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Glynn Thomas Aldeburgh Beach, 2006 (detail) |
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About the artist
(The text below appears on the back of the greeting card)
GLYNN THOMAS RE (b. 1946)
 GLYNN THOMAS was born in Cambridge 1946. He studied at the Cambridge School of Art and then, for some twelve years, taught printmaking at the Ipswich School of Art. He is now a full-time artist living in Suffolk. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and his work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the country. Perhaps the most striking feature of his style is his impatient eagerness to embrace every feature of his subject even if this means defying visual convention. As Nicholas Butler has written, 'The perspective is cockeyed, not a few of the buildings are lying on their sides in their eagerness to be included, but there, in a single, friendly print, is the essence of the place.'
When the etching of Aldeburgh beach from which this detail is taken was first exhibited in London, a critic wrote: ‘The detail is superb. Fishermen hauling their boats provide the main focus of a busy beach seen from out at sea. In the distance on the shore are bathers, a fat lady holding up her dress and a skinny elder wading in the water with a pipe in his teeth. Wonderful detail, like a child’s story book, extends even to the expressions on people’s faces.’
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Glynn Thomas's original copperplate etchings can be purchased from his website: 
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