Tammy Ratcliff – Autumn Branch

Tammy Ratcliff – Autumn Branch
Acrylic, graphite and washi – 2009
36″ x 72″
$4,600

Tammy Ratcliff – Statement/Bio

Pursuing her first loves of painting and drawing, Tammy discovered printmaking while attending BealArt in 1990. She soon moved to Guelph to set up an open print studio / gallery with a fellow printmaker, and has since exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Canada and abroad, including the recent World Washi Summit in Toronto. She’s happily hard at work, preparing for upcoming solo shows in both Windsor – entitled ‘Paperwork,’ in November 2009 – and in Cambridge’s Preston Gallery – named ‘Soft Celebration,’ showing in May 2010.

Tammy Ratcliff was born in Toronto in1966. She studied printmaking at BealArt in London, Ontario and has been printing since her first class in 1990. After leaving school, she opened a small print shop and gallery which she ran for seven years with a fellow printmaker, Ryan Price, in downtown Guelph. She lives in Guelph with her family and she works in her own studio amongst the diverse artistic community in the Trafalgar Building Studios.

Through her intaglio, monotype prints and mixed media works she strives to convey her fascination with the natural world; its strength and beauty while drawing attention to the imperfections and impermanence inherent in all living things. Her recent work has been an examination of pieces of the whole; inclusion, exclusion and difference. This fascination with the facets and relationships that make up the entirety is embodied in both my artistic process and in the content of Tammy’s art.

Her work has shown extensively in group and solo shows, most recently at Lennox Contemporary for the World Washi Summit, Gallery Stratford, Open Studio, Toronto and the Print Studio in Hamilton.

Tammy has received provincial grants and various awards for her artwork since first exhibiting in 1993. Her work is included in numerous private, public and corporate collections in North America, Europe, Australia and the Caribbean.

Tammy Ratcliff – Autumn Branch II

Tammy Ratcliff – Autumn Branch II
Acrylic, graphite and washi – 2009
36″ x 72″
$4,600