#gerry baptist

[abeeart]

Gerry Baptist used a variation of medias, such as acrylic paints, charcoal, lino print, screen print and collage. The pieces I am more interested in are his lino prints, because I hope to make intricate lino prints this week!

My most favored pieces of Baptist's include his 'Seven Deadly Sins' pieces. They were created using a wood block, similar to lino. This is why the prints are circular, I think this makes his prints more admirable. 

[harrisimpressit]

Impressit's Artist Spotlight: Gerry Baptist

Baptist exhibits The Seven Deadly Sins woodcut prints in the exhibition. Taking the Biblical story of Salome as a starting point, Baptist makes comparisons with reality TV, which gives participants who crave celebrity the opportunity to achieve their aims. This form of popular culture invokes both horror and maybe envy, yet has become compulsive viewing for large audiences.

  Baptist was born in Lahore in 1935, of British and Portuguese parents and was educated in India and England. He studied painting and graphics at Walthamstow School of Art and the London College of Printing and was awarded the National Diploma in Design. Before painting and printmaking full time he worked as an art director in advertising in the UK and Germany. He is a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 2008. He has exhibited widely in the UK and is in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, the Bank of England and Guildford Borough Council. He is currently based in Guildford.

  www.gerrybaptist.co.uk