A N G I E R O G E R S

I am a visual artist working across disciplines with drawing and printmaking always at the core of my activities. My work is predominantly concerned with responses to specific landscapes and the experience of being outdoors.

I was brought up on the edge of Birmingham where the city and the countryside converge and I often turn my attention to those hybrid spaces where the man-made and the natural environments interlace.

I studied at Leeds and later at Bradford and have lived in Hebden Bridge for over 20 years. captivated by the dramatic moorland setting and idiosyncratic architecture of this former mill town.

Out in the landscape I use sketchbook and camera to record my impressions of the shifting light, changing weather and seasonal growth patterns throughout the year, alongside the effects of the passage of time on human settlements and man-made structures.

Back in my studio these sketches and the accumulated memories of place become the basis for image making, often in the form of woodcut prints, Artist's Books and sculptural book forms, thus taking printmaking into the realm of 3D and connecting to ideas about 'The Enfolding Landscape', a place where paradoxically we can simultaneously lose and find ourselves.

Recent work has explored the upland watershed of the South Pennines with a focus on the engineering associated with water catchment and the flora and fauna of the high moors.