Profile

Nigel Davison MA LCC is an artist and printmaker who runs Get to the Point Press in a barn where he lives on the Greensand Way in Kent. He takes inspiration from the deep countryside around where he lives and aims to embrace the meaning and significance behind all aspects of the county of Kent, through an interpretive exploration of its landscape.

He works in sketchbooks en plein air and develops these initial watercolour sketches into paintings in the studio, which then form the basis for reduction lino prints and engravings. He uses various tools to work on the surface of the lino and prints the block on his 1830 Super Royal Columbian printing press. The lightest colours are printed first followed by subsequent cuttings of the same block and reprinting, This builds up layers of different colours of translucent ink which gives a similar effect to the initial watercolour sketches. The final lino print can have as many as eight separate translucent colours, printed on top of each other.

On leaving art college he won a national printmaking award and has work in the collections of Adelaide University Library, British Library, Saison Poetry Library and many other private collections worldwide.