Artworks

Trevor Price RE (elected ARE 1994, RE 2000)

Breakers

woodcut, edition of 100

£160 unframed

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Trevor Price is based in St. Ives in Cornwall, and his studio is just a few minutes’ walk from the sea. Inevitably therefore the ocean is the primary influence for his artworks. He has had over 50 solo shows during his career, and his artworks are held in many significant collections including the V&A and the National Gallery of China. He has been a member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers since 1994 and their Vice President between 2013-18. In 2025 he received the Print award at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.

He specialises in large-scale woodcuts and finely detailed dry point and engraved relief prints. This particular work is a woodcut, carved and printed from a 1-inch oak plywood block. In Trevor’s wider practice woodblocks and polycarbonate sheets are carved, scratched and engraved using chisels, blades and power tools. The surfaces are then rolled with ink and printed onto paper through a large etching press. It can easily take over two months of platemaking with the larger works before the first proof print is taken. There is little room for error and the first proof can be an anxious moment.