Mark A Pearce

Mark A Pearce, Sunlight Through Trees, Limited Edition Print, Affordable Art

2020

DAVIES, Peter (b.1953) ‘Solstice Sun’ 2019 Linocut on paper 15.0 x 10.0 cm (6 x 4 in.) Artists Statement Since starting to paint in 1981 my mainly plein aire landscapes have used a mechanical, rather than lyrical or painterly, approach. This probably puts my observational paint – by – numbers pictures at a creative and expressive disadvantage. But it doers prove conducive to a structural or compositional kind of drawing over which are applied layers of oil paint to deliver idiosyncratic textural and atmospheric effects. Furthermore, a Ben Nicholson – inspired dichotomy between foreground rooftops or architecture and a naturalistic marine or landscape background makes a chosen plastic and temperamental approach apt. So when in 2004 I was inspired by the much loved master relief printmaker John Liddell 1925-2005) to try my hand at linocut I found a process ideally suited to my mechanical bent it has been a love affair ever since. The workshop he founded in 1991 Poole Printmakers is a safe haven, an intimate co-operative near Poole Quay, and some of the most scenic terrain in Britain. It is also an area where my art career started in 1978 and inspired my early book Art in Poole and Dorset, published by Poole Historical Trust, 1987. Many blissful and absorbing hours over the last 13 years have yielded a large body of linocut prints in which I exercise those mechanical and reproductive qualities proper to the medium. Peter Davies...

DAVIES, Peter (b.1953) ‘Sandy Harbour’ 2008 Linocut 3/8 30.0 x 30.0 cm Artists Statement Since starting to paint in 1981 my mainly plein aire landscapes have used a mechanical...

DAVIES, Peter (b.1953) ‘The Godrevy Window’ 2010 Linocut 3/8 20.5 x 30.5 cm Artists Statement Since starting to paint in 1981 my mainly plein aire landscapes have used a mechan...

DAVIES, Peter (b.1953) Guernsey Fort 2010 Linocut 17/30 15.0 x 10.5cm Artists Statement Since starting to paint in 1981 my mainly plein aire landscapes have used a mechanical, ra...

DAVIES, Peter (b.1953) ‘Pen-Olva Pool’ 2008 Linocut A/P 30.5 x 20.5 cm Artists Statement Since starting to paint in 1981 my mainly plein aire landscapes have used a mechanical...

DAVIES, Peter (b.1953) Tregenna Roofs (St. Ives) 2011 Linocut 4/6 26.0 x 34.0 cm Artists Statement Since starting to paint in 1981 my mainly plein aire landscapes have used ...

Flower barrel. 1984. Paper, linocut, 20x34 cm imprint size 9x25 cm total page size 20x34cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illu...

Kids of solstice. 1984. Paper, linocut, 20x34 cm imprint size 9x25 cm total page size 20x34cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fict...

Midsummer wreath. 1984. Paper, linocut, 20x34 cm imprint size 9x26 cm total page size 20x34cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fict...

Going in battle. 1982. Paper, linocut, 25x34 cm imprint size 13x25,5 cm total page size 25x34cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fi...