VICTORIA GARLAND Printmaker

My name is Victoria Garland and I am a printmaker living in Shaftesbury, North Dorset.

Over the last few years I have concentrated on etching using steel-plates and occasionally copper. Etching offers such a variety of mark-making and textures and I enjoy the many stages of creating the image. The surface of the plate can be worked and put in the etching tray numerous times - this may take many months before I feel the image is complete and ready to edition on my etching press. The final step is to sign and number each print to produce a limited edition of each image. Etching (like all intaglio methods) is an intensive hand-made process and like many printmakers I do not complete printing an entire edition in one session and in my case, this results in variations in the colours of printing ink I use which I think highlights the fact that each image produced is individual.

Some general information about printmaking is on the FAQ page.

OPEN EXHIBITIONS:

• Bath Society of Artists Annual Open Exhibition [2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012, 2005], Victoria Art Gallery, Bath

• Bruton Art Society's 66th Annual Exhibition 2019
  Received the Joy Barnes Award

• Black Swan Arts Open 2017, Frome

• Dorchester Arts Open Exhibition 2017, Dorchester

• Sherborne Art Club's Annual Open Exhibition 2017, Dorset

• New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London,2016

• St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery Annual Open Exhibition 2020, Lymington - Plus every year from 2005-2016
  The Beaulieu Fine Arts Award, the Mary Symons Memorial Award (for Printmaking) twice and, The Clarke Willmott Award for Overall Merit

• The New Forest Open Art Exhibition 2016, Lyndhurst

• 2020 Artcare Annual Open Exhibition, Salisbury Hospital, Runner-up
  2015 Artcare Annual Open Exhibition, Salisbury Hospital, Overall Winner Award

• The National Trust's Mottisfont Annual Open Exhibition, 2013 and 2014

• Arts & Crafts Exhibition, Old School Gallery, St Barbes Museum & Gallery
  April 2013 - the inaugural exhibition

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• Group Exhibition with Andrea Jenkins and John Goodliffe, Shaftesbury Arts Centre
  April, 2019

• "Art Naturally", Shaftesbury Arts Centre
  November, 2018

• Dorset Art Weeks, Shaftesbury Arts Centre
  May/June, 2018

• Artcare Exhibition, Salisbury Hospital
  October, 2016

• Hallgate Galleries, Hexham, Northumberland
  Autumn Exhibition 2016

• Bettles Gallery, Ringwood, Hampshire
  Winter Collection 2016

POETRY COMPETITION - LYMINGTON ARTS FESTIVAL and ST BARBE MUSEUM & GALLERY, 2016
The Poetry Competition prize-winner chose my etching,"Still Life with Tulips" as their inspiration.
To read more: Poetry Prize-Winner