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Stephen Farthing RA’s print for the RA Editions programme continues his fascination with the drawing process, taking a domestic tree in Virginia as his subject.
Exclsuive to the RA, this etching is produced in a limited edition of 60, each signed and numbered by the artist.
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Tree in Virginia is the first of a series of prints. Farthing’s subject grows on a strip of land that separates Ronald Regan domestic airport and the Pentagon. His advice on drawing trees is to "start with the very highest leaf and slowly work your way down… the trunk is the easy bit”.
Farthing drew his first ‘tree portraits’ in the summer of 1999, in Southern France. The following year he moved to New York and halfway through the process of re-drawing the trees onto etching plates, the project was halted as a result of a studio fire.
The RA Editions programme generates valuable revenue for the RA and in particular the RA Schools.
Stephen Farthing RA’s new print for RA Editions continues his fascination with the drawing process, taking a young domestic tree in Virginia as his subject. Farthing drew his first ‘tree portraits’ in the summer of 1999, in Southern France. The following year he moved to New York and halfway through the process of re-drawing the trees onto etching plates, the project was halted as a result of a studio fire, and the 9/11 tragedy. This is the first in a new series of prints; Farthing’s subject is growing on a strip of land that separates Regan domestic airport and the Pentagon. His advice on drawing trees is: "start with the very highest leaf and slowly work your way down… the trunk is the easy bit”.
All proceeds from the sale of RA Editions prints go directly to support the RA Schools.
About Stephen Farthing RA
Painter Stephen Farthing studied at St Martin’s School of Art from 1969 to 1973 before completing a Masters Degree in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 1976. While at the Royal College, Farthing was offered an Abbey Major Scholarship, an honour which took him to the British School in Rome for a year.
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