Fran Farrar

Artist & Printmaker

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Fran Farrar, Printmaker, printmaking, etching

About

Hi – I’m Fran Farrar, a printmaker and artist who uses etching, monotype printing and painting to explore very personal emotional responses relating to identity and ancestry. My work uses repeated abstracted shapes and lines to express detailed feelings through a vocabulary of urgent mark making, some of which are further explored through abstract etching techniques. My intimate, short edition prints bring together environmental identity with familial connections through a repertoire of repeated symbols and images, and often make reference to transporting nostalgic recollections. I attach particular significance to the concepts of time and place, and my position within an ancestral chronology.

I am based on the beautiful Isle of Wight and am forever drawn to the sea. I try to seaswim daily throughout the year and take inspiration from my studio’s sea view.

Occasionally I enjoy investigating ceramics and have been working with experimental glazes incorporating coastal material to further explore texture inspired by the coast.

Most of my work is available to purchase – please feel free to contact me via the contact page or via Instagram @fran_farrar or Facebook @franfarrarartist

Click on tab below for latest Instagram posts

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Thrilled to have a small solo exhibition of new work @arch_windowgallery in Ryde, IOW Transfixing movement #willowtree Trying to capture. The flash of light and landscape of travel and the similarities to flicking through fleeting, remembered moments in our thoughts. Complex simplicity. ‘Suspended Memory’ I had a large Collograph I wanted to print and currently my press isn’t quite big enough. And so I had a wonderful day using the big press at Jubilee Stores @quayarts with @islandprintspace #pressgang ‘Building Memory I’ ‘Catching the Light Cowes I’ is on show in the RWA 169th Open @rwabristol until 8th Jan ‘23. ‘And the trees keep growing.. I’ Repeat. Think. Repeat.
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