Paul L.Kershaw

PAUL L.KERSHAW was born in 1949 in York.  He trained for the teaching profession in Newcastle upon Tyne and spent twelve years as an art teacher before leaving to concentrate on printmaking.  He began wood engraving, self taught, in 1985 and has become a remarkable master of this exquisite art.  Most of his work is a personal response to the landscape of north west Scotland, especially the Isle of Skye, his home since 1986.  He publishes his prints, black and white and colour ones, in limited editions printed by himself on a hand press.  In 1990 he was elected a member of the Society of Wood Engravers (SWE) and he exhibits regularly in their Annual Exhibitions.  In 1994 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.  His latest project has been the printing of a book for the SWE; an extension of their Millennium Ark composite engraving which he also printed.  Since 1998 he has taken over the running of Orbost Gallery on Skye, combining the role with pursuing his own engraving. 

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