Brenda Hartill R E is a British artist and
printmaker based in her studio in East Sussex and in her studio in the
Andalucian mountain village of Gaucin in Southern Spain. Her work
explores the texture, pattern and light of the landscape, and ranges
from finely drawn figurative works to bold, heavily embossed abstract
images. She is most interested in the strong light and shadow of
Southern Europe, as well as remote New Zealand, and London cityscapes.
Her main medium is print, both etching and collagraph, and she has
recently written a book "Collagraph and mixed media printmaking" for A
and C Black.
She is
also interested in collage which has recently led to a new series of
works using encaustic wax in which to embed fragments of print and
natural materials.
She works in water-colour, oils, collage, and
mixed media, as well as etching and collagraph, the limited edition
print techniques for which she is best known. She prints and publishes
all her works from her studio in Udimore in East Sussex. She exhibits
in over 50 galleries world-wide particularly in Britain, Europe,
Australia and New Zealand, and has over 300 prints in her portfolio.
Brenda
Hartill is a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (R E),
showing regularly at the Bankside Gallery, London (next door to the
Tate Modern), and at the New Academy Gallery, Windmill St. She often
shows in the RA Summer Exhibition and the National Print Exhibitions
in London, as well as many mixed shows country-wide. Her work is in
the collections of many large companies, including BP, Bank of
England, Global and BT, and her work is sort after by art
consultancies, interior designers and architects worldwide.