Trevor Price
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Overview
Trevor Price is a renowned artist who specialises in handmade and hand-printed drypoint prints at his studios in London and St. Ives. In 1994, he was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and later served as their Vice President from 2013-2018.
Price's latest series of seascape and woodland prints are created by carving and scraping the plate with a drypoint needle and a dremel. This meticulous process is time-consuming and leaves little room for error. Once the plate is prepared, ink is rolled over its surface and passed through an etching press on damp paper.
Price intends his work to be viewed up close, where the viewer can become lost in the intricate mark-making and abstractions. However, from a distance, the prints take on a highly representational and almost photographic quality,despite being completely handmade and printed by hand.
Price's work can be found in various collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the Guangdong Museum of Art in China, the Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum in China, Yale University in the USA, the Office of Public Works in Dublin, and The Bank of England.
Over the years, Price has received several national printmaking awards, including the Printmaking Today Award at the Royal Society of Painters-Printmakers 2017 exhibition. In 2020, he was commissioned by China's National Academy of Painting to create a large relief print which was exhibited at China's National Art Museum in Beijing.
STUDIO: ST IVES, UK + LONDON, UK
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Works
Trevor Price
Woodland IIIDrypoint etching, relief print35.5 x 35.5 cmEdition of 100Trevor Price specialises in drypoints and etchings that are handmade and hand printed in his studios in London and St. Ives.
Trevor studied at Falmouth and Winchester Schools of Art and at the age of 28 was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and is currently the societies Vice President. Trevor exhibits widely throughout Europe, with regular solo shows of both paintings and original prints. His work is held in various collections including the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), Guangdong Museum of Art (China), Yale University (USA), The Office of Public Works (Dublin), and The Bank of England. Price has won several national printmaking awards, and on a number of occasions been an invited selector for the annual National Printmaking Exhibition held at the Mall Galleries in London. Trevor spends a lot of time in St Ives drawing the surroundings and has taken great influence from preceding artists Ben Nicholson and William Scott who too had a connection to Cornwall. Other artistic influences include Pablo Picasso, Freda Kahlo, and Cecil Collins. For Trevor, it is the opportunity to experiment and the diversity of technique that draws him to a medium. Currently, most of his prints are drypoints of forms, usually on zinc or Perspex, which are made by drawing on the surface with a soldering iron and then printing from those marks made, then carefully pressing a dremel by hand to the paper to create a very distinct 2D relief finish.Trevor Price specialises in drypoints and etchings that are handmade and hand printed in his studios in London and St. Ives.
Trevor studied at Falmouth and Winchester Schools of Art and at the age of 28 was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and is currently the societies Vice President. Trevor exhibits widely throughout Europe, with regular solo shows of both paintings and original prints. His work is held in various collections including the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), Guangdong Museum of Art (China), Yale University (USA), The Office of Public Works (Dublin), and The Bank of England. Price has won several national printmaking awards, and on a number of occasions been an invited selector for the annual National Printmaking Exhibition held at the Mall Galleries in London. Trevor spends a lot of time in St Ives drawing the surroundings and has taken great influence from preceding artists Ben Nicholson and William Scott who too had a connection to Cornwall. Other artistic influences include Pablo Picasso, Freda Kahlo, and Cecil Collins. For Trevor, it is the opportunity to experiment and the diversity of technique that draws him to a medium. Currently, most of his prints are drypoints of forms, usually on zinc or Perspex, which are made by drawing on the surface with a soldering iron and then printing from those marks made, then carefully pressing a dremel by hand to the paper to create a very distinct 2D relief finish.27of 27
