John Duffin

John Duffin is one of the leading printmakers in Britain. His prints and paintings of urban environments capture the dynamism and energy of modern city life, chronicling the narratives of contemporary living. He has won many prizes for his printmaking and painting and his work is in many public and private collections in the UK and abroad.

I work mainly in the medium of etching and spend long hours drawing on the copper plates to create light and shade, working from small pencil drawings I have made whilst out walking in the city streets. I work with line and cross hatching only and print with the blackest ink on the whitest paper I can find. I like the directness of drawing on a plate, it distils my visions of the urban world and allows me to create very direct images with great subtlety and mood. Etching for me is a long and methodical process, purifying my imaginative impressions of the world onto plate and paper.

I draw on the spot in sketchbooks and on small pieces of paper and take these back to the studio where I develop them into powerful images that are a fusion of what I have observed and felt combined with my imagination, creating paintings and prints that are my powerful personal vision of modern city life.

Prices range from: 195 - 215

London from Primrose Hill
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Regent Street Rain
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