Fernando Feijoo
Fernando Feijoo is a printmaker and multi-disciplinary artist based on the outskirts of Cambridge. He holds an MA in Fine Art Printmaking from Winchester School of Art and a BA in Illustration from Maidstone, and trained as a master printer at the Curwen Studio before moving into art education.
His practice moves between printmaking, drawing, painting, artist books and ceramics. He has exhibited internationally and won numerous prizes, among them the Hawthorn Printmaking Purchase Prize at the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers' annual exhibition in 2018 and 2020, the London Print Studio Prize, and the Artist's Eye Award from Printmaking Today for his artist book RUN. He has held residencies at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium, La Curtiduría in Oaxaca, Mexico, and London Print Studio.
His work is held in collections including the British Museum, the V&A, the Bodleian Library and the Pallant House prints and drawings collection, and he is an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
Artist Statement
My work has a sense of humor within it even though sometimes I make images which reflect the darker side of human nature. I am interested in social and political issues and reflect these themes within my work. My narrative images have hidden layers of information within them which the viewer can find each time they return to the work. The closer you are drawn into the image, the more you understand about the characters and the lives they lead. The process of drawing is fundamental for me. I enjoy how it translates through different print processes and creates alternate styles of work.
I see myself as a journeyman: travelling around, absorbing all the variety of cultural differences and architectural styles when I visit a new city, exploring people's lives and conditions in the twenty first century. These observations are then reflected throughout my work as a series of sequential narrative images.
I enjoy exploring new ways of making work through combining different media together, working with the interactions and juxtapositions of materials and techniques, which encourage fresh viewpoints and outcomes.
Drawing is a powerful medium which allows me to push my ideas into different directions and create the fantastic. There are no rules to be followed: just pure experimentation and fun to be had.