Brian Hanscomb is an artist engraver from St Breward, Cornwall.

Brian Hanscomb
Brian Hanscomb at the Terre Verte gallery Altarnun 2019
Born1944
Occupationartist engraver
SpouseMarried

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

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  • 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

References

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  1. ^ a b "Brian Hanscomb". resurgence.org. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Brian Hanscomb RE". Brook Gallery. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  3. ^ "New York Public Library". gac.culture.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  4. ^ "Science Museum London". Science Museum London. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  5. ^ "Brian HANSCOMB". cornwallartists.org. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
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