An expert in the work of abstract painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Geoffrey Bertram, will be at the Burton gallery holding a special talk about the artist's life on Saturday, May 6 at 2pm.
Free of charge, and coinciding with the Burton's current Barns-Graham exhibition, A Different Way of Working, the afternoon with Geoffrey Bertram, chairman of the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust, will cover the artist's approach to experimental print-making from her early years as part of the Crypt Group and Penwith Society of Arts up until her collaboration with Carol Robertson of Graal Press in 1998.
Barns-Graham was born in St Andrews, Fife, in 1912, but moved to Cornwall in 1940 to join the group of modernist artists working at Carbis Bay near St Ives.
The Burton at Bideford's exhibition, curated by Ann Gunn of St Andrews University, is titled A Different Way of Working: The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. It brings together creative printmaking techniques Barns-Graham experimented with, such as offset drawing, lino-cutting, etching, lithography and screen-printing.
Although Barns-Graham produced a sizeable body of paintings and drawings in her 67-year career — she died in January 2004 aged 91 — the current exhibition charts her journey as a printmaker. The exhibition will, unusually, take up both gallery spaces at the Burton and include 22 additional prints that have not previously been displayed in this exhibition.
Everyone is welcome to come along to Geoffrey's talk and tour to experience the life and artistic journey of a woman who became a master of printmaking.
The Barns-Graham exhibition is on at the Burton until May 14. The Burton is open 10am to 4pm Monday to Saturday and 11am to 4pm on Sundays.
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Interviews
Geoffrey Bertram, chairman of the Barns-Graham Trust, is available for interviews.
More information about Barns-Graham's work and legacy can be found on the Barns-Graham Trust website.
