Song of Experience I - Peter Wray (1950-) - 11/20 - 2007

Peter Wray was trained as a painter, extending his practice into printmaking in the early 1970s, after being exposed to the richness and unique expressive power of the intaglio surface.

With his background in painting, and being largely self-taught as a printmaker, the integration of painterly methodology into the graphic process was a natural development, and it is this combination of approach which gives his work its distinctive style:- “prints about painting, and paintings about prints”.

His influences are many: semi-religious symbols remembered from a Catholic childhood; the exquisite, accidental, sculptural imagery of the allotment garden; graffiti, and cave paintings enjoyed on travels abroad; the childhood fascination with the ‘printed’ images of fossils found in the shale tips near his home.

Peter Wray is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), and teaches regular courses in printmaking.