Kathleen Littler
Growing up in Pembrokeshire, I always wanted to depict the natural beauty which I saw around me.
After a diploma in Graphic Design/Illustration in 1972 in Bristol Polytechnic, followed by an Art Teachers Diploma, a painting career continued in tandem with teaching.
In 2003 I discovered engraving as a medium for expressing the drama, contrasting light, rhythm and pattern in nature, much of my subject matter deriving from the coast where I was born, and visits to Orkney which resonated with these early impressions. Now it is the Black Mountains where I live, my work being rooted in a sense of place. To engrave is to re-experience the emotion of being there, and to find expression for that. To draw a design forces the hand to select and simplify and create an image which is not an imitation of nature, but an expression about it, a thing of beauty in itself: a valid artistic aim.
Wood engraving, being a strong graphic medium for social comment and the expression of ideas, increasingly provides another important area to engage in.
