Martin Llewellyn was born in Neath, South Wales in 1963, but only took up painting about 20 years ago. Entirely self taught, he paints landscape of Wales using a palette knife in the tradition of other Welsh painters, especially Kyffin Williams. His favourite subjects are the mountains and coasts, especially Snowdonia, Anglesey and the North Wales coast as well as the Gower peninsula and Pembrokeshire