About The Artist
Gordon Allen As an artist, Gordon Allen's work comes from his life experience and, of course, from the love of art and its history. Both etching and painting are opportunities to experience the world, whether man-made or natural, and to study what is there. The artist feels that he has only scratched the surface, literally and figuratively, of what the world offers. Gordon Allen enjoys the challenge of trying to capture some of the world's faces and to share them with others. He likes nothing more than spending all day outside painting, whether in the middle of a vast, alive, marsh or on a stretch of trout or salmon river studying a subtle composition of water, grass, and sky.Etchings offer Gordon Allen the opportunity to work in the studio at a slower, more studied pace, and to create images which can be reproduced in small editions and so shared with more people. His etchings are done on copper, and he carefully and meticulously prints each on on German Etching paper with his own special blend of inks. Gordon Allen has been etching since 1983 and he finds it a fascinating discipline about which there is always much to learn and enjoy. |
