PETER WRAY

Peter Wray was trained as a painter, extending his practice into printmaking in the early 1970s, after being exposed to the richness and unique expressive power of the intaglio surface.

With his background in painting, and being largely self-taught as a printmaker, the integration of painterly methodology into the graphic process was a natural development, and it is this combination of approach which gives his work its distinctive style:- “prints about painting, and paintings about prints”.

Artist's CV

Peter Wray is an innovative printmaker with a considerable international reputation as an artist-printmaker.  He is one of the UK’s foremost exponents of collagraph/carborundum printing. In 2009, together with his partner and fellow artist Judy COLLINS, he moved from York to Penzance, re-locating ‘Handprint Studio’ to Trewidden Gardens. He has 35 years’ experience as a teacher.

Wray is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.  He has exhibited widely throughout Britain and abroad, and his work is held in several prestigious private, public and corporate collections.