Brian Hanscomb Explained

Brian Hanscomb
Birth Date:	1944
Occupation:	artist engraver
Spouse:	Married

Brian Hanscomb is an artist engraver from St Breward, Cornwall.

Brian Hanscomb was born in 1944 at Croxley Green, Hertfordshire. His work is inspired by Quakerism, Zen Buddhism and Bodmin Moor.^[1] He served an apprenticeship in letterpress engraving and also trained as a gravure engraver.^[2]

His work is in the Government Art Collection, New York Public Library^[3] the Science Museum, London^[4] and the National Gallery of Australia. Hanscomb is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.

In 2010 Resurgence magazine described Hanscomb as "Britain's leading copperplate engraver".^[5]

Books

• illustrator for Oxley, William, The Mansands Trilogy. Richmond, Surrey: The Keepsake Press, 1988
• Sun, Sea & Earth Whittington Press, 1989
• Cornwall; an Interior Vision: copper-engravings & texts Whittington Press, 1992
• The Phoenix: copper-engravings & haiku Whittington Press, 2005

External links

• brianhanscomb.co.uk

Notes and References

1. News: Brian Hanscomb . resurgence.org . 27 November 2016.
2. Web site: Brian Hanscomb RE . Brook Gallery . 27 November 2016.
3. News: New York Public Library . gac.culture.gov.uk . 27 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161221091002/http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/artist.aspx?id=107114 . 21 December 2016 . dead .
4. News: Science Museum London . Science Museum London . 27 November 2016.
5. News: Brian HANSCOMB . cornwallartists.org . 27 November 2016.