Awake Through Years

Awake Through Years: Four Southwest Wood Engravers

Event Date: 
25/01/2014 - 10:00am to 23/03/2014 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

Land and seascapes; antiquities and historic buildings; composite topographical townscapes; and monumental figures and book illustrations from four contemporary South West wood engravers: Harry Brockway, Hilary Paynter, Pam Pebworth and Howard Phipps.

Wood engraving is a simple relief printing process using close-grained woods such as cherry but principally box. Chosen to display quite different aspects of the medium’s capabilities, their work continues a 200-year tradition developed in its modern form by Thomas Bewick. His small jewel-like vignettes of genre scenes are not only...