Laurie Rudling - artist

Laurie Rudling was born in Norwich in 1950 and trained as a teacher with painting and art history at Keswick Hall College of Education and Cambridge University 1968-72. From 1972 to 1986 he followed a wide ranging career in Art and Design teaching in Bedfordshire, London and Nottingham.

From 1982 he resumed his own artistic development with a printmaking group in Nottingham whilst working with that county's Education Advisory Service. He than came to settle in Devon where he has been a full-time artist and freelance lecturer since 1987.

Complementing his own work he teaches specialist drawing, pastel, mixed media and etching courses as well as general art and painting courses at various adult community and residential centres around Devon and further afield.

Laurie's own creative work is largely figurative although often concerned with abstract qualities underlying an image. Much inspiration is drawn from the landscape and coastline of the South West particularly. Travels to the other "western fringes" of Europe, notably Ireland, Scotland and both sides of the Channel are also influential. Another strong interest is the built environment and the exploration of varying architectural forms and the multi layered nature of human settlement in diverse settings and cultures.

Laurie also works in pastel, monotype and mixed media although it is as an intaglio printmaker that his work is most widely distributed and is for sale here in Bovey Tracey.

Laurie exhibits widely around the South West and further afield, in one-man shows and open exhibitions, including the Royal Academy, Pastel Society, National Exhibition and regularly at the Royal West of England Academy at Bristol.