Cherrill Everley

Sadly, Cherrill passed away on the 17th August 2016 after a short illness. She was only 67. Her family are keeping open this site in tribute to her memory and her work. The following is in her own words:

I work in a wide variety of styles, ranging from traditional life studies to modern and post modern abstracts. Although I have often adopted realism in order to produce landscapes, portraits and life studies, my more recent work tends toward abstracts and semi abstract work, with the beauty of the local area influencing much of my painting. I have lived and worked in the Swansea area for most of my life and many of my paintings reflect the city's rich industrial past.


I am very interested in finding positive and negative shapes in the natural elements and depicting them in an abstract style. My work has also been influenced by my love of music and I have always thought of music in terms of colour, for instance hot jazz and cool blues inducing riots of colour in my mind.

I studied art in Swansea.

My work has been selected several times for the Glyn Vivian Art Gallery Open in Swansea and, more recently, the Penarth Open.

Amongst the exhibitions that have shown my work are those in: Waterstones in Swansea, the Grand Theatre in Swansea, the Mumbles in Swansea, the Central Library in Swansea, the Hype Web-Site based in London, Woman in Art in Barry, Women in Art in Cardiff and Longdale in Mansfield.