Blaze Cyan
Artwork for Blaze Cyan
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How would you describe the work you do and why?
My work focuses on the aesthetic beauty of trees in nature, my fascination with their complex structures and with the great sense of presence and meaning they embody within the landscape and human history. Interpreting them through drawing, etching, painting and wood engraving, I return to them again and again, with the enduring sense that their richness can never be exhausted. Landscape ecology has always mattered to me, and my work is a way of paying attention; of inviting others to see what I see. Trees shape the landscape, but they also synthesize into us, settling the mind and reconnecting us with something older and more tranquil.
For you what does being an artist mean?:
Being an artist for me is following my primary passion in life, it's not just what I do, but who I am.
Describe what you call yourself/your practice?:
Artist Printmaker; etching & wood engraving Painter: oils Drawings: Charcoal & conte
Your practice & activities include e.g workshops, teaching:
2018-Present Etching Tutor City & Guilds London Art School, London, SE11
2015-2023 Etching Tutor Putney School of Art, Putney, London SW15
2022 Wood Engraving Tutor Morley College, London, SE1
Wood engraving workshops - periodically from my studio in Knighton
CV & Education, relevant & leading to your artistic practice:
2013-2014 MA Fine Art City & Guilds of London Art School
1989-1992 BA (Hons) Fashion Design University of Westminster (Harrow College)
Exhibitions in the last 3 years:
2026 RBSA Print Exhibition RBSA Gallery, Birmingham
2026 The Arborealists The Minories, Colchester, Essex
2026 Staverton Woods (Arborealists) Gallery East, Woodbridge, Suffolk
2025 Trees & Forests Old Bell Gallery, Montgomery, Powys
2025 Ironbridge Print Exhibition Ironbridge Fine Art Gallery, Coalbrookedale, Shropshire
2025 The Quietness Of Feeling Portsmouth Gallery & Museum
2025 The Arborealists - 40 works Gallery by the Lakes, Dorset
2024 Ancient Trees / Arborealists Nature in Art Gallery, Gloucester
2024 Forests Woods & Groves Batsford Gallery, London
2024-5 Wood Engravers Network US Touring Bi-annual Exhibition USA
2024 RA Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London
2023 In the Shadow of Trees Eames Fine Art, Bermondsey, London SE1
2023 Tree of Life / Arborealists Ace Arts, Somerton
2023 Living with Trees St Mary’s, Barnes, London SW13
2023 RA Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London
2023 RE Originals Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2023 Paradise Found- Blackdown Hills Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
2023 The World in the Palm of Your Hand Heilongjiang Museum of Printmaking, China
Your gallery outlets/stockists:
Eames Fine Art Gallery, Bermondsey, London.
Studer Fine Art, Presteigne, Herefordshire.
Royal Society of painter-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London
Society of Wood Engravers www.societyofwoodengravers.co.uk
Direct sales: www.blazecyan.com blaze@blazecyan.com