greenwich printmakers

Greenwich Printmakers Gallery starts 2009 with the featured artist exhibition of Mychael Barratt.

Mychael was born in Toronto, Canada but thinks of himself as a Londoner since arriving for what was meant to be a two week stay twenty years ago. He has that immigrant’s zeal for his adopted home and includes local settings that have a personal resonance in much of his work. He is a narrative artist and anecdotal incidents from his day-to-day life which he gathers like a magpie are at the heart of his paintings and prints.

Mychael was recently commissioned to write a book on intaglio printmaking for the publishers A & C Black and decided to try out
all of the techniques that he wrote about. His print O for a muse of fire based on the work of William Shakespeare is the culmination of those experiments as he has created a 26 plate etching which includes every intaglio technique from drypoint and engraving to mezzotint and aquatint.

You can see his prints at the gallery from the 6th to the 18th of January.