GERTRUDE HERMES
Gertrude Hermes is artist known for her works in sculpting, woodcuts, linocuts and drawings. Her drawing and woodcuts and lino cut are what she made along side her sculptors. She would draw from nature as a source of inspiration, normally showing images of animals, flowers, trees or landscapes. During the Second World War she used her drawing skill to obtain a job at the drawing offices for aircraft factories and shipyards. She had worked with only black and white for many years and after a long time she grew tired of the limited pallet of black and white and decided to experiment more with colour in her work. She made colour wood engravings and large linocuts that became the main focus of her exhibitions. She developed a career later in life as a teacher at art schools based in London
Her has a lot of build up in contrast between the white and black areas its almost painful to look at the white outline around the deer when against the sudden black background. Looking at the linocut you can see all these small carefully details that shows Hermes’s skill when it came to her work. Personally I like the work as a whole and the part that really sticks out for me is the textures of the deer. It seem to have this fur like rendered quality to it. In the sense that the artist has made it look like that rather than it being accidental results of the art work process.
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