Born in London, Brenda Hartill emigrated to New Zealand with her parents, in the late fifties, and was educated there graduating FA honours at the University of Auckland.
Brenda Hartill is an innovative British painter / printmaker based in East Sussex where she has a studio.
Her work explores the texture, pattern and light of landscape, and ranges from finely drawn figurative works to bold, heavily embossed abstract images. She is most interested in the strong light and shadow of Southern Europe, as well as remote New Zealand.
In the early eighties, in search for more artistic independence, she turned towards printmaking and has been successfully been publishing her own work from her own large studio. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers.
Alongside the printmaking, Hartill also finds a more direct painterly approach refreshing, and has recently rediscovered the clear colour and overlaying possibilities of watercolor in her abstract works which serve to extend the vocabulary she uses. In addition the three dimensional have always interested her. The more sculptural embossed etchings and calligraphy have led to a breaking away from print on a single piece of paper to mixed media compilations for example the "floating landscapes".
She is
becoming increasingly interested in painting, creating a series of embossed
watercolor paintings, as well as her mixed-media collage
paintings using oil paint and encaustic wax . Her recent work includes a series
of unique monoprints, in muted colours, and black and white, and there is a
strong element of embossing in the latest prints
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