Ruth Beardsworth: Blue Wood

Ruth Beardsworth: Blue WoodRuth Beardsworth (b 1943) was born in Bremen, Germany where she trained as a screen printer before studying fine art in Britain. She graduated with a BA Fine Art from Preston Polytechnic in 1979 and MA Printmaking, from Manchester Polytechnic in 1980. She has worked at Printmaking at Grays School of Art and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. She was the winner if the Shell Expro Award in 1992 NS RGW Glasgow Print Studio

writing and in this case printmaking John’s line is both eloquent and elegant

much in the way Schultz’s ‘Peanuts’ stories were described as “modest strips full of personal insecurities” his drawn characters rendered simply in order to ask larger questions

‘How can I possibly compete with music and the human voice

Working with Mike

Arthur was right and he encouraged me to continue making woodcuts also to dye the prints to get the result I was aiming for

Bob Batchelor was one of the founding members of Peacock Printmakers

a quarantine and a foundry and accommodation for the workers who built the Forth Rail Bridge under whose shadow it sits

’ ephemeral world

taking the wonderfully collaborative nature of this project a step further

The print is an edition of 20

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