Ian phillips

The landscape in all its endless distractions, its textures and colours, its varying light and moods, has been Ian's inspiration for the last thirty years.

The medium Ian started on, and has stayed with over those same thirty years, has been the medium of relief printmaking. First with the crudest of Lino cut collage, then reduction linocuts, followed by multi block woodcut and finally working on the experimental process of Tabi Hanga.

But why printmaking?

"Printmaking is art and craft together, it’s mixing colours and playing with sharp tools, it’s traditional and modern, A processes with technical limitations that somehow allows an boundless

flexibility. Frustrating and fabulous, it gifts you an absorbing task to lose oneself in completely, but it’s a task you’ll never master completely. So there is always more excitement to discover."