Bernard Green original linocuts

Bernard Green was a distinguished painter and print maker whose work showed a remarkable ability to stretch the technique of linocut production to new levels of perception. When be died in February 1998 he left behind him a wonderful legacy of more than 70 images - supremely sensitive linocut prints all of which he had signed, dated and numbered. They also bear the impressit mark after the signature indicating that he alone worked the edition. Bernard was a quiet, retiring but complex man. He was a man who was warm and sensitive with a sensitivity that is revealed in the colour and tone of his prints. Much of his work evokes peace and harmony, rejecting the popular myth that linocuts are essentially crude and sometimes garish.

Pembrokeshire where he lived and worked from 1977 inspired much of his work. It was here that he experienced nature that is still the shaping force, where, despite man's incessant drive to urbanise, parts of the coastline remain untouched. In Bernard Green's work we find a man with an extraordinary capacity for interpretation in his chosen medium, something which owed much to his use of light and tone. The idea for a new landscape print was arrived at by sketching at the site of the chosen subject with colour and light carried in this artist's imaginative eye to inspire the working of each colour stage until as many as twelve colours were used to complete a print - prints that in the same way as original paintings are original in their own right. They have been entirely worked and created by the artist.

Bernard Green was chosen by Her Majesty the Queen to portray Caernarvon Castle as a linocut. This exclusive work has been reproduced by British Telecom on the Royal Telemessage for Wales. Bernard Green's work is represented in collections in 19 countries of the world and 29 public collections in the UK including The Gugenheim collection New York. His work has been shown in many galleries and exhibitions, including The Barbican, The Royal Society of Painter Pñntmakers, Anthony Dawson Fine Art, The Society of Wood Engravers, The Royal West of England Academy, The Edingburugh Festival, Royal exchange Theatre Manchester, Abbot Hall Kendal, The Minories Colchester and Wenniger Graphics, Boston, USA,