Martin Truefitt-Baker

Martin Truefitt-Baker is a fine art printmaker and painter living in the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, South Wales. He has exhibited in many galleries across the UK and his prints are often commercially published in calendars, greetings cards, notebooks and jigsaws.  

Martin’s linocuts use a reduction method, often from just a single piece of lino. This is progressively cut away and overprinted onto paper several times, in a succession of tones, to build up the final image. The prints are of the animals he has seen on his walks through the local landscape, mostly within just a couple of miles of his home. He tries to catch some of the magic in the way the animal moves and lives within its environment, as if you were there with it running or swimming alongside, rather than observing from a distance. The backgrounds are busy with rough mountainsides, twisted trees, wild flowers, birds and insects.