Collection: Laurie Rudling

Laurie Rudling has worked, walked, cycled and run across most parts of Britain, Ireland and France for the last fifty years. In all this time he has drawn and painted, filling many sketchbooks with memories of our beautiful lands.

For almost as long he has been a professional artist, teacher and printmaker. In most purely landscape pieces he employs a range of classic copperplate etching techniques extended to two plates for most images. This enables overlays of subtle colour with delicate tonal bites from the aquatint process. It is a very planned and cerebral approach often leading to balanced, meditative imagery.

Laurie uses more contemporary methods in depicting townscapes and birdlife where collaged printing plates, “collagraphs”, allow multiple viewpoints and serial vision to be assembled in one array.  Collagraph plates are physically much deeper and more richly textured than etched copper plates and hold more ink allowing very painterly effects and variations than most print processes. The making too is more spontaneous and less pre-meditated than the two plate etching process.