Niall MacCrann
Painting, drawing, printmaking.
About
I am a painter and printmaker based at St. Barnabas Press in Cambridge. My work is about people, the human body, and our relationship to land. I begin with observational drawing, often in streets, pubs or eateries, on trains or ferries, or in the swim spots of Dublin. I am a life drawing fanatic, attending two sessions a week. The experience of being “sort of Irish” runs throughout my recent work. Its characters are displaced from their native place or time, sometimes finding themselves among the artifice and cultural maelstrom of the funfair.
All of this feeds into explorative and symbolistic works in oil paint and a range of traditional printmaking techniques, aiming to create work that shouts that it has been created by a human hand. I am especially devoted to etching, where one uses acid to bite into copper plates, from which vibrant images are transferred to paper using rich, buttery ink. .
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