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‘Meticulous and precise yet bursting with life’
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BEN SANDS is one of those artists you’ve probably never heard of, but should have. He worked in woodcuts and linocuts as well as being an expert typesetter and accomplished painter.
I first became aware of him when his son Matt started putting photographs of his prints on Facebook.
Even with this less than ideal presentation, I could see straight away that this work was something special. It is meticulous and precise and yet bursting with life at the same time.
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