Wood Engraving Wednesday
SARAH VAN NIEKERK
English artist Sarah Van Niekerk (1934 - 2018) was an award-winning Illustrator and wood engraver, a member of the Society of Wood Engravers (SWE), and the Society's chair, 1995-1998. This print, Rams, was printed from the original block in 2020 Vision: Nineteen Wood Engravers, One Collector, and the Artists Who Inspired Them, printed in 2020 by Patrick Randle’s Nomad Letterpress at the Whittington Press in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in an edition of 340 copies for the 100th anniversary of the Society of Wood Engravers. Unfortunately, Van Niekerk died during the planning of the book and her daughter Jess wrote the text for mother's entry and helped select the block to be printed.
Sarah Van Niekerk attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts (1951-1954) where she studied with wood engraver and sculptor Gertrude Hermes who greatly influenced her work. She continued her education at the Slade School (1955-1956) and much later taught wood engraving at the Royal Academy of Art (1976-1986) and the City and Guilds Art School (1979-1998), and for many years was a tutor at West Dean College. Besides being a member of SWE, she was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and a Royal West of England Academician.
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you know Monster High is doing alternative fashion well when you open an Instagram doll leak's comments and they're all "ewwww it's so ugly and clashing" like yeah? and? some of y'all need to go out and witness transgender faggotry because u are tooooo fucking boring
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Imagine when they start teaching about Covid in history in school.
"Hey dad, what happened during the Coronavirus pandemic?"
"I can't remember, son. I don't have 2020 vision."
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Marvel Comics has revealed Sean Galloway’s variant cover for Avengers Inc. #1, which re-imagines Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in the style of a Saturday-morning cartoon. Avengers Inc. launches Sept. 13 from writer Al Ewing and artist Leonard Kirk. That said, in Marvel’s official announcement, Galloway’s “Saturday Morning” variant cover for issue #1 is solicited for Nov. 29 (it’s unclear if this is an error). At any rate, the colorful variant depicts a slew of iconic Marvel heroes: Vision, Scarlet Witch, Black Panther, Ms. Marvel, Falcon, Thor, and Iron Man.
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When we get Lestat POV in this series, I truly do not believe this show is above using the Fleabag looking/talking into the camera device. Like when he’s really trying to get his point across to whoever he’s telling the story to or defending himself against past tellings of the story. And the bitch of it all is he’s so cunty I would let him get away with it🙄
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Wood Engraving Wednesday
HOWARD PHIPPS
This wood engraving of Eggardon Hill in Dorset, England by British artist Howard Phipps (b. 1954) was produced in 2019 for the publication 2020 Vision: Nineteen Wood Engravers, One Collector, and the Artists Who Inspired Them, printed in 2020 by Patrick Randle’s Nomad Letterpress at the Whittington Press in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in an edition of 340 copies for the 100th anniversary of the Society of Wood Engravers. In the book, Phipps identifies Edgar Degas, John Nash, and Eric Ravilious as strong influences. Phipps himself started off as a painter in the 1970s, making only occasional prints. His development as an engraver coincided with the revival of the Society of Wood Engravers in the 1980s. About this print, he writes:
I was interested in the ancient signs of humanity apparent in this landscape, and I like to use light to reveal the underlying sculpture of the striking hill forms, where chalk trackways draw the eye into or around deep combes.
Phipps was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales and was raised in Cheltenham, England. He studied Fine Art at Gloucestershire College of Art in the early 1970s and taught in Plymouth for a while before settling in Salisbury in 1980. He was elected Royal West of England Academy (RWA) Academician in 1979 and a member of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1985.
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