Siân Thomas grew up in south Wales close to land farmed and mined by generations of her family. Siân had an early love for drawing, and is largely self-taught.

In her work she explores the passage of time through signs of wear in everyday objects. Using watercolour her paintings pause time and carefully scrutinise the ordinary.

  “I seek evidence of human presence in everyday objects: signs of wear, the worn out, the rub of manual use, the rusted, the mouldy or moss covered.

  I treasure the transience and value the changes wrought through time and with use.  I find beauty in the impermanence expressed by nature's gradual reclamation of the man made.

  My hope is to pay close attention to the details that reveal the life of the object, aiming to convey the personality absorbed from its user and to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.”

Recently Siân has been exploring decaying flora as a metaphor for the deterioration of the person due inreasing age, stroke and dementia