Linda Nevill's etchings, collagraphs and monoprints

Education
BA Hons Printmaking, University of Wolverhampton
Post Graduate Certificate of Education, University of Wolverhampton
MA Hons History of Art, University of Edinburgh

Selected Short Courses
2007 New Grounds Printworkshop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Studying photopolymer gravure with Regina Held
2003 Non-toxic Intaglio Printmaking with Keith Howard, Dumfries, Scotland
2004 Monoprinting using Rostow and Jung's non-toxic Akua Inks with Susan Rostow, New York, USA

Organisations
Co-founder and Chair of Image Text Image (Wolverhampton Writers and Artists Group)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Image Text Image (6), Eagle Works, Wolverhampton
2008 'Made in New Mexico', City of Wolverhampton College
2007 Image Text Image (5), Gateway Arts Centre, Shrewsbury
2006 Gone to Ground, The Grange, Rottingdean, East Sussex
2006 Image Text Image (4), Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton
2005 Large Scale Prints at the Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd, Presteigne
2005 Image Text Image (3), Eagle Works Gallery, Wolverhampton
2005 Printers Inc., Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham
2005 Image Text Image (2), Harbourne Gallery, Birmingham
2004 20 x 20 Lewis Taylor Gallery, Wolverhampton
2004 Harbourne Gallery, Birmingham
2004 Lewis Taylor Gallery, Wolverhampton
2004 20 x 20 The Framers Gallery, Wolverhampton
2004 Image Text Image (1), Eagle Works Gallery, Wolverhampton
2004 'Soul of All Things Ended', Bywaters, London.
2004 Harbourne Gallery, Birmingham
2003 Lewis Taylor Gallery, Wolverhampton
2002 Warstones Gallery, Birmingham
2002 RSBA, Birmingham
2002 The Warehouse Cafe, Birmingham
2001 Bessant Gallery, University of Wolverhampton
2001 Keele University
2001 Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
2000 Birmingham Arts Fest
2000 Cox's Yard Gallery, Stratford

Work held in the New Grounds Printworkshop Collection, Albuquerque

Employment
Currently employed as an Art and Design lecturer in further education.

For sample images see www.lindanevill.com

Artist/printmaker Linda Nevill producing non-toxic intaglio etchings, collagraphs and monoprints. Akua water-based inks. Current work focuses on atmospheric seascapes produced using Akua Kolor water-based inks. Has degrees from the universities of Edinburgh and Wolverhampton, has also taken courses with Keith Howard. I am an artist based in the West Midlands, England. As a printmaker I specialise in unique, original prints and limited, hand printed editions. These are made using traditional and innovative processes such as etching, monoprinting and lino printing. Although I work with a range of themes, I continually return to images and memories of the sea. I was born, and lived for many years, in the seaside town of Brighton. As a small child I enjoyed sitting on the pebbles with my bucket and spade waiting for the tide to go out and the sand to be revealed. I turned the pebbles over in my hands, listened to and smelled the sea. It was a mass of sensations that has made a lasting impact on me. My work is concerned with moods and emotions, often evoked through colour and texture. These are linked mainly to natural forms, such as rock, sand and pebbles, often situated at the coast. Producing work for a calendar and exhibition entitled 'Soul of Things Ended' for the recycling company Bywaters helped me to focus on some of my ideas about re-cycling and care for the environment. I enjoyed making a soft ground etching of ferns and plants with hand drawn marks suggesting rock strata and combined it with collaged shapes of bottles and cans made from re-cycled papers. These commonly discarded items of litter could easily re-cycled and the countryside preserved. I also produced monoprints including one with a Haiku on the theme of Re-cycling. My experience of visiting Death Valley in the USA made me very much aware of the importance of water in extreme heat. The beautiful, warm oranges, pinks and reds of the desert seemed at odds with the deadly climate. A wall side thermometer at a ranch showed 100 degrees Fahrenheit at 10 am and made clear the importance of shade and water. I was born in Brighton on the South Coast of England. I had a happy childhood and I spent many hours sitting on the pebbled beach watching the gulls and waves. We measured the tide by its position on the pier which floated or even disappeared on misty days. I loved the Brighton Pavilion with its oriental domes and I combined them with fairy tales and stories I created. My earliest memory is of standing with my father and looking into a field and watching a donkey roll over and over. Straight hair was a problem and it had to be cut, curled or tied back. I shifted position and wriggled and struggled and my paintbrush fringe was chopped shorter and shorter. Saturday morning ballet lessons led to wearing a tutu and dancing on stage. Sundays we often played Snakes and Ladders or Ludo. The games were intense and hours passed quickly. Afterwoods, I would search the garden for snakes. Once I found a grass snake on the front doorstep, sliding into the doll's bed. I knew that animals lurked everywhere, especially in the dark. At night, I reported all sightings of elephants, snakes, lions and tigers to my parents who brought me a glass of water and told me to sleep. Fact and fantasy, reality and imagination melted together in dreams. The street I first lived in, the local 'Pepper Box' building and images of myself as a baby all combine to make a screenprint over printed with cyanotypes (blueprints). My digital images of memories of my childhood link to the beach and sea and Brighton Pavilion but also to the fantasy animals watching me through my bedroom window I also remember the games I played, the ballet lessons I had, the agony of having my hair cut.