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the
Sofa Gallery artist for September will be
Barry Woodcock
who will
give a printmaking demonstration on Saturday 6th September
2003. For
the month of September, artist Barry Woodcock will be featured as our
artist of the month. The Over the Sofa Gallery will be filled with
Barry’s exquisitely executed wood engravings. We are particularly happy
to announce that Barry will also be in residence on September 6th
2003, giving a demonstration of his work. This will be an open event,
taking place throughout the afternoon.
Barry
Woodcock is a full-time artist printmaker working from his home in
Brightlingsea. Born in 1945, he went on to study at Ipswich School of Art
from 1960-63. Beginning in 1985, he is a self-taught wood engraver whose
work has been hung in many gallery venues and exhibitions including the
Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition. He is currently preparing his
fourth solo exhibition of engravings which opens in October 2003 at the
Wildwood Gallery, Bury St Edmunds. He is a regular exhibitor with the
Society of Wood Engravers who will be taking a show to the Irma Stern
Gallery in Cape Town in November 2003. What
is wood engraving? In wood engraving the print is made, first, by
engraving the design or picture to be printed into the mirror-smooth
surface of a block of end-grain wood. Boxwood is best. Secondly, the block
is rolled up with ink (on its top surface) and printed onto paper. The
cuts that are made into the wood therefore come out as white; the
remaining top surface which gets inked, as black. For more information please contact Ginny, Sue or Elaine on: 01206 824050 or email: For the Over the Sofa Gallery web page in the Wivenhoe Encyclopedia, click here |
