Artizan Studio Residency - Ian Cox

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As part of the Torbay Venue Grants, printmaker Ian Cox will be hosted at Artizan Gallery in their basement space for Devon Open Studios 2021.

The Torbay Venue Grants awarded nine 50% fee awards to artists opening their own studios across the English Riviera, and one full fee award with hosting for an individual artist unable to open their own venue. Ian Cox will be setting up a functioning temporary studio space at Artizan's Lucius Street Gallery as they welcome audiences to this years event.

Here you'll be able to meet Ian, explore his work, and find out more about printmaking and his process.

'For the most part, my limited-edition relief lino prints, created from my photography, drawing and 'accidental' mark-making, are inspired by my love for, and experience of, the wilder parts of the Devon and Cornwall landscape.

In particular, I am inspired by: landscapes with secrets man-made marks made long ago, that have managed to survive into our time the way landscape is sometimes more ceremonial than it is wholly natural the curious multi-track behaviour of time my sense of space despite my inability to perceive it in its true state the way my memories masquerade as a true narrative, rather than an almost-wholly imagined one the often-serendipitous relationship between coincidence and forgetfulness minor, rather than major chords - especially when they can be seen, rather than heard 
My background is in client-led commercial illustration and design. which may be why I find the idea of commissioning my own work both exhilarating, and occasionally challenging.’

For more information visit https://www.art-hub.co.uk/ex/dosgrant21

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