Adrienne Craddock

Adrienne Craddock’s striking hand painted prints feature birds, beasts and figures who inhabit imaginary worlds inspired by stories, rhymes or fable.

Biography

The imagery can be festive and exhilarating, quiet and sensitive or dark and suggestive. Like the tales, rhymes and proverbs which kindle her creative vision, Adrienne’s art playfully reveals fundamental truths about human nature. It also champions the imagination and good story telling.

These carborundum prints which Adrienne describes as ‘paintings in print’ are printed in small editions of 25. They are hand inked carefully with several colours and printed. The finished prints are also often washed with watercolour. The Carborundum’s rough sandy, texture holds the ink and gives the resulting images an intense depth of colour. producing a richly textured surface, to which Adrienne responds with great sensitivity.

These pictures tell their own tale. The female figure representing ‘Eve’ may well refer to the artist herself. Adrienne say’s that ‘They are naive and playful souls discovering their environment.’ The simple, but emphatic, line she uses has a childlike quality which suits the subject of the first man and woman in their states of innocence.