24 August - 11 September 2022
Austin Cole is a Welsh artist-printmaker born in Pembrokeshire. He studied Fine Art at the Sir John Cass School of Art, also called the Metropolitan University, and also at the City Lit, the Slade School of Fine Art and at Morely College in London. His work has been included in numerous shows and galleries in the UK including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Discerning Eye, the Courtauld Institute, the Bankside Gallery and at the Royal College of Art.
Austin was elected member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 2011, and a member of the Society of Graphic Fine Arts in 2014. In 2021 he was elected Associate Member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, the Royal Cambrian Art Society and Chelsea Art Society. His principle subjects are the urban landscape of London and the coastal landscape of Pembrokeshire. He believes that although he works in a very traditional medium he has the eye of an artist working very much in the present.
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Pembrokeshire
'Pembrokeshire is where I was born and brought up; even though I have lived in London 42 years- twice as long as in Wales- it is still the country that calls me back. I view myself a landscape artist and it was Pembrokeshire and Wales that made that possible. Even when I do a cityscape etching for me it is a landscape with valleys and hills. Every time I go back to Wales I am out walking and soaking in the landscape, especially the coastal paths of Pembrokeshire. Taking inspiration from the sea, the light and the landscape itself. Pembrokeshire was always viewed as the land at the end in of the world and it still to me has the other world feel to it. This is also reflected in the local myths and legends. To me the landscape reflects the presence of all those who came before me. The hunters of the woolly mammoth, the Neolithic farmers, the Romans, Celtic saints the Vikings and countless others who have passed through. Yet despite this the landscape always seems to be unchanging.'
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Austin ColeUntitled (South Pembrokeshire)Drawing£700.00 -
Austin ColeNr St Davids - North PembrokeshireDrawing£700.00
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Austin ColeStackpole - South PembrokeshireDrawing£500.00
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Austin ColeStackpole Study 2Drawing£700.00
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Austin ColeSt Annes HeadlandDrawing£500.00
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Austin ColeSouth Pembrokeshire Headland 2Drawing£700.00
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Austin ColeStackpole 3.iDrawing£700.00
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Austin ColeSouth Pembrokeshire HeadlandDrawing£700.00
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Austin ColeStrumble Head - InletDrawing£700.00
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London
London has moulded me as an artist, giving me a visual language of how i see the city and how to represent it. London is a city that seems to be in a state of flux; it is continuously being rebuilt. In the time i have been in the city i have seen huge changes with whole areas being transformed and i hope that some of my prints reflect these changes. I usually take my camera and explore areas of the city which interest me, taking pictures and drawing in my sketch books. I am especially interested in older derelict buildings, though more modern buildings like the Shard have also been the subject of a print. This sense of change can also be seen in some of my cityscape prints such as St. Paul's and the Shard, views of the city made over a period of two years showing the building of the Shard around 2011 and 2013. When i went back to see the view a couple of years afterwards, the same view had changed again, making my earlier views of the city out of date.
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Austin ColeVenice nr Castello, 2022Etching£500.00
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Austin ColePalazzo Grand CanalDrawingSold
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Austin ColeGrand Canal Palazzo, 2016Etching£380.00
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Austin ColeVenice PalazzoDrawing£700.00
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Austin ColePalazzo Venice, 2015Etching£300.00
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Austin ColeVenice Palazzo, Side CanalDrawing£500.00
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Austin ColeRome Church, 2005Monotype£650.00
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Austin ColeVenice Arcade, 2016Etching£285.00
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Austin ColeTrastevere Church, RomeDrawing£500.00
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Betws-y-Coed
'These etchings were inspired by my involvement with the eames project 'Inspired by Samuel Palmer'. An exhibition where eames artists were loaned an original Samuel Palmer etching and created a work inspired by the print. I did an etching of the old church yard in isleworth on zinc using hard grounds and etched lines to build up tones a method used by Samuel Palmer and Rembrandt. When I visited Betws y Coed I took photographs of the walk as well as the rocks and trees. What interested me was the dappled light under the trees, the shape of the tree trunk and the root structures. The drawings came first done under lockdown followed by the etchings. These were done on copper as you have a more finer etched line. Again using multiple hardgrounds and etched lines I build up the tones to convey shadow as well as the dappled light.'
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Austin Cole, Betws-y-Coed
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Austin ColeBetws-y-Coed StudyDrawing£500.00
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Austin ColeBetws-y-Coed Study 2Drawing£500.00
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Austin ColeBetws-y-Coed Study 3Drawing£600.00
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Austin ColeBetws-y-Coed TrailDrawing£600.00
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Austin ColeOn the Trail - Betws-y-Coed, 2018Etching£300.00
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Austin Cole, Betws-y-Coed 3
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Austin ColeBetws-y-Coed 4Etching£300.00
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Austin Cole, A Walk in Betws-y-Coed
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Beijing, Tokyo & Seoul
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Austin Cole, Detail 1 Tokyo Fishmarket, 2018
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Austin ColeDetail 2 Tokyo Fishmarket, 2018Etching£160.00
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Austin ColeTokyo Fishmarket Study, 2017Etching£260.00
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Austin ColeAfter Hokusai Tokyo Fishmarket Warehouse 3, 2018Etching£300.00
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Austin ColeInside Tokyo Fishmarket Warehouse, 2018Etching£300.00
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Austin ColeTokyo Fishmarket Warehouse, 2017Etching£300.00
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Austin ColeTokyo Fishmarket Warehouse 2, 2018Etching£300.00
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Austin ColeSeoul Market, 2018Etching£350.00
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Austin ColeNamdaemun Market Seoul, 2019Etching£300.00
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Kamakurra, Japan
Kamakura was one of the former district capitals of medieval Japan and is now mostly for famous for a hollow bronze stature of the Buddha which is over 70 feet tall. It is also home to a number of Buddhist zen shrines and temples some of them joined by pilgrim/nature trails when l first went to visit Kamakura l went on one of the pilgrim trails. It was good to get away from the frenetic bustle of Tokyo to the quiet of a country trail. During the walk l would take photographs and sketch, l would pass rock cut shrines containing small statuettes of Buddha prayer papers and other offering so l would include them in my photographs. All of which gave me the feeling that l was taking part not only in a country walk but a part of a pilgrimage. When l came to creating a series of prints of the trail l decided to use the technique of multiple hard grounds and dips in acid to build up the image and convey the sense of light and dark in the trees and on the path. A technique used by both Rembrandt and Samuel Palmer.
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New York City
When I went to New York for the first time it was the brownstone buildings that attracted me with their fire escapes and water towers on the roofs. I also was attracted by the advertising hoardings on the side of the buildings. In my prints of New York I tried to incorporate these elements which acts as a visual motif of the city.
Early 20th century Artists such as Martin Lewis, Muirhead Bone and Edward Hopper have all had an influence on my prints about New York.
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At a Glance in the Print Room: Austin Cole | A Sense of Place
