In the Studio
Gunning hand made No.2 Etching Press from Ironbridge
Represented by Lizard Art a Co-operative of 14 artists at The Stable Yard Gallery, Trelowarren Estate on The Lizard Peninsula, TR12 6AF. We have three exhibitions a year Spring, Summer & Autumn. www.lizardartgallery.co.uk
As an Artist & Printmaker living in West Cornwall much of my inspiration is taken from the wild Celtic landscape that I have loved and lived in for most of my life. The coast, the sea, the moors, isolated places attract me where I can study and capture our natural world. I look to shape, form and design from the abundance of nature within the Cornish landscape to capture essence and abstraction.
I am a multi-disciplinary artist who uses etching, photogravure, cyanotype and collagraphs, all original prints from my Gunning Etching Press. Using mixed media and any other form of mark-making that captures the essence of the Cornish coast is part of my practice. I became an Associate of The Royal Photographic Society in 2011 which was the foundation of my life as an artist.
Beginning my photographic addiction with a Box Brownie I progressed through many analogue cameras, I spent many years in my darkroom progressing up to DSLR photography, ultimately achieving my Associateship with the The Royal Photographic Society in 2011. I then became interested in other printmaking art forms learning how to combine my photographic imagery onto Photopolymer etching plates from the South-West’s legendary John Howard Studio. I print these plates individually from my Gunning no.2 etching press from my studio.
I use many forms of printmaking techniques for whatever the subject matter may inspire. I also produce cyanotype prints with my imagery, which originated in the 1840’s being one of the first non-silver technologies used to create photographic cyan blue prints.
Exhibited in London (Royal Albert Hall), Vienna, New Mexico, Bonn, Cologne, Nagoya Japan, Connecticut, Toronto.
