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HILARY PAYNTER is one of the UK’s leading wood engravers and Past President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.

Hilary Paynter: The Age of Enlightenment from Wood engraving films on Vimeo.

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CV

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. 


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  • Shop
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  • exhibitions & events
    • Harry Underwood: Outdoor Worship
    • RUTH FRANKLIN: Old and New Dreams
    • Coalescence: SCAD Class of 2022 Senior Exhibition
    • Littles
    • Time Frames: Photography by Jim Alexander and Carlos York >
      • Artist Talk with Jim Alexander and Carlos York
    • Here and Now
    • 3 Southern Artists featuring Harry Underwood
    • 5 ATL Artists Pop Up Show at The WADDI
    • Social Distance Gallery ATL
    • missive - UNG Faculty Show
    • Wood at The Waddi
    • Artist Xie Caomin at Different Trains Gallery 2 at Cornerstone Bank of Decatur
    • Pop-Up Show at 378 featuring The Real Frank Tee and Kim Cresswell
    • Luzene Hill - Now that the Gates of Hell are Closed... >
      • Luzene Hill artist talk
    • Around the Wheel - Color Wheel Teachers Show
    • Best of Atlanta 2019
    • Yehimi Cambrón Pop-Up Show
    • Summer Show 2019
    • Academe of the Oaks Student Exhibition
    • Remembering Marvin Rhodes
    • 378 Clifton Road Pop-Up May 2 2019
    • Ruth Franklin - Only When I Laugh
    • Perspectives: WCAGA Group Exhibit
    • Harry Underwood Red Letter Days >
      • a conversation with artist Harry Underwood
    • The Gallery: Natalie Twigg and Todd Alexander >
      • A Conversation with Natalie Twigg
    • Eben Dunn: Amplification and De-amplification >
      • A Conversation with Atlanta Artists Eben Dunn & Jim Johnson
    • Decaturscapes
    • M.C. Escher +
    • Math + Art
    • Cisco Kid vs Donald Trump >
      • Artist Talk & Tea with Kosmo Vinyl
    • Bank SEE 2.0
    • Through a Glass Darkly
    • Bank SEE
    • Grand Opening and Inaugural Exhibition
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