Mike Tingle

Mike Tingle lives in Newton Abbot, Devon, where he works from his garage/printmaking studio. He attended Torquay Art School and made his first etching in 1971.

At Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, 1973-76, he gained a BA in fine art. From 1983 to 94, he was a member of the Gainsborough's House Printworkshop, Sudbury, Suffolk, where he concentrated on copperplate etching. After moving back to Devon in 1995 he joined the Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, (now Make southwest).

His work is in private collections and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum, New York, (under Michael Tingle), and the Met Office, Exeter.

He has experimented with many printmaking methods including, embossing, monoprint, lino, and digital, but he has always kept fine-line etching as his foundation.

A new feature of his work is the box assemblage print, where various prints are cut and constructed together within the miniature theatre of a box frame.

His most recent solo exhibition was The Stuff of Nonsense at the Riverside Gallery at Make southwest.

Over the last year I have found myself looking up into the sky more often than I use to. The sheer delight of sight-flying through all the changing layers of cloud formations; the intense and surprising colours; the pleasure of spotting the moon unexpectedly as it appears from behind cloud cover. This has led me to create a series of 1m square paintings and small digital prints that are a mixture of memory and imagination: mindful squares of pure sky.

Mixed Media | Oil on Wood, Lino Print on Wood, Icon.

22x33x5cm