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My name is John Banfield, I am an artist and printmaker, based in Swansea, South Wales, I studied at Swansea College of Art, and qualified as a biological and medical artist, following this, I practiced as a medical artist in a prestigious London teaching hospital for a number of years, and taught continuous tone techniques, at the London School of Printing.
I changed career, and working for a large national charity; was successfully involved for nearly 40 years in countryside, estate, forestry and woodland management in the South West of England
I took early retirement and relocated to South West France, where for 10 years, I established a successful business in tree surgery, estate and woodland management.
On my return to Wales, 50 years later I resumed my old passion of printmaking. My drawings are transferred to lino blocks, carved and then printed onto a range of specialised papers, collected from many sources.
The textures of these papers, compliment the images printed down onto them, my prints are predominantly of natural subjects, with hints of symbolism and imagination, I have a studio in Swansea, where Iproduce my work.
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