Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham used printmaking as an experimental medium throughout her career, sometimes combining drawing, painting and printing in the same work, however in her final decade it became an increasingly important focus for her creativity. She enjoyed a late flourishing of creativity working with Graal Press, between 1998-2004, producing over 60 prints during this period.
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
For Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, printmaking was a liberating experience. From 1991 she produced an astonishing array, toying with colours and forms to create a series of images. The possibility of variations in turn stimulated new ideas. Her later prints were mostly created in collaboration with Carol Robertson and Robert Adam of Graal Press. They offered the artist a range of possibilities through the use of water-based inks. With the artists individual brush marks captured on separate sheets of acetate, these prints are a true embodiment of Barns-Graham’s painting style.
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
This exhibition focuses on Barns-Graham’s late period printmaking. These joyous works showing the full extent of her creativity and exuberance; for her printmaking was a liberating experience where she was able to ‘let rip’ (as she put it).
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Her late paintings, and extensive printmaking with Graal Press (Roslin, near Edinburgh), revealed an artist at the peak of her artistic powers. Important exhibitions of her work at the Tate St Ives in 1999/2000 and 2005 and the publication of the first monograph on her life and work, Lynne Green’s W. Barns-Graham: a studio life confirmed her as one of the key contributors of the St Ives School, and as a significant British modernist.
