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Peter Ford RE studied at the Hereford College of Art, Brighton College of Art and London University. He has been a director of the Off-Centre Gallery in Bristol since 1987.
Peter Ford is represented in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Ashmolean Museum, the Museum of Art in Portland, USA, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kaliningrad Art Gallery in Russia and Galeria Stuki in Lódz, Poland.
During a career of 30 years as a print artist, Peter Ford has developed skill in a number of methods including etching, aquatint, drypoint and mezzotint. Since 1994, when etching ceased to be central for him, he has worked with wood, found materials and his own handmade paper, often inventing processes as he goes. Many of his recent images are abstractions, though suggestive of landscape and the wider world. He says that he is happiest when manipulating materials and always hopes to surprise himself and others, in a positive way, when lifting a printed image from the press.
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