Carry Akroyd

Carry Akroyd is a painter and printmaker whose subject is the landscape, and often about the relationship between the farmed landscape and wildlife. Her main interests are colour and composition, especially within the limitations of hand-made printmaking. Her original serigraphs (screenprints) are made using layers of cut paper stencils, sometimes with a painterly application of ink. Occasionally a preliminary ground of printing starts as a basis for mixed media work with added painting or crayon or pastel.

Carry has illustrated a number of books with linocuts, and is the series jacket artist for the British Wildlife Collection, published by Bloomsbury. She makes a monthly illustration for the Bird Of The Month column in The Oldie magazine. The second solo book of her work, “Found in the Fields”, includes a lithograph series made with Curwen Studio about the poet John Clare which has been a touring widely over the past decade.

Elected to the Society of Wildlife Artists in 2000, Carry exhibits with them in London at the Natural Eye exhibition each year, and has worked on a number of their projects about threatened environments in collaboration with the Wildlife Trust and the Forestry Commission.

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Handmade Serigraphs and Lithographs