Hilary Paynter - 1974 Wood Engraving "Tia"

Description

Hilary Paynter - Original 1974 Wood Engraving. A charming wood engraving by this leading contemporary artist in the medium. Signed and dated lower right, inscribed 20/50 lower left.
Hilary Paynter is the one of the UK’s leading wood engravers and past president of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. Her work is included in many national collections. In fine condition

Size

Size: 10.9 x 8.3cm (4.3" x 3.3")
Sheet: 15 x 11cm (5.9" x 4.3")

Collection Information

Born 1943, Dunfermline. Hilary Paynter studied sculpture and wood engraving at Portsmouth College of Art. She combined a career as a teacher in comprehensive schools and special education and later as a Chartered Educational Psychologist, with intense and prolific wood engraving. She is now a full-time artist. Instrumental in the revival of the Society of Wood Engravers in the early 1980s, Hilary was its lynchpin for over three decades, initially as Honorary Secretary, later as Chairman, and continues to organise the annual, touring exhibition. Recent projects for the Society include the design and realisation of the highly successful Millennium Ark, on which 26 wood engravers collaborated. Hilary Paynter’s work is represented in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge) and the Victoria & Albert Museum. It is also in city galleries including Birmingham, Hereford and Portsmouth; and in the universities of London and Northumbria.