anything goes so long as it’s driven by the heart and hand’. Painted in one session, it’s a result of channeling how I feel about the subject – truthfully without intellectual reasoning. A truth only realised through the act of painting