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Literary Portraits by Mark Handley (British, b. 1943)

	Mark Handley read English Literature at Cambridge University and went on to train and practice as an architect. He began making linocuts in 1980 inspired by the character, example and friendship of Edward Bawden, for whom he designed a work room in Saffron Walden. His prints reveal a preoccupation with robust design and gentle humour; (he won a prize in a Punch cartoon competition in 1969 and subsequently made a series for the Cambridge Evening News on the local subjects of bicycling and punting). His work is held in a number of private and public collections and has featured in numerous exhibitions; including the Conservatory Gallery, The Heffers Gallery, Cambridge, the Old Fire Engine House, Ely, Wiggins Teape Paperpoint, London and Aldeburgh. An article on his technique was published in The Artist in June 1998. In 1987 the illustrator, David Eccles wrote of his cuts: He is a dull fellow who fails to respond to the straightforwardness and humour of Handley's images. For those who care to analyse such things, his work can be seen to relate to that grand and peculiarly English traditition which must include such names as Joseph Crawhall, the Beggarstaffs and Edward Bawden... These prints are bold and big - some are very big - and they possess a kind of innocence which in hands less confident inevitably looks contrived; but the line here is always firm, the design always assured... These pictures have the reassuring quality - and often the texture - of really good thick English marmalade; honest sustaining stuff that ought to be spread generously. Linocuts on paper, each signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 50; larger cuts 50 x 20 cm.; smaller 13 x 11 cm. (average) other available subjects include: Dr Leavis, Thomas Hobson, Catherine Parr, Ethel Monticue, I.K. Brunel, Phillip IV of Spain, Victoria and Albert, Oscar Wilde, Bewick's Lion, Shelley, E.M. Forster, Shakespeare, Sir Richard Burton, James Elroy Flecker, Thomas Hardy, Don Quixote, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, G. B. Shaw, James Cable, Britannia, Edward Lear, Prufrock, Coleridge, Robert Graves and D.H. Lawrence. Please allow 2 weeks for delivery.

		Matthew Arnold Linocut on wove paper 1995 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 115 x 130mm. (image) £30

		James Elroy Flecker Linocut on wove paper 1995 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 85 x 110mm. (image) £30

		Charles Meryon Linocut on wove paper 2004 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 130 x 210mm. (image) £30

		Thomas Love Peacock Linocut on wove paper 2004 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 75 x 130mm. (image) £30

		Virginia Stephen Linocut on wove paper 2007 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 125 x 130mm. (image) £30

		Lytton Strachey Linocut on wove paper 2001 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 300 x 120mm. (image) £30

		Shakespeare Linocut on wove paper 1994 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 115 x 90mm. (image) £30

		Daisy Ashford Linocut on wove paper 2007 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 205 x 160mm. (image) £30

		Iris Murdoch Linocut on wove paper 2004 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 195 x 170mm. (image) £70 (framed)

		Joseph Conrad Linocut on wove paper 2004 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 150 x 235mm. (image) £55 (framed)

		Oscar Wilde Linocut on wove paper 1992 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 132 x 215mm. (image) £60 (framed)

		The Muse Linocut on wove paper 1993 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 130 x 260mm. (image) £36

		John Betjeman Linocut on wove paper 1999 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 105 x 170mm. (image) £30

		Britannia Linocut on wove paper 1998 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 90 x 160mm. (image) £30

		Robert Browning Linocut on wove paper 1991 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 250 x 335mm. (image) £36

		Lord Byron Linocut on wove paper 1997 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 210 x 280mm. (image) £42

		R.S. Surtees Linocut on wove paper 1992 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 210 x 285mm. (image) £36

		Jonathan Swift Linocut on wove paper 1994 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 115 x 130mm. (image) £30

		Alfred, Lord Tennyson Linocut on wove paper 1991 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 375 x 210mm. (image) £36

		Anthony Trollope Linocut on wove paper 1990 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 210 x 500mm. (image) £36

		I. K. Brunel Linocut on wove paper 1991 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 192 x 280mm. (image) £36

		J.M.W. Turner Linocut on wove paper 1992 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 300 x 450mm. (image) £50

		Evelyn Waugh Linocut on wove paper 1998 Signed, titled and numbered from edition of 50 103 x 135mm. (image) £30