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Huw Griffiths - Painter
“Born in May 1961, I lived my formative years in the Rhondda and moved aged six to Surrey, where I started my ‘real’ education.
From an early age I felt drawn to ‘serve,’ as the adults I knew had. I joined Cubs, the Army Cadets and later at Sixteen, I joined the Army. I felt part of some thing honourable and my path in life certain! Years of experience, The Cold war in Europe, and Northern Ireland left me broken: in body and mind. Everything I had believed suddenly felt ‘wrong’. So I left, only to then feel ‘lost’ and in need of a new way. A year of deprograming came from many of the “ Alternative” writers and thinkers of the Sixties and I ‘restarted’!
In the early summer of 1986, a chance meeting led me to my first Free Festival, and then the Pilgrimage walk, from London to Stonehenge! These were the first steps to a new life of political actions, Veganism and twenty years on “The Road” as a New Age Traveller. Over those years the growing number of legal festivals were opening possibilities in many expressive arts. Alongside friends I started to create my own walkabout theatre characters. The most successful became
known as ‘The Blue Man’, a blue skinned, green Mohicaned, Borg type Alien. He is blue, not green - peaceful not violent, and - always walks backwards! The costume took elements of various army
uniforms, the ‘Blue Man’s’ - blue skin then exposes him as the opposite of my Army self.
I moved to Wales and settled down, put my children into schools, rented a studio and through the continued help of the Combat Stress team, I reached a stage of wellness that enabled me to complete a Fine Art BA(Hons) at Trinity St David in Carmarthen.
From an early age I felt drawn to ‘serve,’ as the adults I knew had. I joined Cubs, the Army Cadets and later at Sixteen, I joined the Army. I felt part of some thing honourable and my path in life certain! Years of experience, The Cold war in Europe, and Northern Ireland left me broken: in body and mind. Everything I had believed suddenly felt ‘wrong’. So I left, only to then feel ‘lost’ and in need of a new way. A year of deprograming came from many of the “ Alternative” writers and thinkers of the Sixties and I ‘restarted’!
In the early summer of 1986, a chance meeting led me to my first Free Festival, and then the Pilgrimage walk, from London to Stonehenge! These were the first steps to a new life of political actions, Veganism and twenty years on “The Road” as a New Age Traveller. Over those years the growing number of legal festivals were opening possibilities in many expressive arts. Alongside friends I started to create my own walkabout theatre characters. The most successful became
known as ‘The Blue Man’, a blue skinned, green Mohicaned, Borg type Alien. He is blue, not green - peaceful not violent, and - always walks backwards! The costume took elements of various army
uniforms, the ‘Blue Man’s’ - blue skin then exposes him as the opposite of my Army self.
I moved to Wales and settled down, put my children into schools, rented a studio and through the continued help of the Combat Stress team, I reached a stage of wellness that enabled me to complete a Fine Art BA(Hons) at Trinity St David in Carmarthen.
Fri 13 Jun to Wednesday 2 July
King Street Gallery
33 King Street
Carmarthen Carmarthenshire SA31 1BS
Open Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 4.30pm Free
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