Dartmoor Box No 6. (Bennett's/Spinster's)

Mike Tingle lives in Newton Abbot, Devon, where he works from his garage/printmaking studio. He attended Torquay Art School and made his first etching in 1971.

At Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, 1973-76, he gained a BA in fine art. From 1983 to 94, he was a member of the Gainsborough's House Printworkshop, Sudbury, Suffolk, where he concentrated on copperplate etching. After moving back to Devon in 1995 he joined the Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, (now Make southwest).

His work is in private collections and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum, New York, (under Michael Tingle), and the Met Office, Exeter.

He has experimented with many printmaking methods including, embossing, monoprint, lino, and digital, but he has always kept fine-line etching as his foundation.

A new feature of his work is the box assemblage print, where various prints are cut and constructed together within the miniature theatre of a box frame.

His most recent solo exhibition was The Stuff of Nonsense at the Riverside Gallery at Make southwest.

DARTMOOR BOXES. I was introduced to the power of Dartmoor at the age of eight when we moved from Coventry to Belstone for a few months during the severe winter of 1962-63. It was a baptism of snow and ice into a new world of raw nature and ancient time. My Dartmoor Boxes contain a mixture of prints and photographs, memories and feelings, old and new, celebrating the unique time and atmosphere experienced when walking amongst Dartmoor's rich habitats.

Etching, Digital Print

24x24cm

Framed under glass