Title: Sky Window 13: Rainbow

Year: 2023

Media: Digital print on Somerset Satin paper (edition no: 12/35)

Size: 17.3 x 13 cm

About the work: This is one of a related series of 24 digital prints created by the artist in 2023 and currently showing in her major solo exhibition “Anne Desmet: Kaleidoscope/London” at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, now until 12 January 2025. All 24 prints are inspired by an earlier stone lithograph by the artist depicting the forecourt of London’s Royal Academy of Arts but photographed through a kaleidoscope app and with additional drawing in image creation software. Each print in the series portrays an imaginary London window to the sky and each contains, within its oculus, a sight that the artist has either seen, remembered or imagined.

Bio: Anne Desmet RA is an artist-printmaker specialising in wood engraving, for which she has won 40 awards and has works in museum collections worldwide. Over 50 solo shows include six at national and international museums. Desmet is author of seven books on printmaking/drawing and was editor of Printmaking Today magazine (1998-2013). Commissions include engravings for the British Museum; National Gallery; British Library; V&A; Sotheby’s and the Royal Mint. Only the third wood engraver ever elected to membership of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA), she has a major solo exhibition at London’s Guildhall Art Gallery from April 2024 – January 2025