Uzzell Edwards was born in 1934, in Deri; a coal-mining village in the Rhymney Valley.
[1] He attended Bargoed Grammar School and later took a series of jobs, where he was made redundant but made enough money to be able to move to Paris in 1956, where he could pursue his interest in painting, visiting galleries and museums in the French capital.
[2] He exhibited widely across the UK and internationally including the Inter-Celtic festival at L'Orient, Brittany.
[3][4] In 1996 he was commissioned by the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham to paint any Shakespearean character.
In 1998 he formed Ysbryd – Spirit Wales, exhibiting with other Welsh painters including Brendan Stuart Burns and Martyn Jones.