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Ernest Zobole was born in Ystrad, Rhondda, Wales, on 25 April 1927. He is a painter and printmaker, best known for his semi-abstract landscapes of the South Wales Valleys. He studied at the Cardiff College of Art from 1945 to 1949, and then at the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1949 to 1951. Zobole has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, including at the Royal Academy, the Royal West of England Academy, the Royal Cambrian Academy, and the Royal Society of British Artists. He has also been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Gold Medal of the Royal Cambrian Academy in 1988, and the Gold Medal of the Royal West of England Academy in 1989. Zobole's work is held in many public and private collections, including the National Museum of Wales, the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the British Council. As of 2021, Ernest Zobole's net worth is estimated to be approximately $1 million.

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Age 72 years old
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Born 25 April 1927
Birthday 25 April
Birthplace Ystrad, Rhondda, Wales
Date of death 27 November 1999 - Ystrad, Rhondda, Wales Ystrad, Rhondda, Wales
Died Place Ystrad, Rhondda, Wales
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1963

From 1963 to 1984 he became a painting lecturer at Newport Art School. In 1996, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales, Swansea. Although Zobole lived and worked in a number of places in Wales, he spent most of his life in Ystrad, where he died in 1999.

1961

The National Museum of Wales holds ten pieces of work by Zobole, including People and Ystrad Rhondda (1961) and Some Trees and Snow (1978).

1960

Initially Zobole painted as he had been taught at college, but by 1960 he started to experiment with his own style. He originally painted oil on canvas, but he then switched to oil on board and started to use a monochrome colours. He began using impasto, mainly applied with a palette knife. His period of work during the mid-1960s are now regarded as the most daring phase of his career. Zobole was influenced during the 1960s by expressionist refugee artists such as Heinz Koppel, who had a studio in Dowlais.

1953

After leaving Cardiff College, he undertook his service for the British Army, being posted to Palestine and Egypt. On his return from military service he returned to the Rhondda and married his childhood sweetheart, Christina Baker. With little opportunities to find work as an artist, Zobole took up an art teaching post in Llangefni in Anglesey, a position he held from 1953 to 1958. He found this period difficult, he found the flat landscapes dull and uninspiring and described the island as "all wind and chapel". Zobole also felt apart from the community, a mixture of his inability to speak the Welsh language; which was not a factor in the mainly English speaking Rhondda, and a sense of homesickness. He returned to South Wales in 1957, taking up a post at a Church in Wales school in Aberdare, located in the Cynon Valley a neighbouring valley to the Rhondda. Within two years he found employment teaching within the Rhondda, at Treorchy County Secondary School.

1927

Ernest Zobole (25 April 1927 – 27 November 1999) was a Welsh painter and art teacher. Zobole's paintings, originally oil on canvas, later switching to oil on board, reflected the industrial setting of the Rhondda Valleys. A member of the Rhondda Group, a circle of artists from the area, Zobole is seen as one of Wales' "most important artists...one of the visionary artists of Wales".

Zobole was born in the village of Ystrad, Rhondda, in 1927, to Italian immigrants who had moved to Wales in 1910. He was educated at Porth Grammar School, before spending five years training at the Cardiff College of Art. His time at Cardiff College was notable for the daily commute from the Valleys to Cardiff, as it was used as an opportunity for Zobole and five fellow students to discuss and critique their art work. Although the six artists never set up a school or published a manifesto, they became known as the Rhondda Group and were an important movement in South Wales art.