Bernard Green (1931 - 1998)

Bernard Green studied at Birmingham College of Art & Design and became a painter, print maker and sculptor.
In 1977 he moved to Pembrokeshire where he ran the Hendre Cross Gallery together with his wife Margaret, also an artist, also trained at Birmingham. Bernard became well known in Wales primarily for his linocut prints of the Welsh landscape. Although the linocut is often overlooked and regarded as a simplistic and crude medium, Bernard refined his technique, creating multiple layers of colour, each individually pressed, using subtle blending of the pigments to create a sophisticated and atmospheric rendition of the subjects. The process is a reduction method which involved carving the lino in stages, colour by colour, each time adding a new element onto the image. Often this process would be repeated over a dozen times, meaning that each print could take weeks to produce. 
 
His prints were pressed on his large Columbian proofing press (circa 1853), a very physically demanding and laborious process. The press is now on display at the Swansea Print Workshop.
His work was exhibited at The Royal Cambrian Academy, The Royal Birmingham Society, Royal West of England Academy, the Royal Society of Painters Etchers & Engravers and at various gallery exhibitions in England and Wales. In 1986 he was artist in residence at the Graham Sutherland Gallery in Picton. In the 1980s he was commissioned by HM the Queen to produce a view of Caernarfon Castle as the subject for the Royal Telemessage.