Alan Basil Grobler Artist/Printmaker

Sunday, 25 February 2018

Every artist's studio needs a 'mood board'. This is mine!

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Sunday, 18 February 2018

Printing on track. Woodcuts. Images 45cm x 30cm / 30cm x 45cm, editions printed on Hahnemühle


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CATALOGUE OF CHARCOAL DRAWINGS ON 120GSM FABRIANO - welcome to email for further information concerning the works listed: alanbasilgrobler@gmail.com




















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Saturday, 17 February 2018

STEPS, designs on woodblock image size 45cm x 30cm prepared and ready for printing



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SOUTH AFRICAN ICONS

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, woodcut 45cm x 33cm

Stephen Biko, woodcut 48cm x 29.5cm

Nelson Mandela, linocut 38cm x 29cm

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Saturday, 10 February 2018

Busy working round the clock⏰ to complete work for exhibitions I'm taking part in...two different mediums two different group shows. Here's an update of woodblock designs cut and prepared for printing - Premier Milling Co., Port Elizabeth




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Friday, 9 February 2018

Black and white and the invisible line. Last image ( in reverse) in the series of 6x woodcut designs, 30cm x 45cm Cutting and printing begins.


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Tuesday, 6 February 2018

Aerial view of Port Elizabeth looking towards the north with the abandoned Premier Milling co. building in the centre of the photograph


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Two more inked designs ( in reverse) on the woodblock of the abandoned old Premier Milling Company building, Port Elizabeth - 45cm x 30cm. Have one more design of this building for the series to complete, and then the tedious process of cutting, and printing on Hahnemuhle starts.



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Sunday, 4 February 2018

Black and white and the invisible line - a few designs in ink on the woodblock I'm presently working on, 45cm x 30cm.




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Friday, 2 February 2018

'STRAND STREET, PORT ELIZABETH' charcoal on Fabriano 1600mm x 1800mm


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Thursday, 1 February 2018

Update on new work in progress, charcoal on Fabriano 1600mm x 1800mm


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Alan Grobler - visual artist. Charcoal Drawing, Woodcut & Linocut printmaking
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Born in 1954 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He graduated with distinctions in printmaking and book illustration from the College for Advanced Technical Education, 1980. He worked briefly in advertising and was later commissioned as a freelance book illustrator. In 2008, presented a printmaking workshop in Sweden. He works in the medium of printmaking, charcoal drawing and acrylic on canvas. He exhibited on numerous solo, regional and overseas group exhibitions A poster design based on a print depicting the four corner stones of the life of Nelson Mandela, was included in the Official 95 International Mandela Poster Project and traveling exhibition. In 2014, he was recipient of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Sponsor Choice Award for a woodcut entry towards the Wish You Were Here Selector’s traveling exhibition. In 2016, he was selected to be part of a local adjudication panel for the 97th Annual Exhibition, Port Elizabeth. During 2017 and 2018, he became recipient of an award from the Regional Department of Arts and Culture, Eastern Cape, for work submitted towards curated exhibitions, TRUTH BE TOLD and THE MEANING held in Port Elizabeth.
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