Carboniferous Collision: Josef Herman's Epiphany in Ystradgynlais

2006

An account of Expressionist painter Josef Herman's life from his birth in Poland in 1911 to his formative years in Ystradgynlais during the 1940s-50s. Here he met his 'epiphany' in an encounter with Welsh miners coming off shift. Silhouetted against the evening sunset they provided him with a form he was to make his own. In the process he contributed hugely to 20th century Welsh art.