Roger Sutcliffe - Patience: A Space for Reflection and Thought

Roger Sutcliffe SCA OSA: Artist Statement

Mark Rothko stated “Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored by those willing to take risks”. This quote captures what motivates me to push my boundaries, continually exploring new ideas, processes and techniques. Printmaking is an art form capable of limitless expressive capabilities, with printing processes lending themselves to artistic experimentation.

The hand-pulled prints from the series Patience: a Space for Reflection and Thoughtwere created using a number of collagraph plates developed with organic shapes and lines, using found materials and recycled textiles. Using my etching press, unique prints, or editions of prints, are created through printing of multiple layers, resulting in images with simple to complex relationships between lines, shapes, patterns and colours. They leave the visitor in an imaginary space, and evoke responses rooted in memory and experience.

My artistic practice reflects influences of printmakers including Harold Town and Otis Tamasauskas.

Roger Sutcliffe SCA OSA: Biography

Roger Sutcliffe is an award-winning painter and printmaker with a Diploma in Fine Arts. He is a member of the Ottawa Gatineau Print Connective, and served on the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA) Executive Council. His creations have been exhibited in over 200 exhibitions (solo, juried, group, and touring). Roger’s recent printmaking has received recognition being invited to participate in Unique Impressions, International Monoprint & Monotype Invitational 2022, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, USA, and solo exhibitions at the Stone School Gallery, Portage-du-Fort, Quebec, Neilson Park Creative Centre, Toronto, and Parrott Gallery, Belleville. He was awarded Ontario Arts Council exhibition grants from 2020 to 2022.

Recently, he was exhibition chair for Ambient Landscapes 150thAnniversary of the OSA exhibition at the Art Gallery of Northumberland (2022), on the curatorial committee for the 150thOSA Anniversary Exhibition, at the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Suites, Queen’s Park, Toronto (2022-23), and led OSA exhibitions at Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden (2023), and Parrott Gallery, Belleville (2024). He received the OSA Eleanor Besen Award in 2022.

He is represented by the Galerie W, Gatineau https://www.galeriew.ca and has work included in the Ottawa Art Gallery Galerie Annex.

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