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Dyfrig Peris is a local born artist from Penygroes who studied Fine Art in Cheltenham University after completing his Art Foundation in Bangor, he has recently started a screen-printing company based in Nantlle and will be collaborating with local artists to create limited edition screen prints.

His work is influenced by Japanese animation and comic style storytelling and has done a series of drawings where imaginary landscapes are populated by amorphous characters. This is one of the reasons I selected him as my artist of choice, as my work involves creating complex landscapes dealing with perspective, space and depth, be it with ink on paper or with paint. Also I believe it to be beneficial to our group that we get as many local artists involved, as they’ll have extra desire and determination in making this a success.

Dyfrig Peris is Iestyn Owen’s choice for the christmas bocs nadolig exhibition.

Poked Studio is Jonathan Ball, an illustrator and graphic designer living in South Wales, “inspired by lo-brow art forms such as cartoons, retro video games, urban art and cute monsters, creating fantasy worlds and characters.”

When I first discovered Poked Studio’s work they instantly made me smile, and in the case of his “murdered fruit” they made me laugh out loud. His cute, quirky and sometimes macabre illustrations appealed to my visual senses as well as my sense of fun and I began to notice his work in all sorts of places. Poked Studio has an impressive list of clients including the BBC, MTV, Sony Playstation and the National Library of Wales. His work also features as the desktop wallpaper on another bocs member’s computer.

Discovering that he was Welsh and a native of Cardiff was a pleasant surprise. I believe that Poked Studio is a prime example of high-calibre Welsh art with true international appeal.

Poked Studio is Sally Kwong’s choice for the christmas bocs nadolig exhibition.

From the Wilds of Eastern Tennessee and nurtured in the Big Easy, comes Simeon Coxe the Third. An innovator of Electronic Music and avant garde performance art . His two releases on the Kapp label under the guise of Silver Apples utilized a maelstrom of home made electronic gadgetry, was heralded by the New York Post as “Simple weird magic. It’s pop from outer space”. Yet his influence in the shaping of electronic and Techno forms of music are unquestionable. Not to mention the musical output being a prime example of Performance art and Pop music effortlessly merging together.

Although it may be the Velvet Underground or Elephant Memory that were given the task of entertaining New York’s creative elite in the Factory, Simeon collabortaed with the purveyor of Pop Art in his hey day. So much so Andy Warhol made a print of Simeon, that adorned the cover of one of his later releases.

Simeon Coxe a creative force of inovation via limitation

Simeon Coxe is Rhys Lloyd Jones’ choice for the christmas bocs nadolig exhibition

Well, just got back from the gruelling trek down to Cardiff to pick up some pieces for the christmas bocs nadolig exhibition from two of the bocs choice artists, Robert Pepperell and Poked Studio. Surely there should be an easier way to get from North Wales down to South Wales?

Anyway, whilst I was in the Cardiff School of Art and Design, looking for Robert Pepperell, I had a good nosy and peeked into the studios, it looks like they do some interesting stuff down there. The pick-up there was relatively quick, even if there was a hairy moment in the lift.

After a spot of sushi, we went round to Poked Studio and picked up two of his pieces, the cloud’s revenge and March of Progress. Whilst I was there, I got to have a nice chat with Jon, met his partner and asked lots of questions about his work and how to work as a graphic artist/illustrator.

It was unfortunate that whilst I was trying to show Jon some of the photos from Dan Ponting (one of the artists we’ve had in the past) when the broken image on Dan’s website came up, just as his partner walked in. She must have thought I was showing him some strange stuff.

I’m really thankful that they gave me so much time… I hope I didn’t get in the way too much.

Robert Pepperell is Meirion Alan Ginsberg’s choice and
Poked Studio is Sally Kwong’s choice for the christmas bocs nadolig exhibition.

Elgan and me were in sixth form together, he was a year younger than me, but I always found his work interesting. When I was in my final year in Manchester he started studying there, so I’m interested to see how his work has evolved since being there.

Update: Elgan has written to us with more details describing his work, there are also some photos.

Elgan Jones is Huw Erddyn’s choice for the christmas bocs nadolig exhibition.