Roy Fairchild Woodard Monaco Impressionist Portrait Lithograph Print 38"

Description

Vintage pencil signed, limited edition lithograph print titled "Monaco" by Roy Fairchild Woodard, showing a figure in dark pants, white shirt and white hat, leaning against a white tree. Pencil signed, titled, and numbered 115/250 along bottom edge. Factory distressed champagne gilt frame with raised bevel; white mat.

"Roy Fairchild - Woodard was born in 1953 in Surrey, England. He lives and works most of the year in his country home. This peaceful environment is fundamental to his well being and stability as an artist, although he travels throughout Europe to obtain new sources of inspiration. He is particularly influenced by the painters of the Renaissance, and he visits Italy in particular to study frescoes, tapestries and paintings and to see for himself the techniques with which they were executed.

Fairchild left school at sixteen to train as a technical illustrator. Graphic design was his main degree qualification. He found technical drawing interesting because it is so exact-you can't argue with it. In this way, his first exposure was to an art that was highly disciplined, and this has proved invaluable throughout his career. His first employment was in advertising, producing photo realistic airbrush illustrations. He then went on to work for the Sackville Press, publishers and producers of educational books and diagrams. Fairchild was involved in producing technical illustrations, again highly disciplined and working to deadlines.

In 1980, he made the break from graphics and became a freelance painter. Fairchild was in a sense released and could paint in the way he wanted. His prints too, reveal this same sense of freedom and optimism. There is a sensuousness about them that evokes a feeling of timelessness and tranquility. Every available surface is filled with color and pattern-they are as colorful as Persian Illuminations, always brilliant, never harsh. Fairchild's aim is to draw with Japanese freedom, to produce images that are shrouded in duplicity and mystery. He loves to break the color up, reveling in the secrecy of it." (Source: askart)

Condition

Very Good

Dimensions

30" x 1.5" x 37.5" / Sans Frame - 21" x 28" (Width x Depth x Height)