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.

If you’re interested in purchasing work, please feel free to contact Fran via the contact page or via Instagram @fran_farrar or Facebook @franfarrarartist

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Fran holds BA (Hons) Expressive Arts and MA Community Education. She has a significant previous history as a senior qualified youth work practitioner with particular interest in youth participation and involvement in the Arts nationally.

Fran is a founding member of IW Creative Network and was awarded a fully funded photoshoot by artist Julian Winslow in 2022.

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Finally ready to print the plate I’ve been working on these past few weeks. Full day printing, singing along to @mikainstagram with my new press running like a dream… really pleased, even if I do look so serious!😄 The wear and tear; restoration and care; the weathering and strains - boats in a yard. Such beautiful patterns and colours on these wooden hulls, quietly telling their stories. Evidently Newman is in my mind. Sketchbook explorations. Barnett Newman is one of my favourite artists and has been with me since my teens. Walking into the room @stedelijkmuseum and seeing ‘Cathedre’ 1951 slightly took my breath away. The richness, the tension and the presence is enormously powerful. Newman always delights. Perfection. The recent and current work displayed @stedelijkmuseum show such a range of exciting practices including El Anatsui’s enormous ‘In the World But Don’t Know The World’; James Beckett’s thought provoking work with particle board; Luna Maurer’s mesmerising graphics; Yinka Buutfeld’s textural rope & braid work; and the fascinating installation by Amy Suo Wo & Elaine W. Ho Visited the outstanding @stedelijkmuseum - Modern art that challenges, explores and celebrates. Earlier 20thC work here from Picasso, Malevich, Chagall, De Kooning, Maria Helena Vieira De Silva Not unsurprisingly the @rijksmuseum has a wonderful collection of work from the Dutch Enlightenment (17thC / 18thC) which I find utterly captivating and influential. The extraordinary representation of light captured in everyday scenarios. Absolutely thrilled to visit the Vermeer Exhibition @rijksmuseum An extraordinary opportunity to see 28 of the 37 known paintings by the 17th century master - potentially unlikely not to occur again for decades. I’ve been working on this plate for a while .. and there’s a while to go yet I think, but almost there. I’ll know when it feels ‘right’.
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