PAUL RITCHIE studied at Manchester (BA Fine Art) and Croydon (Advanced Printmaking).  He helped establish the etching department of Peacock Printmakers in Aberdeen and in 1978 he established the highly regarded Manchester Etching Workshop which he ran until moving to Scotland in 2000.  He also ran  a handmade paper mill.  

Paul is a distinguished printmaker, acknowledged as a master in the field.  He was elected to the Council of Manchester Academy of Fine Art in 1997.  More recently he has been concentrating on painting and has developed highly distinctive works.  His paintings incorporate engraved wood panels‚ inlaid with paper pulp and pigment‚ to achieve rich textures and tones‚ evoking the atmospheric qualities of the Scottish coast and landscape. 

"Paul Ritchie's dark, hugely textured works like "Sutherland Falls" act like cool shadowy retreats.  ...His works have a vigorous surface tension and a sense of place that you can almost smell.  They also possess a grandeur and a gravity that is difficult to balance but Ritchie pulls it off with masterly displays of intense technique."
Roddy Phillips, Press and Journal.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Royal Academy (13 occasions)   

Royal Scottish Academy

Print in the Making International Print Biennale

Whitworth Art Gallery: ‘7 Artists’

Manchester Academy

Hunting Group Prize

Oldham Art Gallery

Rochdale Art Gallery

AWARDS

First British Print Open (First Prize)

Prizewinner Elf Oil

Leeds Art Fair 2003 (First Prize)

North West Arts

COLLECTIONS

Arts Council

Scottish Arts Council

Victoria and Albert Museum

Johnsonian Museum New York

Scottish Gallery of Modern Art

Hunterian Art Gallery

Elf Oil UK

Aberdeen Art Gallery

Grampian TV

Livingstone Development Corporation

Tayside Regional Council

Inverness Art Gallery

University College Wales

Bradford Art Gallery

Bolton Art Gallery

Oldham Art Gallery

Rochdale Art Gallery

Salford Art Gallery

John Walker       

PUBLICATIONS

Songs of Innocence and of Experience - Facsimile, published in collaboration with the V&A.

Print in the Making - in collaboration with Bradford International Print Biennale. 

Falcon Portfolio - in collaboration with American Express

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