Glynn Thomas: Around the World in 80 Ways
Green PebbleOctober/November 2009 issue

Image published with permission of the artist

Glynn Thomas will be exhibiting at the Naze Tower Autumn Exhibition in Naze Tower, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from 12 September to 31 October. For more information, visit his website.

For printmaker Glynn Thomas, the world is a wondrous thing. It can be squeezed, stretched and poked until every building, boat and seagull is happily positioned – usually with a bit of a wobble – in their rightful place within the four edges of an etching plate.

Sometimes this means Glynn has to place buildings on their sides. At other times they end up being stacked on top of one another. One way or another, Glynn will try and find a means of extracting every drop of a place’s character into his etchings and still leave enough breathing room for the viewer to wonder about what lies just beyond the paper’s edges.

Perspective has always fascinated Glynn; especially the challenge of incorporating more than one perspective into a composition. ‘Most people draw within a rectangle. I often use an ellipse or a circle. If you close one eye, your field of vision alters and you see your nose and an ellipse,’ he explains. ‘And when you look at it through the other eye, you see things differently yet again. And when you look at the same object from between your legs, backwards and upside down….’

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Glynn Thomas: Around the World in 80 Ways Green PebbleOctober/November 2009 issue

Glynn Thomas: Around the World in 80 Ways
Green PebbleOctober/November 2009 issue