Ivy Smith :: Contact Info :: Artist Statement :: Previous Exhibitions

Title: Whitlingham Marsh Medium: Woodcut Size (h x w): 60cm x 91cm Guide Price: Not Given
Title: Girl Swimming I Medium: Linocut Size (h x w): 46cm x 65cm Guide Price: Not Given
Title: Whitlingham Marsh – Winter 2004 Medium: Etching Size (h x w): 12cm x 17cm Guide Price: Not Given
Title: Belle Ile – The Beach Medium: Linocut Size (h x w): 38cm x 51cm Guide Price: Not Given
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Artist Statement
I am a figurative painter –printmaker. My principal print method is relief (both lino and woodcut) but I also use etching and lithography.

My prints and paintings relate closely, as I will explore an idea through both media, and I feel that over the years the ways of working have influenced each other quite strongly. My main subjects are people and landscape. A series of twelve watercolours of Whitlingham Marsh led to a large woodcut (my first) and two etchings, and recent work includes large-scale paintings of groups of swimmers, and linocuts of single swimmers. My prints are not the paintings in a different form, but are a new idea tried in a different medium.

Previous Exhibitions

• The Prince’s Drawing School, London
  Drawings for Paintings
• The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk
  Drawings for Paintings
• Kings Lynn Arts Centre, Kings Lynn
  Eastern Open
• Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich
  A Year on the Marsh
• Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury
  Paintings, Drawings and Prints
• School House Gallery, Norfolk
  Paintings and Linocuts
• EXX Projects, London
  Print Show
• National Trust Touring Exhibition
  Hortus Cambrensis
• National Portrait Gallery, London
  10 Years of John Player Portrait Award
• Cartwright Hall, Bradford
  9th International Print Biennale

If you are interested to see current or future exhibitions, please contact the artist using one of the methods above.