bryan holdsworth | fine art prints

I work as a professional graphic designer and fine-art printmaker. Following a fairly long printmaking sabbatical, I've recently started creating new collections of digital prints. My early work focused on screen-printing and although I explored other traditional printing techniques and combining them with digital while studying for my MA, I'm now focusing solely on digital printmaking.

digital print editions

For my latest digital print editions I've started working with one of the UK’s leading fine art printers. Drawing on my experience in both digital printmaking and graphic design, and using the very latest technologies for ensuring colour accuracy and print quality, I'm creating colour-perfect Giclée prints at theprintspace, an award-winning fine-art printer trusted by galleries and artists across Europe.

My new prints are created in a digital environment, integrating drawing and digital mark-making with concepts from screen-printing and computer graphics. I use a colour calibrated digital art workflow, with both on-screen soft-proofing and printed proofs. When I arrive at a finished print that I'm completely happy with, I sign-off a final printed proof and digitally sign the originating print file for that limited edition.

My digital print editions are museum-quality Giclée prints, created with archival inks on Hahnemühle fine-art papers, printed at theprintspace studios in London and Düsseldorf. Issued in limited editions of 50, each print is signed and numbered and comes with a certificate of authenticity.

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print collections

My new digital prints are grouped into themed collections. I've recently revisited some of my earlier work, using updated imagery and more vibrant colour made possible with new digital print technologies, to create new versions of earlier works as well as original new prints for these collections.

OLIVE TREES

WHITE & LIGHT

LAND

Mt FUJI

Olive trees

My Olive Tree prints are inspired by the sometimes ancient olive trees found growing on remote terraces on a small Greek island in the Aegean. The Olive tree is rooted in Greek mythology and forever green, and can live for up to a thousand years. However, the reality of a remote terraced grove reveals a more humble, peasant-like tree. The images have been developed from carefully observed studies of olive trees using both drawing and photography. Taking inspiration from Paul Klee, the drawings play with the idea of “taking a line for a walk”, each tree drawn using only one or two continuous lines. Light, colour and form are abstracted from the external landscape and used to explore an inner world of beauty and poetic tranquillity. The images are playful and serious, naive and knowing, both tangible and imaginary, and can be viewed as stylised portraits with each tree given a name.

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