“Nothing is new. The same stories persist. We are human and fallible. We love, need, lie and deceive.
Susanna and the Elders is a subject visited by many artists over the centuries. I have known her since I began looking at art, since I was a child. My Swsana is a Welsh beauty and she is an innocent.
The story is as old as mankind but it is also painfully contemporary and can take many forms. It is a story that reveals the worst in us, that which is tragic and destructive. It is a story also of the triumph of truth over lie.”
“Does dim byd yn newydd. Mae’r un storïau yn goroesi. Rydym ni’n fodau dynol ac yn ffaeladwy. Yn caru, angen, dweud celwydd a thwyllo.
Mae pwnc Swsana a’r Heneiddion wedi ei drin gan nifer o artistiaid dros y canrifoedd. Rwy’n ymwybodol ohoni ers i fi ddechrau edrych ar gelf, ers yn blentyn. Cymraes hardd yw fy Swsana i ac mae hi’n ddiniwed.
Mae’r stori mor hen â dynolryw ond mae hefyd yn boenus gyfoes ac yn cymryd nifer o ffurfiau. Mae’n stori sydd yn amlygu’r gwaethaf ynom ni, yr hyn sydd yn drasig a dinistriol. Mae hefyd yn stori am fuddugoliaeth gwirionedd dros gelwydd.”
Keith Bayliss
This website was created in response to the exhibition Swsana and the Elders & Shrine, which took place at Oriel Q Narberth, Wales in 2016