Bridie Doyle-Roberts

"A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the tips"

Artwork by Bridie Doyle-Roberts (© 2021)

During 2021, I was disappointed to see that the pandemic had reversed all progress on single-use plastic reduction, as everything had to be take-away and multi-wrapped to avoid contamination. As a result waste was lining the streets in abundance and some community-minded friends took to them to tackle the problem with a pledge to litter pick for 365 days, rain or shine around the Pontypridd area. 

“The Savage Hare” 

(Furniture artwork By Bridie Doyle-Roberts © 2021, Photo credit Gladys Paulus 2012)

This print of a man wearing a Hare mask was gifted to me by felt-artist Gladys Paulus after we collaborated together on the creation of “Ceirw / Savage Hart” (citrus arts.co.uk). 

“Ceirw / Savage Hart” was a theatre production I devised where the performers wore felt Deer masks. The production went on to tour Nationally and was nominated for an award. During the research and development phase I borrowed the Hare for dancers to explore what it felt like to work with Gladys’ masks and so his character and style influenced my production greatly. 

“The Island”

Poetry and Artwork by Bridie Doyle-Roberts (© 2020)

There is an island

That never forgets

With a spell on me 

It finds me in my dreams 

And takes me there 

Over and over 

It's your place

Among the ancestors  

And therefore mine

In the sanctuary 

On the sea 

With danger all around

I try to find you

But time runs out

No other place

Commands such attention 

I see from above 

And below 

And in every heartbeat

And every story

There is an island

That never forgets

With a spell on me 

It finds me in my dreams 

And takes me there 

Over and over

“Hiraethu o Hyd” 

Poetry and Artwork by Bridie Doyle-Roberts (© 2022)

Dyma fy nghŵtsh

Ble meddylia i'n rhydd

Dyma fy nghŵtsh

Lle rwy'n teimlo'n gryf

Dyma fy nghŵtsh

Lle breuddwydio'n braf

Dyma fy nghŵtsh

Atgof chwarae yn yr haf

Dyma fy nghŵtsh

Lle cofio'r byd

Dyma fy nghŵtsh

Hiraethu o hyd

“Where beauty sleeps”

Poetry and Artwork by Bridie Doyle-Roberts (© 2022)



This is where the beauty sleeps

In a glass house of longing

Where the piano is playing

The rhythm of the lost

Souls appear and disappear

With the emotions they bring 

And a mourning of what we held

And folded neatly into our chests

This is where the beauty wakes

In a glass house of memories

Where the piano is playing 

The rhythm of the found 



“Nid oes Drych yma…” 

Artwork by Bridie Doyle-Roberts (© 2022)

"Etifeddu"

Artwork by Bridie Doyle-Roberts (© 2022)

The title "Etifeddu" means to inherit in Welsh. Both the table and the painting were possessions inherited from family members after they had died. Whilst 13 years passed between one gift and another, the same sense of grief and connection was evident. A copy of the painting is on the table top as a recognition of the same sense of loss we feel when someone dies, while the painted legs show the fragmentary and chaotic manifestation of grief.

“Gair yn Gnawd / A word on Flesh” By Bridie Doyle-Roberts (2021)

“A word on Flesh” is part of an exhibition of art-furniture inspired by independent shops on a high street in the South Wales Valleys. There is not a single public bench in the town centre so I created a series of chair exhibitions to provoke conversation and debate about the future of the commerce in this struggling town. This work was created for Fat Cat Tattoo studio.