Born in 1932, Brian Perrin studied at the Royal College of Art and won the Rome Scholarship (Prix de Rome) in 1954. He was Head of Printmaking at Wimbledon School of Art from 1964 – 1997. Much of his work is based on landscape and from his many sketches and drawings he makes his etchings. His work is held in many public collections.
Perrin is considerd to belongs to the ‘new wave’ of printmakers whose need for an expert medium is expressed by a considerable output of very high quality. They seem to have discovered the process for themselves, without encouragement from outside and to have undertaken their own experiments from which they have selected the means of working which is best suited to their individual purposes.
Perrin has always preferred to understand landscape in the light of its structure. Rock formation, the contour of the overlying humus, the elemental forces of nature which push hills up out of the ground and wear them away again with wind and rain, make up the character of landscape which Perrin must evoke: mankind has little part of these spaces, even the meandering stone walls and the bastion-like cottages are weathered and tumbled and have reverted to ancient natural forms. . . It is the geology of the district which is under review, not the topography.
Robert Erskine, Print Specialist & Publisher. St. George's Gallery London 1960
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