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Brian Rice has enjoyed a singular career, one that has covered a
period of remarkable dedication and innovation as a successful and
highly-productive painter and printmaker. This work catalogues the
stylistic shifts in his printmaking and documents his visual
language in a way that has not been seen before. Living in
Somerset, England until he was twenty, it was the period from 1962
to 1978 when he lived and worked in London that marked the
formative years in this artist's career, strengthening both the
conviction of his abstract work and his reputation. In 1978 Rice
rejected London, its art scene and abstract painting and, buying a
50-acre farm in West Dorset, England and immersed himself in
farming, his only contact with the art world was teaching at
Brighton Polytechnic. He continued to work slowly, developing a
visual language that was part of a dialogue with the past, inspired
by marks made by pre-historic man and the archaeology of the Dorset
landscape. In 1995, he had his first solo exhibition for 16 years,
a point which marked Rice's renewed commitment to life as an
artist. Always an unconventional print maker, Rice's recent
association (from 2006) with the publishing/printing house Artizan
Editions, encouraged a series of works where the primacy of
experiment is apparent. The essence of Rice's work remains in the
area of color and simple forms, with this instinctual insight
represented in each line, plane and color, in which the viewer is
invited into a dialogue with the work. This catalogue raisonnÃ(c)
examines the progress of his printmaking oeuvre, setting it in the
context of his life from the first print made at Yeovil School of
Art, Somerset in 1953 to the present time.
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