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Keith Pettit

K eith's finely executed Boxwood engravings are infused with his passion for the natural world. Drawn to the medium's warmth, distinctiveness and its unique Englishness, he has been practising this rare art for 20 years - Trinity Arts

"I am so lucky to have discovered wood engraving as an art form. I live and work in a small corner of England, a very beautiful classic landscape, "The Weald and the Marsh and the Down countree" as Rudyard Kipling once described it. And to be able to try and capture that beauty in such an organic art form always thrills me. Literally, I could engrave an image onto a fragment of a tree that grew within the very same landscape. To work over the smoothly prepared surface of the wood block, to immerse myself in the wonderful meditation of this miniature world, to hear the the resistance of the wood change as I cut deeper or shallower - as the white lines swell and sweep through the blackness of the uncut block always leaves me with a strong sense of contact with the natural world!"


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