Geri Waddington Wood Engravings

A selection of wood engravings, all hand-printed on a Victorian hand press in signed, limited editions by the distinguished printmaker Geri Waddington,

Geri trained in painting at the Slade, and started engraving in 1995. She was elected a member of the Society of Wood Engravers in 2001, and its Chairman in 2014.  She is also a ‘Brother’ of the Art Workers’ Guild.

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Geri's work is in public and private collections world-wide, including the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Georgetown University Library, Washington DC, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, and the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, USA. She is also represented at the Central Academy of fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, where she co-curated the first exhibition of western wood engravings in China.

She writes: "Wood engraving is one the simplest and yet most intense forms of printmaking; an image is produced by engraving into the polished end grain surface of a block of wood (traditionally boxwood), with a variety of tools, which can produce a wide vocabulary of marks. The block is then inked with a roller and printed onto paper, where the cut marks appear as white. The images that result from this process offer clarity and ‘sparkle’ unmatched in other media, the equivalent of “drawing with light”.