HILARY PAYNTER is one of the UK’s leading wood engravers and Past President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
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President, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers: 2006-2011
Chairman, Society of Wood Engravers: 1999-2006
Monograph, Full Circle, with 600+ engravings, published in 2010 (call or email for more info)
Born in 1943, Dunfermline
NDD Portsmouth College of Art: Sculpture and Wood Engraving. MA and MSC in Psychology.
Parallel careers in wood engraving and Special Needs education of 30 years.
Fulltime artist since 2000.
Revived the then moribund Society of Wood Engravers in early 1980s.
Selected Collections:
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Durham City Art Gallery
Hereford City Art Gallery
University of London
University of Northumbria
Interviewed by BBC for Women's Hour and Kaleidoscope
Filmed by BBC for Off the Wall and We are (not) Amused (about cartoons of royalty)
Major public commissions in Newcastle: Central Station Metro and The Media Exchange
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Bankside Gallery, London
Hereford City Art Gallery
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Durham City Art Gallery
Burton Art Gallery, Bideford
Dundee Printmakers
Edinburgh Printmakers
Thirsk: 20th Century Gallery, London
Art Matters, Tenby
Aberystwyth
Northern Print, Newcastle
"Breaking Boundaries", London
The Age of Enlightenment, Devon Guild
Illustrated Books:
Fragments from the Satyricon by Petronius
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
three books for Gwasg Gregynog: The Romantics in Wales, The Texture of the Universe and Castles and Princes
In Memory of Water by Simon Armitage
Artist's Statement
I always have more ideas than I can use and these range widely to include socio-political comment and landscape. I normally work directly onto end-grain wood with rudimentary drawings from ideas that I have been refining mentally and this allows development of the engraving on the block.
There is alway an urgency in my work because of my commitments to the SWE and RE and I have developed rapid engraving techniques. Generally, I have several blocks in progress at any time and move between them. I enjoy the occasional constraints of working to a commission. I listen to Radio 4 or stories on cassette/CD while I work.
Chairman, Society of Wood Engravers: 1999-2006
Monograph, Full Circle, with 600+ engravings, published in 2010 (call or email for more info)
Born in 1943, Dunfermline
NDD Portsmouth College of Art: Sculpture and Wood Engraving. MA and MSC in Psychology.
Parallel careers in wood engraving and Special Needs education of 30 years.
Fulltime artist since 2000.
Revived the then moribund Society of Wood Engravers in early 1980s.
Selected Collections:
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Durham City Art Gallery
Hereford City Art Gallery
University of London
University of Northumbria
Interviewed by BBC for Women's Hour and Kaleidoscope
Filmed by BBC for Off the Wall and We are (not) Amused (about cartoons of royalty)
Major public commissions in Newcastle: Central Station Metro and The Media Exchange
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Bankside Gallery, London
Hereford City Art Gallery
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Durham City Art Gallery
Burton Art Gallery, Bideford
Dundee Printmakers
Edinburgh Printmakers
Thirsk: 20th Century Gallery, London
Art Matters, Tenby
Aberystwyth
Northern Print, Newcastle
"Breaking Boundaries", London
The Age of Enlightenment, Devon Guild
Illustrated Books:
Fragments from the Satyricon by Petronius
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
three books for Gwasg Gregynog: The Romantics in Wales, The Texture of the Universe and Castles and Princes
In Memory of Water by Simon Armitage
Artist's Statement
I always have more ideas than I can use and these range widely to include socio-political comment and landscape. I normally work directly onto end-grain wood with rudimentary drawings from ideas that I have been refining mentally and this allows development of the engraving on the block.
There is alway an urgency in my work because of my commitments to the SWE and RE and I have developed rapid engraving techniques. Generally, I have several blocks in progress at any time and move between them. I enjoy the occasional constraints of working to a commission. I listen to Radio 4 or stories on cassette/CD while I work.
