Who's who
Roger Towndrow
Programme Leader in Art and Award Leader, Fine Art
Roger Towndrow trained as a painter at Camberwell School of Art and went on to gain an MA in printmaking at Wimbledon School of Art in 1986. Prior to joining the college in 1989 he worked as a muralist, lecturer, illustrator, printmaker and painter.
Since joining the Fine Art staff at Falmouth, Roger also taught the ‘The Serial and Sequential Image’ module on the Integrated Masters Programme. He has also taught at Sonoma State University, California, and was artist in residence at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. He has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe and has work in public and private collections in the UK, Australia and America.
Since 2002 Roger has been a member of the Council of Management at Newlyn Art Gallery
Drawing is a central concern in Roger’s studio practice providing a basis for development for work resulting in paintings, prints and further drawings. The following notes made in relation to recent work give a sense of areas of interest:
‘Back in the studio I used drawings made in the landscape to help make larger works with greater sense of process. I created a ground from layers of charcoal and dry pigment upon which to place the forms derived from drawings made in the sketchbook. By making this stratum of tones the ground had a flexibility and slight unpredictability that I found useful. My practice as an intaglio printmaker influenced this process. The paper was used as a surface that could be indented with lines, similar to the way in which a metal plate is etched. It was then ‘wiped’ with charcoal and pigment to obscure and reveal imagery referring to the landscape. The process of indenting, wiping and re – drawing occurred many times in the making of each image emphasizing the materials and the nature of the process, which itself acted as a metaphor for the processes of renewal and change apparent in landscape.’
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