Brian HANSCOMB
Brian Hanscomb is a printmaker who specialises in copperplate engraving and pastel collage work. In 2010 the ecological magazine 'Resurgence' wrote that 'Brian Hanscomb is known as Britain's leading copperplate engraver'. He is inspired by Zen Buddhism, Quakerism and his immediate locality of Bodmin Moor.
media
Printmaking
works and access
Government Art Collection
Victoria & Albert Museum National Art Library, London
Royal Cornwall Museum & Art Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Science Museum Art Gallery, London
Wessex Collection, Longleat House, Wiltshire
New York Public Library Print Collection
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
John Creasey Museum, Salisbury, Wilts
Hanscomb's engravings can be seen at:
Bankside Gallery, Bankside, London SE , the home of the Royal Society of
Painter-Printmakers
Burton Gallery, Bideford
Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton, Devon
Gallery 49, Falmouth, Cornwall
The Art Stable, Child Okeford, Blandford, Dorset
exhibitions
2019: Rediscovering Fowey Moor, Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun (27 April-21 June)
memberships
Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (Fellow) - 1997