Inger Lawrance was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1930 but has lived in the UK since 1950. However, it wasn’t until the 1960’s that Inger took her DIPAD in Painting & Printing here in S.E. London at Goldsmith’s College, followed by a post-graduate course in Metal Constuction. Interestingly at Goldsmith’s her tutors included Kenneth Martin, who along with Yuriko’s husband, Anthony, was one of the founders of the Constructivist movement in this country, and Peter Lowe, another constructivist and friend of the Hills.

In 1984 Inger was awarded a Churchill Memorial Travelling Fellowship, studying woodblock printing techniques in Japan and the U.S.A. and she also had her first solo exhibitions in Cologne and Tokyo at around the same time.

Since then Inger, whose work is included in the V&A Museum collection, has continued to exhibit both in the United Kingdom and abroad. Her solo exhibits include one at the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh and more recently one at the Teiko University of Japan in the N.E. of England near to where she currently has her studio. (O.K. Durham is a little way from Berwick-on- Tweed but it’s all north of Watford!)

In talking about her work, Inger says that it has to be described as abstract; but her ideas arise from what she sees and feels especially about elements from the natural world, such as seas, rocks and trees, which fascinate her. She says that she tries to use all materials to their best advantage and when cutting a woodblock feels it is important that she uses lines and points in the wood for the printed image.

Inger, has produced a series of woodblock prints for this exhibition and will be exhibiting these alongside two oil paintings that relate to these and the two "Artist Books" that will also be on display. These books are titled "Basho - Sixteen Haiku" and "From the Tale of the Heike" with woodcuts by Inger and produced by her at her Windmill Hole Studio.