Yorkshire based artist and printmaker Brian Hindmarch is known for his depictions of Yorkshire and Scotland’s outstanding landscapes.
Having initially trained as a ‘Graphic Designer with a printing company in Northamptonshire, Brian also studied part-time at Northampton School of Art and Leicester Polytechnic. After his apprenticeship, Brian returned to full-time education at North East London Polytechnic studying print, typography, film and photography and then progressed to a Post Graduate course in ‘Advanced Printmaking’ at Saint Martin’s School of Art.
On completion of his masters course Brian worked as a Graphic Designer with ‘Time-Out’ magazine and as a Print Technician at North East London Polytechnic, University of Wales, Aberystwyth and Senior Technician at Nottingham Trent Polytechnic. Brian’s teaching career began at Bournville College of Art and then later at Limerick College of Art as a Graphic Design tutor. In the 1990’s Brian started working at Bradford School of Art teaching Graphic Design and Printmaking.
Brian is very busy with ‘free-lance’ activities, group and solo exhibitions, for example the Royal Academy Summer Show, National Original Print exhibition and extensive involvement with photographic projects and printmaking in Scotland. His book Colonsay-Elements of an Island was published in 2003 to much critical acclaim. Exhibiting prints of Lower Wharfedale; teaching at Bradford School of Art and delivering a range of courses to creatives employed by international greeting card company Hallmark Cards.
He then lectured part-time in Bradford School of Art and Leeds University of the Arts, eventually focussing on his own development as a professional artist.
Now working in the Dales, currently living in Ingleton. He has a studio and also he teaches in print workshops.
This is based in the ‘i’ centre and also exhibits as a member of the Lunesdale Artists and North Yorkshire Open Studios.
He works primarily from the landscape, in the Hebrides, the south of France (exhibiting in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, near Nice – 2017) and locally in Yorkshire, exhibiting and taking commissions for landscape prints.
In 2021 he was selected for the heats of Sky Landscape Artist of the Year.
A new exhibition of artworks with the theme of ‘Winter’ to be shown in the Reginald Farrer Room, Old Sawmill Café, Clapham, North Yorkshire in November 2024. He works with many print techniques and processes such as: etching, drypoint, screenprint, relief and monoprint. In addition there are paintings and drawings in Watercolour and Oil Pastel.
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