Fe29 Gallery has a selection of Edward Povey paintings, drawings and lithographs for sale. These works are from 1973 to late 2015, covering a large portion of his career.
BIOGRAPHY
1972-73 Eastbourne College for Art and Design: Fine Art (studies drawing)
1974-81 University of Wales: studies painting under Welsh artist Selwyn Jones. Studies composition and portraiture. Povey undertakes public and private commissions, including 25 multi-story murals throughout Wales and England (documented by the BBC and British National Newspapers). Shows at the Royal Exchange, London; Bangor City Museum, Wales.
1981-82 Commission: The Trial of Saint Deiniol: 19-panel, 18 x 21 ft. painting.
1982-86 Povey’s The Trial of Saint Deiniol painting is exhibited at Art Expo New York 1986 (photographed by Times photographer Dith Pran). Povey is advised by George Bush Senior’s former campaign manager, Zena Temkin, on shaping his public persona. He is interviewed for the BBC by the former President of the Royal Academy of Art in London – Sir Hugh Casson KCVO, RA, RDI. Povey undertakes public and private commissions for collections in the United States, London, Wales, Belgium & West Indies. Studies symbolism and trains in color with Jan de Maere in Brussels .
1987-91 Studies psychology and narrative in art whilst builds the extensive Childhood, Illusion and Desire Period of paintings. Shows in Belgium, London, New York.
1992-93 Public commission: Hall of Illusion mural: 20 X 40 ft. interior oil painting in the Chamber Concert Hall of the University of Wales. (Interviews with BBC Television, S4C Television; BBC Radio Four and regional and national newspapers). Designs the composition on the island of Grenada, West Indies.
1994-96 Deepens his studies in the relationship between art and the psyche & researches new ways to evolve concepts with models using theatres and elaborate staging and costumes. The BBC follows Povey’s evolution in both his professional and personal lives). Povey continues through the Childhood, Illusion and Desire Period of paintings, and begins The Psychology and Philosophy Period of paintings. Studios: Wales – courtesy of the University of Wales, Florida, West Indies. Shows in London, New York, San Francisco, New Orleans, Beverley Hills, Scottsdale, Miami, Hong Kong, Brussels, Wales, France.
1997-99 Povey is invited to join the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art. Museums in Britain and the USA begin acquiring Povey works. The National Library Museum of Wales acquire three Povey works for the nation. BBC Radio create a Diary Program following Povey on his research for his paintings and sculptures: France, London, and Wales. Povey begins sculpting (public and private) as an extension to his forms in paint. Shows in Singapore, New Orleans, New York, London.
2000-01 Invited to Buckingham Palace to meet with Her Majesty the Queen of England and The Prince of Wales. Continues to integrate the psyche into his art. Shows in Wales, France, San Francisco, New Orleans.
2002-04 Deepens his approach to design, studying and evolving ideas extensively before beginning on canvas, and develops his creative Working Methods Period. By July 2003 Povey enters his Pain Beauty and Memory Period of paintings. Studios: Grenada, West Indies, California, Florida, Wales. Shows in Wales, France, Barcelona, San Francisco, New Orleans, West Palm Beach.
2005 Povey’s Hall of Illusion Mural oil painting is named one of the ten most important university-owned artworks in Britain by The Times Newspaper, London. Studies form in London art museums, continuing his Pain Beauty and Memory Period paintings. Shows in New Orleans, West Palm Beach, Wales.
2006-07 Proposed for a knighthood for his services to the world of art. Knighthood Proposal supported by Ken Owen – playwright; the Chancellor of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; The Artistic Director of the Welsh National Theater; the Head of BBC Wales; the Head of Arts and Culture for BBC Wales; Lady Anglesey. Shows in Wales, West Palm Beach; Virginia Beach Contemporary Art Museum.
2008-10 BBC Television, ITV Television, S4C Television and regional newspapers celebrate Povey’s contribution to art in Britain. Povey enters a period of transition in the visual language employed in his paintings. During this evolution he withdraws from gallery representation, seeking a seclusion which will serve his research. He privately explores through his Emotional Expression Period of paintings. Povey moves to build an isolated studio in the USA.
2011-12 MOMA Wales authors Edward Povey book (discusses Povey’s career, during which he created more than 3500 artworks with subsequent placement into 600 public, corporate and private collections in 16 countries). The BBC and the Public Catalogue Foundation (UK) Partnership published most of Povey’s publicly owned works in their Your Paintings Project which has put the UK’s entire national collection of over 210,000 oil paintings online.
2013-14 Garmon Press (UK) publishes the first five volumes of the Public Catalogue Foundation series Oil Paintings in Public Ownership. (Povey works appear in four of the five initial volumes. More are expected in subsequent volumes). BBC interview with Huw Roberts (former head of BBC Wales) – (An Improper Marriage: Abstraction and Realism, in which Povey discusses his new exploration, employing larger canvases and complex methods of harvesting imagery, abandoning his previous approaches to painting and advancing into a more challenging and also more direct, visceral style. Povey combines realistic forms with pure abstract forms in the same paintings, giving rise to a seamless ‘visual language’: one that opens the door to new and eloquent possibilities in style and meaning, and which is considerably more impactful on live viewers of his paintings. Povey returns to the public art world to publish his ideas, and accepts shows at Art Palm Beach, Atlanta, New Orleans.