A BUCKLEY man’s late wife is remembered with a collection of her artwork on display at Buckley Library.

Joseph Chesters, 72, of Buckley, decided to honour Ursula Jean Chesters with an exhibition of her artwork created throughout her life.

Mr Chesters said: “Just over 15 months ago I lost my wife who was an artist and I felt after a while that I should put on an exhibition of her work in her memory.

“It was a chance for the public to see her work again because it had normally been seen in The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art.”

Mrs Chesters was a member of various local art societies, sat on the committee of the Flintshire Association for the Visual Arts and has had her work exhibited in the Grosvenor Museum in Chester and Theatre Clwyd.

Mr Chesters said that she also had her own kiln and was interested in anything creative.

He added: “She loved anything to do with the arts.

“She loved ceramics, she did enamelling, she did oil painting, drawing and Chinese brush painting.”

It was this love of art that brought Mr Chesters together with his late wife in 1972.

He said: “We came together so naturally. We were both members of the same art society but just as friends.

“I could always talk to Jean and she could always talk to me. It was years after that we did get together.”

Speaking at the exhibition, Mr Chesters said: “If she could walk through the door now she would be proud, but at the same time she’d be a little shy and nervous as well.”

He said that her bright and colourful artworks, ‘Razzamatazz!’ and ‘Through the barrier’ summed up her personality.

He explained: “She loved doing things for fun. If something didn’t have fun in it, it wasn’t worth doing for her.

“She literally loved life. It was a wicked shame to see her going downhill with Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia.

“She went down very quickly and died in Mold Cottage Hospital.

“They were absolutely marvellous with her and I couldn’t say anything against them at all.”

The Memorial Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Drawings by Ursula Jean Chesters is on display at Buckley Library from June 1 to June 30 2018.