April vollmer biography

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Although I consider myself mainly a printmaker, the work in this exhibition is mostly from a period when I painted in oil on shaped wood supports. This was the work that led into my work in Japanese woodblock printmaking.

The supports were cut with a saber saw, and hung directly on the wall, where the printing blocks are carved in shallow relief and the shapes printed on paper. Birds being banded or tracked by radio, bats using echolocation or owls grabbing a tasty rat for dinner, the subject matter is consistent through all my work.

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It is a look at human beings’ equivocal relation with nature, measuring, testing, looking for patterns.

I use images of flowers, insects and other bits of nature in all my work, but fundamentally it is about finding order.

This leads me to include human structures alongside natural forms, since I understand these to arise from the same impulse. In the etching “Counterfeit” I include moths with eye-spots alongside a Greek ey