This is a beautiful original signed etching by the celebrated Scottish artist, Elizabeth Blackadder (1931 - 2021).
She was born in Falkirk and studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1949 until 1954 under Robert Henderson Blyth and William Gillies. In 1956 she married the artist, John Houston and began teaching at the ECA from 1962 until her retirement in 1986.
Blackadder regularly exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy becoming an Academician in 1972 and at the Royal Academy in London where she was voted an Academician by members in 1976. She died in 2021 and she is sadly missed by the artistic community in Edinburgh.
This intricate colour etching is titled: Japanese Garden, Kyoto. The print is an etching with aquatint printed in colours. It comes from a series of prints that she did over a period of years which used Japanese gardens as inspiration. It has a blind stamp for the Glasgow Print Studio on the lower right-hand corner of the sheet. She had a long history of working with the Glasgow Print Studio in printing her etchings.
Blackadder’s detailed and lyrical watercolours and prints show her love of gardening and her knowledge and intense interest in plants. In the 1980s she travelled to Japan. She visited the country several times with her husband and the formal gardens she encountered inspired her with new ways of planting and more formal ways of laying out gardens.
My work here is signed in pencil below: Elizabeth Blackadder and has the edition number 25/ 50. Image size: 14 x 20 cm. The sheet has wide margins on it - the window mount is the same size as the underlying sheet size. It is a very fine impression and the sheet is nice and clean with no condition issues. The details are nice and crisp and all the yellow colours are nice and bright with no fading.
It was printed in 1992 - and was later exhibited at the Scottish Gallery in their show "Scottish Master Prints", 8 May - 2 June 1993. It was number 43 in the catalogue. Their label is supplied with the work, as photographed,
It is being sold unframed but with a new window mount - all ready for you to frame. This means that I can post it to you more economically - and safer without having glass in the parcel.
The image size is 14 x 20 cm. The window mount is 44 x 47 cm
UK Posting Only. This will cost £10 and be posted to you with Special Next Day Delivery and fully insured in transit. Local Delivery of course would be free.