- Venue
- The Smithfield Gallery
- Starts
- Monday, November 24, 2008
- Ends
- Friday, November 28, 2008
- Address
- 16 West Smithfield, London EC1A 9HY
- Location
- London
Monmouth based artist, Richard Corbett, will be showcasing a new series of woodcuts alongside his oil paintings at his inaugural London solo exhibition, ‘Wetland Reflections’, this November. The exhibition at The Smithfield Gallery, has come about through an association with the RSPB and their work at the Newport Wetlands Reserve in South Wales. After leaving college, teaching full time brought a gap in his production, but in 2002 he started making collagraphs at Ipswich college. These were soon followed by his Dust series of 2004, his first monoprints on canvas, made in response to the novels of Philip Pullman. They caused a stir at the Peter Pears Gallery in Aldeburgh. They now hang in Birmingham. These were soon followed by his extensive and large-scale Cleddon series of 2005. More recent work has included his monochromatic Slate Prints, the texture of the slate perfectly depicting the Welsh landscape. ‘Catching the Light’, returns to a method Richard hasn’t used for over 15 years, using woodcutting tools on plywood. www.richardcorbett.biz
