“It’s exciting, it’s terribly exciting, I love it,” she said.
“Colour is the most important thing, certainly in my work as well as in my life.”
She said her career as a painter, printmaker, collage and stained-glass artist and teacher meant she mixed with the “intelligentsia of Swansea”.
As well as Dylan Thomas, who she fondly recalls as a “really naughty boy”, her social circle included composer Dan Jones, poet Vernon Watkins, painter Ceri Richards and sculptor Ranald Cour who she would go on to marry.
This “pretty hectic” social life she enjoyed as an adult could not be further from the experience of her childhood years.
Born in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, in 1924, the then Glenys Carthew was an only child and the daughter of a colliery manager.
Her father’s job meant the family moved around the south Wales valleys seven times in total, living in a series of manager’s houses set apart from the workers.
