Pip Carpenter

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About me

My work is about colour, in landscape both locally or in sunny climes, the essence of flowers in a vase or garden, or glimses of colour in the darkness of a cathedral, creating settings which only exist in the imagination.

I begin working directly from the subject using drawing and watercolour to get down my first impressions. The finished work either remains as a pure drawing or painting or I make it into an original print by various methods including monoprint, drypoint and collagraph.

Having had a long and successful career as a lecturer, I am now a full time practising artist and live in Hastings, where I have more time to develop my work and can experiment with different techniques and media, concentrating on producing unique prints and paintings rather than vast editions of the same image.

Whilst based in London, I was involved with setting up the Half Moon Group and Southbank Printmakers and have been a member of Greenwich Printmakers for many years, specialising in different forms of printmaking.
All the prints I make are limited editions, each print finished individually and hand coloured. The final working is the most critical, each piece dictating its own unique finish.