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Denis Charles Baxter RBA FRSA RWA

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Cannington Viaduct

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Denis Charles Baxter RBA FRSA RWA
Etching & Aquatint
45 x 33 cm
£260
Related exhibition:
The Royal Society of British Artists | Annual Exhibition 2022

Celebrating the End of Lockdown

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Denis Charles Baxter RBA FRSA RWA
Lino Cut
48 x 40 cm (60 x 50 cm framed)
£240
Related exhibition:
The Royal Society of British Artists | Annual Exhibition 2022

Durdle Door

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Denis Charles Baxter RBA FRSA RWA
Collage
37 x 40 cm
£950
Related exhibition:
The Royal Society of British Artists | Annual Exhibition 2022

Old Harry Rocks, Dorset

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Denis Charles Baxter RBA FRSA RWA
Collage
66 x 47 cm
£2,450
Related exhibition:
The Royal Society of British Artists | Annual Exhibition 2022

The Abandoned Quarry at Abereiddy

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Denis Charles Baxter RBA FRSA RWA
Collage
53 x 53 cm
£2,150
Related exhibition:
The Royal Society of British Artists | Annual Exhibition 2022

Defiance

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Denis Charles Baxter RBA FRSA RWA
Wood
107 x 21 x 17 cm
£3,650
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2021

King of the Bins (edition of 25, 25 available)

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Denis Charles Baxter RBA FRSA RWA
Etching with aquatint
26 x 23 cm (34 x 33 cm framed)
£295
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2021

Sentinel

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Denis Charles Baxter RBA FRSA RWA
Wood
41 x 52 x 28 cm
£1,850
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2021
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About Denis Charles Baxter RBA FRSA RWA

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Artist details

Artist's Statement

Through my etchings I try to evoke the atmosphere and feel of subject matter such as abandoned railway architectural structures e.g. viaducts or disused farm buildings. My still life subjects reflect the same interest I have in the play between light and shadows on objects, the interplay between negative and positive shapes.

Method of Working

I work from drawings produced on site in pen and ink and I take photographs in difficult locations. The composition and size of the image is thoroughly worked out before transferring the image to an etching plate, although I often add or remove items to the image on the plate as it develops.

Etching involves preparing a ground on the plate and having the drawing on tracing paper placed on the ground with carbon paper to help transfer the image, tracing the line next with an etching needle and exposing the copper which is ready to be placed in dilute acid (the longer the plate is in the acid the stronger the line). Following on from line etching, the next stage is aquatinting the plate in order to achieve tonal variations, timing is critical at this stage of creating the image, I record the time used for each stage of the process. The etching goes through several proofs before I am finally satisfied to create a small limited edition.

Because so much time is involved in creating an etching, I only work on one at a time.

Biographical Details

1936 Born on 1 March, Southsea, Hampshire

1965-68 Stockwell College of Further Education, Bromley, Kent

1969-75 Bournemouth and Poole College of Art

1970 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Artists

1975 Set up own studio for printmaking with the emphasis on etching

1981 Elected a Fellow of the Printmakers Council

1987 Elected a Member of the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Printmakers

1989-2001 President of the National Society

1996- Engaged by the National Trust to hold painting and drawing workshops in stately homes

2002 Elected an Academician of the Royal West of England Academy

2002 Elected a Member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art

2003 Elected a Member of the Royal Society of British Artists

Society Memberships

Royal Society of British Artists

Other Society Memberships

Fellow of the Royal Society of Artists, Royal West of England Academy

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

‘The Art Newspaper Award’, Discerning Eye

‘Gold Medal for Graphic Art’, 2nd Biennale Internazional dell Art Contemporanea

‘Gold Medal for Graphic Art’, presented by the Spanish Embassy, Kyoto international Exchange Exhibition

Exhibitions

Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2019
Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2018

Other exhibitions

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

‘ING Discerning Eye’, Mall Galleries, London

‘Originals’, Mall Galleries, London

Anglo-German Exchange Exhibition, England-Landau (organiser)

‘First EuroArt’, touring UK (organiser)

‘Mini-Print International’, Barcelona, Spain

‘2nd Biennale Internazionale Dell Arte Contemporanea’, Florence, Itlay

Kyoto National Exchange, Japan‘World Festival of Art on Paper’, Kranj

Publications

Article on etching in ‘The Artist’ magazine

Two articles for the Kranj exhibition catalogue. One about the use of paper in art and other about Art Societies in England.

Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1

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