Joint exhibition by
OKSANA SVETS
MEL WILMOTT
Venue: Martha’s Gallery at Theatr Gwaun
Dates: From 21st July to 1st September 2026
OKSANA SVETS
Oksana is a free hand copy artist. Her paintings reflect her passion for nature and wildlife. She said that painting gives her a sense of achievement, freedom and so much pleasure.
Oksana was born in August 1972 in Uzbekistan during the era of the USSR. She spent her childhood in Krivoy Rog in Ukraine. She graduated from the university of Kiev with a degree in Economics and Planning.
She started painting when her two children were small and her passion for painting grew from there. In 2022, when war broke out she moved to Pembrokeshire, however, her elder son had to stay in Ukraine. Her younger son lives in Pembrokeshire and is studying at college.
She has found their new country to be welcoming and hospitable. She has bought paints and canvasses to carry on painting and it has become a passionate hobby. She hopes that you enjoy her exhibition. Blanche is her point of contact. She has several paintings in the exhibition, all of which are for sale.
MEL WILMOTT
Mel was born and brought up in Lower Town Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. As a child she saw adventure, mystery and beauty in everything and everywhere, whether it was Fishguard Quay with its colourful fishing cottages all in a row or the battered weather worn trawlers that leant on the quay wall at low tide waiting for the tide to turn …she was truly inspired.
Growing up in such a beautiful part of Wales she tries to reflect the landscapes and views in her paintings and drawings, the rugged ancient burial mounds and mountains that inspire legends, coastal beaches and waters and ink blotched skies with light that changes minute by minute. It is because of this diverse landscape that the only problem she has encountered in painting Pembrokeshire is what to chose to paint first. She says that she always feels like a child in a sweetie shop for the first time bombarded with the most amazing sights, smells, sounds and myriad of jewelled colours that she sees and still appreciates every day.
In addition to the exhibition at Theatr Gwaun Mel is a member of North Pembrokeshire Open Studios… See their website at www.npopenstudios.co.uk for details of programme for August 16th to September 6th 2026.
