Home Page for Joanna Radford

Joanna Radford has lived in Devon since 1975, on Dartmoor since 1981. She was a member of Dartington Print Workshop, studying under Michael Honnor, until 2008. She has exhibited work in the South West.  She is primarily a printmaker, but has developed this medium to make artists' books, very often as collaborative projects with other printmakers.  She also makes books and commemorative albums to commission.  Her work is informed by and inspired by her "other life" as a small holder, Dartmoor commoner and breeder of Dartmoor ponies and Shetland sheep.
Contact Details
Address:	Hannaford Old House,  Poundsgate,  NEWTON ABBOT,  TQ13 7NX,  United Kingdom
Email:	Contact Joanna Radford
Home Telephone:	01364 631287
Work Telephone:	01364 631287
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Website:	www.joannaradford.co.uk

Pictures

Early Morning Shopping,Ashburton
This is a wood engraving cut on a Marley tile (remember those?!) which we inherited when we bought this house in 1981...

Chrysalis
A Concertina Book made from multiple prints of a wood engraving of a High Brown Fritillary butterfly fitted into a leather box.

Be True to Yourself
A Concertina Book made of a poem by the Sufi poet Rumi

Fluent
A woodcut inspired by Becky Gethin's poem "Fluent" made for a new collaborative project, "A Printmakers' Poetica"

Watching on the Moor
A linocut and woodcut inspired by that old favourite "Do you ken John Peel" - a poem in "A Printmakers' Poetica"

Orange Tree, Cyprus
A reduction woodcut from a sketch made when on holiday in Northern Cyprus

Hatherleigh
A vinyl engraving made during Hatherleigh Festival 2011

Moretonhampstead - Dartmoor Town
Another vinyl engraving, this time made at Moretonhampstead Food Festival 2011

On Holiday
Woodcut of husband asleep in a holiday house in Connemara. A perfect painter's house - huge windows, stunning scenery.

A fantastic year for rowan berries
Woodcut: Our wet summer has produced an amazing crop of all berries: some have gone to make apple and rowanberry jelly, excellent with Shetland lamb...

Chicken Shed
A book in a box made as an elegy for our hens after their long and productive lives

Three in One
The three dimensional version of a book made to commemorate a journey in a Galway Hooker, the Ave Maria, to St Macdara's Island off the coast of Galway. I am emphatically not a sailor so it was fairly character building...but inspirational

Old Lisbon from the Port
A reduction woodcut inspired by a sketch made this autumn

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