Acrylic by Mike Tingle
Mr Blake Is Entertained
Mike Tingle
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.
A black and white acrylic painting on a textured wooden panel. William Blake visited Samuel Palmer and friends at Shoreham in Kent.
Acrylic on Wooden Panel
21x27cm
