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Inspiration from Artists week 39 Featuring Artists : Sybil Andrew and Anthony Green
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Welcome to Week 39 of Inspiration from Artists this weeks two featuring artists are : Sybil Andrew and Anthony Green.
Jenny will start with the introduction to Sybil Andrew.
On Wednesday I will introduce the artwork of Anthony Green .
If you have any names to include on the list please let me know no rush as we still have enough for a while . Have a good week and enjoy the artwork.
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Sybil Andrews (1898 - 1992) was an English artist who specialised in printmaking and is best known for her modernist linocuts.
She was apprenticed as a welder constructing aeroplanes during WWI during which time she took a correspondence course in art and after the war taught art at the Portland House School. There she met the artist Cyril Power who first became a mentor figure and then her working partner for almost 20 years. They shared a studio in Hammersmith, adopting similar printmaking techniques, and became swept up in Britain’s linocut craze of the 1920s and 1930s under the tutelage of Claude Flight at the Grosvenor House School of Modern Art in London. She absorbed Flight’s enthusiasm for linocutting, sharing his fascination with motion and made it her life’s work. The subjects of her pieces were often influenced by her experience in the workforce.
Linocutting was a technique prized for its simple tools and materials - she used ordinary household linoleum and gouges made from umbrella spikes. The softness of the linoleum prevented cutting fine lines, resulting in bold shapes. Flight encouraged his students to use colour and she used up to five colour blocks to create each print.
After spending WWII welding ships she moved to British Columbia in Canada and it was here that she finally achieved widespread acclaim and recognition after her work was rediscovered by the art world in the 1970s and 1980s. (By 1945 the work of the Grosvenor House School of artists had lost its appeal and for almost four decades the linocuts of Sybil Andrews and her contemporaries had been virtually forgotten.)
Most of the prints below were produced in the 1930s and measure on average 10” x 12”.
Speedway
Tillers of the Soil
Hauling
Water Jump
In Full Cry
Day’s End
Tillers of the Soil
Hauling
Water Jump
In Full Cry
Day’s End
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by Jenny Harris
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One of those artists whose work I've seen but couldn't put a name to. Entirely agree with Sylvia about these linocuts - I did a few at school: fun to do them, but obviously - none of us at school could have done these: I could do without the fox-hunting ones, but that's a moral objection not an aesthetic one. A good long life for a remarkable woman.
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Very impressive. The 'Tillers' is a wonderful composition -- I too think I've seen it before in some context -- with great complementary colour choices, as is The Mowers. It seems to me that there is something for everyone in these linocuts whether our interests are mainly representational, or otherwise. Certainly I've picked up an idea for an ongoing project... Thanks Jenny for introducing this artist.
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I agree, they are very impressive with a great sense of movement. Interesting that most of us seem to remember Lino cut in school as I do, but I wonder if it is done there now? I imagine that ‘elf n safety’ may have had something to say, I remember it being a bit destructive on the finger tips, or was that just me?!
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Anthony Green RA, 1932- 2003 was a English realist painter and printmaker who is best known for the paintings of his own middle class domestic life. He sometimes uses compound perspectives and polygonal form particularly with large irregular shaped canvases. A artist I became aware of just recently whist researching , I haven’t form a opinion of his work as yet I’ve found it interesting and unusual but it didn’t have a impact on me from the start. I’m looking forward to seeing what you all make of it . 
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by Paul (Dixie) Dean