Brian Hanscomb
English Artist
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Brian Hanscomb is an artist engraver from St Breward, Cornwall.
Born1944 (age 81–82)
OccupationArtist engraver
SpouseMarried
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Brian Hanscomb at the Terre Verte gallery Altarnun 2019 | |
| Born | 1944 (age 81–82) |
| Occupation | Artist engraver |
| Spouse | Married |
Brian Hanscomb was born in 1944 at Croxley Green, Hertfordshire. His work is inspired by Quakerism, Zen Buddhism and Bodmin Moor.[1] He served an apprenticeship in letterpress engraving and also trained as a gravure engraver.[2]
His work is in the Government Art Collection, New York Public Library[3] the Science Museum, London[4] and the National Gallery of Australia. Hanscomb is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.[1]
In 2010 Resurgence magazine described Hanscomb as "Britain's leading copperplate engraver".[5]
Books
- illustrator for Oxley, William, The Mansands Trilogy. Richmond, Surrey: The Keepsake Press, 1988 ISBN 0901924776
- Sun, Sea & Earth Whittington Press, 1989 ISBN 185428004X
- Cornwall; an Interior Vision: copper-engravings & texts Whittington Press, 1992
- The Phoenix: copper-engravings & haiku Whittington Press, 2005
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