Artwork for Blaze Cyan
The Fonthill Cedar
Croft Castle
Oak at Petworth
The Swan, Surrey
Twilight Lake
The General West
The General East
Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore'
Details
Working within the mediums of drawing, etching, woodcut and wood engraving, my primary subject area is landscape, and my work focuses on the beauty of trees in nature.
I first began working with trees over 15 years ago and knew from the outset that they were a subject that I could never exhaust and would never tire of. They travel with us through life, and any interpretation of them can be as unique and changeable as the weather.
Ecology and the plight of trees is something very close to my heart; it’s not the sole objective of why trees are my subject matter, but one of the reasons I seek to draw attention to them. Their aesthetic beauty and structure both elementary and complex, their simple dignity and yet mighty sense of presence, and the peace they bring to the landscape and the human mind.
The freedom to follow my own path, spend my life doing something I truly love, and as I am self employed to be in control of my own life. Through my work I can draw attention to the things I feel strongly about, primarily the natural world and its innate beauty.
Blaze Cyan: British Landscape Artist.
2021 -Present Wood engraving Tutor (workshops at Moreley College London, City & Guilds of London Art School, Private workshops and tuition.
2018-Present Etching tutor at City and Guilds of London Art School
2015-2023 Etching tutor at Putney School or Art
2014-2017 Print fellowship at City & Guilds of London Art School
EDUCATION
2013-2014 MA Fine Art City & Guilds of London Art School
1989-1992 B.A. (Hons) Fashion Design University of Westminster (Harrow College)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
2021 SWE -Elected Member of the Society of Wood Engravers
2019-2020 RE - Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
2019 RE - Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
2017-2020 RE - Council member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
2017 RE - Elected as an associate member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
2015 The Arborealists - Member & Treasurer
RA Summer Exhibition, 2022, 2023, 2024
'A Landscape of Trees', solo exhibition at Eames Fine Art, London 2023
Exhibit with the Royal Society of painter-Printmakers at Bankside Gallery. (Yearly)
Exhibit with the Society of Wood engravers at several venues around the country. (Yearly)
Exhibit with the 'The Arborealists, venues around the country 2-4 time per year.
Eames Fine Art Gallery, Bermondsey, London SE1
Studer Fine Art, Presteigne, Powys
Bankside Gallery, London SE1 (with the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers)
