Printmaker Trevor Price has launched his new exhibition at Porthminster Gallery, in St Ives, and it highlights very different aspects of his work.
Trevor Price at the opening of his Fore Street show
As one enters the Fore Street gallery, Let’s Go And Live By The Ocean, a majestic woodcut print on paper, captures the sight. One of a series of 75 prints, it captures sunrise across St Ives Bay, looking towards Godrevy, and exemplifies the current strand of Price’s work.
Further into the gallery, studies of the Barbara Hepworth garden, just up the road, are full of intricate detail, delivering an almost photographic quality from a distance. But it’s all precise hand-made work. Phone photography provides the initial scene for reference. The rest is long, painstaking studio work.
Contrast this with seaside views from St Ives properties, with playful, semi-abstract, cavorting naked couples in the foreground. The same artist? Surely not. But yes, another aspect, another time.
Born in Cornwall, Trevor studied printmaking at Falmouth and Winchester schools of art. He became an elected member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 1994, and served as its vice-president from 2013 to 2018.
His work is held in various collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Guangdong Museum of Art, China, Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum China, Yale University, USA, The Office of Public Works in Dublin, and The Bank of England.
In 2020, he undertook a large relief print commission by China’s National Academy of Painting, which was exhibited at China’s National Art Museum, in Beijing, and then toured the country. He has won several national printmaking awards, with the most recent being the Viking Prize for Print at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2025 and the Printmaking Today Award at the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers 2017 exhibition.
He shares his time between a studio close to Tower Bridge in London and his studio in St Ives. Find out more at trevorpricestudios.com/
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