'Oh, Aye, We've Voted for Brexit,' saieth the British Midlands Industrial Sector (with Pride)

Kevin Fletcher

American printmaker Kevin Fletcher has spent much time in the United Kingdom and, in this monotype, makers a personal observation about the British Midlands, which were the center of the industrial revolution but have fallen on hard times with manufacturing competition from overseas and a lower than the average UK human resource skills in science and technology. These areas will be among the most affected when Brexit happens, though they overwhelming voted for it.

Fletcher depicts a crumbling infrastructure, a bridge, crumbling in disrepair. In the distant background a storm rages.

In an October 13, 2007 review of Fletcher's monotypes in a San Francisco exhibition, San Francisco Chronicle reviewer Kenneth Baker made the following observations:

"(California) North Bay artist Kevin Fletcher has verged on the topical now and then in his masterly monotypes, evoking industrial architecture - and thus, industrialism - in ruins…. Contemporary graphic art does not get any better.

Fletcher can stand comparison with Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), whose etchings of imaginary prison interiors they sometimes bring to mind. Fletcher has added monochrome tints to several of the new prints, enhancing their suggestions of smoky light."

Read the biography for more information about Fletcher's method for creating these dramatic monotypes: https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/712/Fletcher/Kevin