Gallery
Poole Printmakers
5 Bowling Green Alley
Poole, Dorset, England, BH15 1AG
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If you would like to purchase one of Kath's prints send us an email
Clouds Hill-Wood Engraving- 100 x 75
£60.00 framed - £45.00 unframed
Thrifty Fulmars- Wood engraving- 100 x 150
£90.00 framed - £50.00 unframed
Vat of Kirbisher-Wood engraving- 150 x 100
£90.00 framed - £50.00 unframed
Orkney Geo - Wood engraving - 100 x 150
£90.00 framed - £50.00 unframed
Or Eira - Wood engraving - 90 x 65
£60.00 framed - £45.00 unframed
Hescombe Rocks - Wood engraving - 100 x 150
£90.00 framed - £50.00 unframed
If you are interested in buying one of Kath Littler's prints send us the details and we will put you in contact with Helen
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Kath Littler On completing an Arts Foundation at Cardiff College of Art in 1969, I studied graphic design and illustration at Bristol Polytechnic. When in 1973 I obtained an Art Teacher's Diploma I started a life focussed around teaching, drawing and painting. I had to take on a variety of odd jobs to make this happen such as teaching 80 years olds and waitressing at the House of Commons. I did work as a graphic designer for the OUP for a shortwhile but declined to transfer to Oxford when they made the move from London In 1976 I moved to North Wales and there developped a technique of working with thread stitched over watercolour on calico. Thus I explored texture and depth of colour in a mark making way with thread, balancing this with broad areas of colour wash which provided the structure. I held a number of solo exhibitions in Wales and at the Square Gallery in London and this technique paved the way for the exploration in wood engraving of tone and texture. On moving to Poole in 1992 I taught full time in a primary school and also I found Poole Printmakers which allowed me to return to printmaking again. Then in 2003 on a chance visit to the Bristol City Gallery I saw the annual travelling exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers and this had a big impact on my work. Following on this Peter Reddick, a well known engraver and book illustrator who had been my lecturer 35 years before, offered to teach me the basics. Although I still consider myself to be a learner wood engraving has given me the freedom to explore my interest in the topographical English Landscape tradition and my latest prints explore the expressive potential of line and tone which wood engraving is capable of providing. My subject matter now includes North Dorset where I now live, Poole Harbour, the Orkneys and Brittany, all places where I find the contrasts so stimulating I exhibit regularily with Poole Printmakers and at the Shaftesbury Arts Centre and I have a large mixed exhibtion planned at the Exchange in Sturminster Newton in 2010
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