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Brenda Chamberlain

Colour archive footage with voice of artist reading one of her poems about the island fishermen and footage of her in her home painting and sketching. Also archive footage of boat arriving / departing off Bardsey Island. Current interview with Jill Pearcy in Aberystwyth National Library discussing the artist's arrival on the island, her very frugal life and her achievement in making her living solely from her art,a feat that was made more difficult by the fact that she was a woman. Colour shot (present day) of examples of the artist's paintings, eg. Self Portrait, and also of her sketches showing her characteristic elongated faces and almond eyes.

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