Keith Pettit
Keith Pettit is a woodcut artist, sculptor and printmaker inspired by the landscapes and legends of his Sussex home. Ranging from tiny woodcuts to monumental sculpture, his work is a testament to the human relationship to place.
For Keith, wood engraving is a balance of control and instinct, technical discipline and creative intuition. The thread that runs through all of Keith’s work is his deep connection to place, to the land, to history – both the grand and the everyday. One of the defining features of Keith’s engravings is his treatment of light. Fireworks, lens flares, sunbursts – all captured in stark black and white. With his focus on reflected light, his latest works play with it, carving out negative space with an almost cinematic quality. The contrast between shadows and highlights, the way light dances across different textures – these are the things that drive his compositions.
