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Brought up in Bangor, Brenda Chamberlain studied at the Royal Academy of Art and married fellow student John Petts in 1935. The couple came to live back in North Wales and following contact with the poet Alun Lewis they published poems, woodcut prints and the ‘Caseg Newsletter’. Leaving Petts in 1943, Chamberlain moved to the isolated but inspiring Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island). Winner of the National Eisteddfod Fine Art Gold Medal in 1951 and 1953, she exhibited figure paintings that have a robust simplification and an awareness of contemporary European art. This painting is concerned with metamorphosis – body, sea and rocks are blended. She published poetry including ‘Green Heart’ (1958), ‘Poems with Drawings’ (1969) and a prose account of her life on Bardsey, ‘Tide Race’ (1962).