John R. Brunsdon

John R. Brunsdon

John Brunsdon (1933-2014) studied at the Royal College of Art from 1955 to 1958. He was head of the printmaking department at St.Albans College of Art for sixteen years and now lives near Diss on the Suffolk/Norfolk border where he has his own print workshop. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe and has participated in many one-man shows and group exhibitions in this country. John is widely considered one of Britain's most distinguished printmakers. His work is represented in many major public collections, including the Tate Gallery, the British Council, Scottish Museum of Modern Art, the V & A, The Arts Council, the Museum of Modern Art New York. He has exhibited in Sweden, Belgium, New Zealand, Austria, Australia, Japan, Canada & USA.

Landscape has always been John's foremost influence, even when images were still abstract and influenced by American abstract expressionists such as Kline and Motherwell. He is fascinated by man's mark on the landscape - the contrast between buildings and countryside: the one temporary the other timeless and primeval.