Deep Green

Location

Country: Belgium
City: Brussels
Place: British Embassy, UK representation to the EU & UK delegation to NATO

This abstract geometrical print uses precise and deceptively simple intersections of line, shape and colour to strong effect. While the title alludes to a ‘deep green’, the colours featured in the print are in fact a black ground, with contrasting blue and silver vertical lines running across it to cluster into rectangular formations at the bottom. Michael Hale produced a number of similar works at the time, including Black Brown Grey (GAC L952).

Born in London, Michael (Mike) Hale studied at Norwich School of Art (1952–56), and the Royal Academy Schools, London (1956–60). A pioneering, and largely overlooked, screenprinter, Hale worked as a master printing technician at Kelpra Studio, set up by wife Rose Kelly and husband Chris Prater in Kentish Town in 1957. He later taught at art schools and colleges including Bath Academy, Winchester School of Art, Strasbourg College of Art and was Head of the Printing Department at Leicester Polytechnic (today de Montfort University). Hale exhibited with Tom Phillips at the AIA Gallery in 1966 and was one of the artists included in the Arts Council exhibition, 'Eight English Printmakers' (1970).

Places

Subjects

abstract

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

Michael Hale (1934 - )

Title

Deep Green

Edition

1/20

Date

1966

Medium

Screenprint

Acquisition

Purchased from Editions Alecto, February 1972

Inscription

below image: Deep Green 1/20 / Michael Hale '66

GAC number

L951