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Rigby Graham Exhibition Walk-Through

 

 

Join us for a Rigby Graham Exhibition walk-through with Mike Goldmark. The exhibition, the first since the artist's death in 2015, features a combination of watercolours, woodcuts, linocuts, etchings and monotypes that demonstrate his remarkable versatility. Mike chats about Graham's views on making pictures, his working processes and the special way he viewed the landscape and recounts some of the memorable conversations that the two of them shared over the years.

Rigby Graham

'...Irascible painter whose idiosyncratic landscapes are among the 20th century's best.' - The Sunday Times, 2015'There are few people alive who can make their drawn illustrations 'lie down' so comfortably on a page with type - especially when he has designed the whole book himself. He is a real graphics man, and that would nail him down and mark him out, were he not such a good landscape painter and draughtsman, too. - John Piper, 1986'Compared with some of his better-known contemporaries he has ten times as much to say... It is Graham and not Rowland Hilder to whom historians will turn in future years to find out the look of the late twentieth-century landscape.' - Fances Spalding, 2003'He was, above all, a master of line: an assured encompassing line, that quested around and drew what was pertinent, ignoring the irrelevant.' - Andrew Lambirth, 2016
Principally a topographic artist, Rigby Graham was born in Stretford in 1931. He moved to Leicester in his early childhood where he attended Leicester College of Art, specialising in mural painting. After teaching at local schools Graham returned to lecture at the College of Art, firstly in Graphic Design and Printing, then in Education and latterly in Bookbinding. He retired from teaching in 1983.His work is influenced by Neo-Romantics but in his colour he owes much to German Expressionism and he is considered one of the most important landscape painters of the late 20th century. The archive of his work, now at Manchester Metropolitan University, is a central resource for the study of landscape painting, lithographic and wood-cut printing, book illustration and production and private presses. Rigby died in May 2015 after a long illness.

 

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Against The Grain - The Lif...

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Sitia

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Rigby Graham - At the Goldm...

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Brighton Pier

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Corsican Landscape

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