Smokehouse Below the Foothills of the Cuillins, Isle of Skye

 

Kevin Fletcher

  1956 - PRESENT (biography)

2018  

monotype 

10 15/16 x 8 7/8" image size 

pencil, lower right 

I/II 

pencil titled, dated, and editioned; annotated in pencil along bottom sheet edge: "Kevin Glen Fletcher - Santa Rosa, CA / monotype, a unique print in mixed bistre ink (ghost sky used for II)" 

 

cream Rives BFK wove 

published 

artist 

KEFL279 

$550.00 

A collection of gestural lines that gently disturb a pool of dark sepia ink is all that Kevin Fletcher needs to create a stunning, moody landscape. Many months spent in the shifting fog and rain of northern Scotland’s Isle of Skye lent Fletcher’s work an intimate knowledge of the beauty found in cold and unforgiving places. The craggy Cuillin mountain range extends several juts of land outward, creating sea-enclosed lochs where the fog settles.

Fletcher’s style is deeply inspired by Old Master printmakers as well as the dramatic paintings of Dutch masters; yet his execution is almost startlingly bare, with only the most minimal of movement, line, and form required to achieve the mood of the piece. This works to great effect for the California printmaker who has perfected his technique for over four decades.