ANNE DESMET RA
One of only six wood engravers ever elected to the Royal Academy, Anne Desmet creates highly detailed works that evoke a sense of timelessness or of the passage of time - or both ideas simultaneously.
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Anne Desmet RA
ANNE DESMET RA
Anne Desmet specializes in wood engraving, linocut, lithography & mixed-media collage. Her subject matter pulls in two directions: one is essentially topographical yet subject to metamorphoses, while the other is concerned with intuitive architectural fantasies, urban myths & histories of urban destruction & regeneration such as the biblical Tower of Babel. Desmet aims to suggest the timeless solidity & ideas of human aspiration, humour, hubris & folly that architectural forms can convey, as well as their impermanence & vulnerability.
Desmet was born in Liverpool in 1964 and went on to study at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford and London’s Central School of Art and Design.
She was awarded a scholarship at the British School at Rome in 1989, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and was editor of Printmaking Today from 1998-2013. She is an experienced printmaking tutor in many British print workshops and art colleges.
Anne Desmet RA - How to make a wood engraving
