Working in a museum and occasionally collecting work for the national collection I realise just how difficult it is to collect a cohesive and such an important group of works and thanks from all of us need to go to Barrie Maskell for such an important collection. I know just how difficult it must have been to assemble this group of works: I have been chasing some of these artists myself for a number of years and haven't managed to get work half as good as some of these works you see here today.
- Nicholas Thornton Head of modern and contemporary art Amguedda Cymru-National Museum Wales Cardiff
Ernest Zobole (1927 - 1999)
Biography
Zobole was educated at Porth Grammar School and after he had completed his army service he entered Cardiff College of Art where he remained until 1953.
During the early 1950s Zobole met the German Expressionist painter Heinz Koppel, then working at the Dowlais Settlement, whose dedicated breaking of pictorial rules prompted him to rethink his work.
Just a few years later both men were to become founder members of the 56 Group.
Zobole’s paintings took on a dream like quality and his subject matter, often depicted through doors and windows, would invariably portray his local environment. His unique style has placed him as one of Wales’ most innovative artists.
Ernest Zobole died on 27 November 1999 and was predeceased by his wife and childhood sweetheart Christina Zobole.
The works of Ernest Zobole can be found in the following collections:-
Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales, Cardiff; Contemporary Art Society for Wales; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Newport Museum and Art Gallery; School of Art Gallery and Museum, Aberystwyth University; Swansea University; University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd; Wrexham County Borough Museum; other public and private collections.
Zobole was educated at Porth Grammar School and after he had completed his army service he entered Cardiff College of Art where he remained until 1953.
During the early 1950s Zobole met the German Expressionist painter Heinz Koppel, then working at the Dowlais Settlement, whose dedicated breaking of pictorial rules prompted him to rethink his work.
Just a few years later both men were to become founder members of the 56 Group.
Zobole’s paintings took on a dream like quality and his subject matter, often depicted through doors and windows, would invariably portray his local environment. His unique style has placed him as one of Wales’ most innovative artists.
Ernest Zobole died on 27 November 1999 and was predeceased by his wife and childhood sweetheart Christina Zobole.
The works of Ernest Zobole can be found in the following collections:-
Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales, Cardiff; Contemporary Art Society for Wales; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Newport Museum and Art Gallery; School of Art Gallery and Museum, Aberystwyth University; Swansea University; University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd; Wrexham County Borough Museum; other public and private collections.
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