John Booth’s landscape etchings combine a figurative approach to landscape with the mark-making techniques unique to the processes of etching and aquatint. The images are sometimes realistic, sometimes abstract - depending on the degree to which the etching process is allowed to intrude on the subject.

The artist etches from life, taking steel plates and etching acid out into the landscape to use as a painter would use oils and canvas. Back in the studio the effects of time and etching acid are allowed to modify the plates so that the final images relate equally to observation and chance. Both are…

John Booth’s landscape etchings combine a figurative approach to landscape with the mark-making techniques unique to the processes of etching and aquatint. The images are sometimes realistic, sometimes abstract - depending on the degree to which the etching process is allowed to intrude on the subject.

The artist etches from life, taking steel plates and etching acid out into the landscape to use as a painter would use oils and canvas. Back in the studio the effects of time and etching acid are allowed to modify the plates so that the final images relate equally to observation and chance. Both are important in creating his work.

John Booth has been a practicing artist for the last thirty years. After graduating with an MA from the Royal College of Art he travelling the world as a film director. In recent years Booth has had two Open House exhibitions in the Brighton Arts Festival, two of his works were selected for the 2005 Royal Academy Summer Show and has also exhibited in the Affordable Arts Fair, London 2005.