Gina Medcalf’s abstract paintings often feature sweeping vertical ‘broom strokes’ that move from left to right across the canvas. Working within a carefully limited palette, her rigorous images are perfectly suited to the orderly process of printmaking, which also involves an element of chance and intuition embraced by the artist. Medcalf and Kip Gresham collaborated on two etchings made at Kip’s studio in 2017. Titled Meldreth and Shepreth after two towns situated on the railway journey between London and Cambridge, the resulting pair of limited edition prints evoke the same sense of rhythm and repetition as seen in Medcalf’s paintings.
Medcalf graduated from the Central School of Art and Design in 1969. From 1973 to 1986 she lived, worked and exhibited in the USA. She has since continued to lecture and exhibited widely in the UK and beyond receiving awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation award (2008 and 2017) and an Abbey Fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2014. She lives and works in South London.
