A LARGE body of work produced over a lifetime by artist and Holyhead resident Mary Edwards has gone on show.

Now in her 80s, Mary has called her exhibition at the Ucheldre Centre, in Holyhead, a Journey Through Doubtful Frontages 1930s - 2019 .

It contains pieces in pen and ink, watercolour, collage - produced using her own images.

Mary Elizabeth Edwards was born in 1930, the third in a family of five children. Originally from Llandrindod Wells - formerly in Radnorshire, now Powys, she was from third generation farming stock in the area.

She is one of the few remaining people whose father fought in First World War. (He was one of the many thousands of young men who were under the official age, 18, to join up. He went on to become a machine gunner.)

Mary had a grammar-school education (at the then known County School, having passed the scholarship (11-plus) exam.

She obtained a CWB, school certificate (with a distinction in art and later English and art at Higher-level, coming top of the county, as had her older brother and sister.

Radnorshire County Council donated a bursary for her to attend Swansea School of Art and Crafts in 1948.

The Principle of the School and the sculpture tutor were two of Dylan Thomas’s close friends.

Mary's mother had attended Hereford Art School as a child and, on that side of parentage, her Great Grandfather had been a painter in oil of ships under sail at sea.

Mary herself has sold approximately 500 pictures, including prints, over the years in London, Frankfurt-sur-Main, Dublin and Bangor.

Her first commission was the design of a fish-clock, to a high-class fish and chip shop in her home town .

She has had exhibitions of work in White Hart Lane, Barnes, London, Roden-Strasse, Offenbach/Firework Fest, Hereford’s Mayor’s Parlour and had pictures chosen to show with Chelsea Art Club, the Tay Society, and Blackrock Art Gallery, Dublin, where her friends Huw and Mary Chalton, would sell her work not only to Irish patrons but further afield. She always signs her painting with an 'M'.

Ucheldre spokesperson said: "It is really a very interesting, colourful and intriguing exhibition."

Mary's art work is on at the Ucheldre until Sunday, October 13, 2019.