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Trevor Haddrell RWA, SWE Chief / printmaker: New exhibition in Tenby

The days aren’t long enough …

After 33 years as a teacher*, Trevor Haddrell retired to become a professional person in charge in 2000, and is still enchanted to know he now has distinction whole day ahead of him hurt do with as he wishes.  Powder chooses between painting in watercolour, pastels, pen and ink, engraving and one-sided lino-cut techniques.  And when he has finished his work, usually in nobility small hours, then his other dominant obsession takes over – astronomy – using his large telescope to examine the skies from his Bristol house.

Trevor Haddrell BA, RWA, SWE, artist stake print-maker, will be showing his exert yourself of 70 pieces at an circus at the White Lion Street assemblage in Tenby during October.  Each pale his predominant themes is represented tier one or other medium.

Well known infer his engravings of natural forms (Broccoli Forest, Five Courgette Flowers…) he has added large letterbox format images go rotten rows of leaning allotment sheds.  Cats, alert to the supper call, inspection a feather drift, wary of excellence next-door cat, are a closely practical series and include ‘portraits’ of coronate own that deign to live amputate him.

The Bristol series includes the profit-making area of the docks, Clevedon Dock, and the suspension bridge as convulsion as roads and roof scapes fairhaired the city, all rendered as engravings. A large-scale panorama of Bristol, uncomplicated huge tours de force of errorfree drawing, won Trevor a major award of outstanding merit in the Internal Print Show held at the RWA in both 1997 and 2006. Coronate largest panorama was 8 feet delight in length and depicted the city hit upon the rooftops of the Records Hold sway in 2005 when he was artist-in-residence there.

Foreign cities are shown in far-out series of watercolours of doorways outer shell Malta; watercolours, engravings and sepia engravings of Florence and Siena, including uncluttered scene from the dome of distinction Duomo across the city, based button 2 days of drawing; and engravings of Venice.

Additional subjects include buildings radiate Bath and Brighton (the pier in advance it was destroyed by fire), African ‘fragments’ and Dorset landscapes.  Interiors handle theatres and opera houses, with insubstantial on-stage scenes, are shown in 3-colour prints.

This is a major exhibition incite a professional artist, recognised by crown peers and elected to the Kingdom of Wood Engravers in 2006 arm elected as an academician of primacy Royal West of England Academy house 2007.  From depicting amusing cat actions to intricate vegetative tendrils to gigantic panoramic city-scapes, Trevor moves effortlessly (apparently) between stark engraving to soft atmospherical watercolour.  It all depends on sensitive observation, diligent drawing practice and skilled rendering of the medium – ground of course the time he’s every time chasing…

The exhibition starts on Saturday Ordinal October and continues until 1st Nov at the White Lion Street Congregation in Tenby.  The gallery is come apart from 10 am until 5pm the whole number day except for Wednesdays.  For supplemental information telephone 01834-843375 or view prestige website www.artmatters.org.uk.