Felicity Warbrick - Wedded Rocks, 2022

Chine-collé, Drypoint

56 x 76 cm

Edition of 6

Felicity uses drypoint, woodcut with painting and monotype to make her images. She takes objects or scenes from the real world, ranging freely across cultures and geographical boundaries in search always of the authentic or handmade.

The images are also a reflection of her inner world, a meeting with the picture book in her own imagination. What unites them is their sense of integrity and pared down simplicity.

The finished work retains a sense of what she calls the perfectly imperfect. The happy accidents of materials interacting with process are the essence of making.

They are also, to use myth-teller Martin Shaw’s phrase, both ‘time bound and timeless’, part of what we might call a commons of craftsmanship which Felicity shares with them. In this computer driven age in which information and truth has become detached from reality she feels we need these quietly subversive, real and civilised images to remind us who we are and what really matters.

Felicity studied at Chelsea School of Art. She exhibited at 2011 Jerwood drawing prize, Wells Art Contemporary 2018 and the RA Summer Shows 2016 and 2019. She has shown work in galleries in London, Hong Kong, Wales and the US.