Annabelle Oppenheimer
Artwork for Annabelle Oppenheimer
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How would you describe the work you do and why?
It all starts with drawing and working in sketchbooks, some of which become a basis for developing a print. I draw inspiration from the landscape, pathways featuring quite often. I enjoy using layers and utilising more than one plate, for example collagraph with drypoint. I am beginning to work more with monoprint, using colour and texture, applying the ink in layers in different ways. I never tire of experimenting and then there is always the anticipation and excitement when a print is revealed.
For you what does being an artist mean?:
It is an essential part of my life. Making, drawing and generally being creative.
Describe what you call yourself/your practice?:
Artist printmaker
Your practice & activities include e.g workshops, teaching:
Printmaking, making collages, working in sketchbooks.
CV & Education, relevant & leading to your artistic practice:
Maidstone College of Art 1968-69; Chelsea School of Art 1969-72. Worked as graphic designer at Shenval Press 1972-3.
Goldsmiths College, London 1973-4, taught art in London, Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Herefordshire, retiring from teaching in 2011.
Hereford College of Art 1991-4
Exhibitions in the last 3 years:
h.Art 2024 own venue, h.Art prize exhibition Old mayors Parlour 2025, Ironbridge Fine Arts Printmaking competition exhibition October-November 2025, Sixteen Gallery Cheltenham 'Prints Not Dead' December 2025
Your gallery outlets/stockists:
Oxenham Art, Leominster and Oxenham Gallery, Hereford; Mi-Frame Gallery, The Old Railway, The Hop Pocket; Studio 4, The Fold, Bransford