receiving his BA in Fine Arts in 1976 he continued working at the same school on a scholarship. He moved to London in 1978 where he enrolled at Saint Martin's School of Art.
In 1980 he moved to France where his work changed radically from three dimensional to two dimensional and he became a painter. Collage and photocopies were the starting point for Pritchard’s new works which debuted in 1986 at the Jon Gerstad Gallery in New York. The following year he returned to France where he dedicated himself to the serious exploration of altered states of consciousness. In Brittany, in 1994, he created a series of electronic sound and image videos. Pritchard arrived in San Miguel de Allende, México, in 2008. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries in San Miguel de Allende, México D. F. and Oaxaca de Juárez. Ceri sees his recent return to his homeland as the completion of a circle, “Returning to Wales has made me very much aware of the cyclic aspect of life. I have always been aware of art as a “spiritual barometer”. “In many ways I feel the same here as I do in Mexico…My inner world is the same. What changes is the feeling of being ‘home’ again and not a stranger in a foreign land.” Ceri Pritchard is the eldest son of Welsh artists Gwilym Prichard and Claudia Williams. “Growing up in an artistic environment with well-known painter parents has given me a sense of the importance of ‘doing’ and ‘working’. The challenge of creativity is always for me rewarded by the element of surprise.” I work to make paintings that change one’s visual perception, that produce wonder and anxiety at the same time.
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