Glenys Cour, talks to Peter Wakelin about her life as a painter, illustrator and stained-glass designer. Widely admired for her transcendent colour and poetic imagery, she was awarded an MBE for services to art in Wales in the 2020 Birthday Honours. At the age of 96 she still works in her studio every day.

Glenys was born in Fishguard and grew up in the Rhymney valley. During the Second World War she studied at Cardiff College of Art with Ceri Richards. She moved to Swansea in 1947, where she met and married the sculptor Ronald Cour and they began a lively salon of artists, poets and musicians. In 2017, in her eighth decade of exhibiting, she was given a major retrospective at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery.