Suzanne Richard Calver Lino-cut Prints 15 x 11 Available: $1500.00 Includes Frame	Cormorant Richard Calver 1989 Lino-cut Prints 17 1/2 x 14 1/2 Available: $1650.00 Includes Frame	Paper Boy Richard Calver 1993 Stencil Print 18 1/2 x 14 Available: $1950.00 Includes Frame
Bondi Palm Richard Calver 1998 Lino-cut Prints 21 x 12 1/2 Available: $1800.00 Includes Frame	Symplo II Richard Calver circa 1993 Lino-cut Prints 12 1/2 x 9 Available: $1125.00 Includes Frame	Sunflower Richard Calver 1991 Lino-cut Prints 17 x 11 Available: $1275.00 Includes Frame
Preening Richard Calver 1994 Lino-cut Prints 10 1/4 x 14 Please inquire regarding price.	Marcy Richard Calver circa 1989 Lino-cut Prints 13 x 11 Available: $1125.00 Includes Frame	Tsolum River Richard Calver 2005 Lino-cut Prints 9 x 7.5 Available: $475.00 Includes Frame

Richard Calver

Richard Calver was born in Oxfordshire, England in 1946.  At the age of nineteen Calver immigrated to Canada settling in Quadra, B.C. While in his thirties a turning point in his life came when he met the well known print maker Sybil Andrews. Inspired and encouraged by his mentor, Richard became more serious about his art and soon purchased his own lino tools. Under Andrew's guidance Calver's style blossomed and matured.

Natural forms are the foundation of many of his most striking prints. A part-time gardening enthusiast, Calver brings this passion into the botanical images seen in his prints  "Thistle", "Dandelion", "Sun Flowers", and "Skunk Cabbage".The effect of movement achieved through the use of strong diagonals and undulating lines is also an important component in all his compositions. Lino-cut prints are created through a laborious process. As each colour is printed individually, each image may be printed from as many as four or five blocks. Each block must be registered to align perfectly. Printing one individual image (of which there may be an edition of fifty or sixty prints) can take as long as a day.

Calver continues to live and work from his home on Quadra Island.