Martin Ridgwell: There is a Wild Beast in Your Woods

About the artist:

Martin Ridgwell is an artist/printmaker whose work follows in the tradition of English figurative, narrative art. Born and now based in London, it was whilst studying art at Bradford Art College in the early eighties that he discovered the process of etching, under the tutelage of printmaker Alan Marks. He found an immediate affinity with this craft and since then, Intaglio Printmaking has been his chosen medium of his artistic practise.

His work is predominantly concerned with how men engage with each other. The rooms in which they find themselves in, however opulent they are, become a psychological arena, where their unexpressed desires and conflicts are played out, in each round they attempt but seemingly always fail to communicate with each other. The narrative is never spelt out, Ridgwell knows only too well that every viewer brings their own stories to his work and each person’s understanding and interpretation is unique.