34 Church Street
Hampton Lucy
Warks
CV35 8BE
Date & Place of Birth: 8th November 1940 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Professional Qualifications:
Diploma in Fine Arts (2-1) Hons 1978-1980; Diploma in Printmaking (Distinction) 1984-1986
1985 Set up own Printmaking Studio and formed the Fosseway Printmakers consortium with 3 other Printmakers.
1987 Emigrated to Australia returning in 1999.
1998 Interest in production of stained glass
Exhibitions:
1980, 1985, 1986 Mid-Warwickshire College 1980, 1981, 1985 Royal Academy of Arts 1979, 1983, 1984, 1985 Herbert Art Gallery 1986 Birmingham University 1983, 1984, 1986 Leamington Spa Art Gallery 1986 Warwick University 1985 Spa Centre, Leamington Spa 1986 Pheonix Art Gallery 1984 Bruhl 1986 Save the Children Exhibition 1989 – 1999 Australian Craftworks, Sydney 2001, 2002 Bridge House, Warwick 2002 Warwick Museum 2002,2003,2004,2005 Stratford Art Society 2002 Birmingham Art Museum
Activities: Was taken on by Australian Craftworks as a working artist providing regular supply of print editions for display and sale in retail outlets in the City of Sydney. Much of my work was purchased by overseas visitors and has thus finished up in both commercial and domestic sites throughout the world.
Artist’s Statement
In 1987 the family emigrated to Sydney, Australia where I found that Intaglio printmaking was not a popular medium. Each city in Australia has its own personality and Sydney has excellent craft artists in fabrics and woodcraft. In order to set up my studio, I had to travel to Melbourne where the main printmaking artists reside. Everything that I required for the studio had to be ordered from Melbourne and transported to Sydney. Eventually the studio was equipped and I was ready to start working.
After 12 months in Sydney, I was fortunate to be introduced to the Managing Director of Australian Craftworks whose main Gallery is in the major tourist area known as The Rocks. He offered me a one-person exhibition to launch my career in Australia. It was extremely successful and for the next 12 years my work was continuously on display. Regular clients of the gallery include people procuring on behalf of the State and Federal government offices and for visiting dignitaries.
In the environment of a new country, I tried to incorporate the delicacy and softness of the English nature with the harsher and more vivid light of my new country. My work is still concerned with the nature of life around me but I found new subject matter in the indigenous wildlife. I also found an interest in the history of Australia even though, by our standards, quite a recent one. Unfortunately, in the 1970s, there was a policy of destroying the original Victorian buildings and replacing these with characterless modern artifacts. I preferred to record the character of the Victorian houses that now are more likely to be preserved.
Now resident once more in England I have the exciting prospect of another phase in my artistic life.
Since 1998 I have developed a secondary interest in stained glass both in the design and production of windows, door panels, lamps and mosaic pictures; the latter from the offcuts resulting from the former. In 2003 I was asked to design a commemorative window for the Methodist Church in Trunch, Norfolk. The mosaic pictures I have done are ideal for hanging in conservatories and the like because they do not fade in the sunlight.
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