Year:
2020
Dimensions:
52,3 x 9 cm
Technique:
Wood engraving
Anne Desmet RA is from Liverpool, UK. She has BFA and MA Fine Art degrees from Oxford University, a Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking from Central School of Art, London, and in 2018 was elected Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford University, for ‘distinction in the world of art’. Over 40 awards include a Rome Scholarship in Printmaking; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, USA; and Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, Montreal, Canada. She has works in public collections worldwide. Forty solo shows include three museum retrospectives in the UK and Moscow. Desmet has written five books on printmaking and dra Read more...lude three museum retrospectives in the UK and Moscow. Desmet has written five books on printmaking and drawing and was editor of Printmaking Today magazine (1998-2013). Commissions include engravings for the British Museum; National Gallery and British Library. She is only the third wood engraver ever elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in its 251-year history. She lives and works in London.
