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Artist talk Online: Victoria Elbroch: Wednesday, September 9, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm
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Wednesday Sep 9, 2020
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM EDTSept 9, 2020
12:10-1pmFees/Admission
Free
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Sara.Claflin@unh.edu
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Artist talk Online: Victoria Elbroch
Wednesday, September 9, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm
Join the online Zoom conversation with Victoria Elbroch, the 2019 award winner of the Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant given by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. The conversation will include Elbroch's works on view, her studio practice, and how the grant advanced her studio practice.
This free live online conversation will be held on Zoom (limited to the first 49 participants). Reservations required.
About the Artist:
Born in Cheshire, England, Victoria Elbroch lived in both India and Pakistan for most of her childhood instilling in her a great love for travel. Beginning at the age of 10, she went back and forth to her homeland, managing to survive her education in English boarding schools before her family was repatriated in 1969. In 1973 she immigrated to America with her husband, Lawrence who has always played a vital supportive role in her career as a printmaker and artist. While caring for her growing family, Victoria studied etching in Florida and at the University of Oklahoma, also spending three years working with master printmaker, Loraine Moore. She has continued to take every opportunity to learn and evolve in the 42 years she has made her living from her art.
Victoria’s studio work encompasses all 4 floors in her house from the printmaking press in the basement to the drawing space in the attic. Vicky is often found commandeering the dining table while spreading out larger work, or in residence, on the sofa, as she sketches or cuts out component pieces while watching the latest edition of Masterpiece. She specializes in mixed media drawing with ink and collage and two printmaking mediums, monotype and photopolymer etching. She has won numerous awards for her prints and was recently awarded the 2019 Piscataqua Artist’s Advancement Grant, enabling her to concentrate on her drawings and the study of trees, a particular passion of hers. In early 2020 she spent 6 weeks in the UK drawing meticulously researched ancient trees while also exploring her family roots.
Victoria states: Extraordinary trees, especially ancient oaks, cast a spell over me. Their strange gnarly bark and peculiar anatomy awaken an uncontrollable urge to stop and draw. These majestic survivors are a metaphor for all I hold dear: wisdom, family, connection, shelter and resilience and as a reminder of the fleeting nature of our lives in comparison to their lengthy life spans…It is with awe and respect that I try to alter perceptions with my work, reminding all of us of the threats to, and importance of the natural world. They are ecosystems supporting teaming, invisible life in the branches, and under the forest floor. Through my work I try to encourage people to take the time to imagine both worlds, one above the ground and the other below, seated in the enduring landscape”.
Image credit: Victoria Elbroch, The Heart of the Matter, ink drawings, 44” x 30”
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