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Owen Legg: The Fragmentation of the Image

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  • Category: Gallery

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I QUALIFIED MB,BS from Guy’s Hospital in 1959 and thought that I would make my way forward in surgery. But I failed my FRCS and instead started in General Practice in Tonbridge in 1966. Before leaving London I had started painting seriously and exhibited at the open air event on the Embankment.

While newly arrived I heard about a printing course at Tunbridge Wells Adult Education Centre. Once started I was hooked. I began to print a series of Limited Edition prints using the press there for 7 years before acquiring my own Soldan proofing press. There I printed my first book using linocut lettering for the text.

With the run-down of the printing industry in Tonbridge, I was able to acquire type and equipment to allow me to begin printing letter-press books and am now producing my 19th volume. Text and prints combine to make interesting reading. The choice is eclectic and varies from medieval volumes to modern poems, Viking sagas to topographical work. Edition sizes vary between 10 – 200, depending on energy and difficulty of printing.

Retirement came in 1999 and I have continued printing in the studio, but the rate of production has remained about the same. I must be slowing down! I am now on my 19th book which in Autobiographical as it contains many of the small cuts which I have made over the past 60 years.

At the same time I have done a small amount of painting, but varied my activities with making 3D wall-hanging objects. Furniture, which is at the same time usable and is based on simple shapes, is dotted around my house.

–  Owen Legg 2024

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  • Date: Tue 5 Nov 2024Time:  10.00am
  • Date: Wed 6 Nov 2024Time:  10.00am
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  • Date: Mon 18 Nov 2024Time:  10.00am

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