Kit Boyd's work explores our relationship with landscape and our place in nature. He identifies closely with British romantic artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. He aims to create images that offer a refuge from the frantic modern world where media and technology conspire against quietude and contemplation and distance our connection to nature. However, he believes the pastoral idyll can continue to co-exist with advances in technology, and some of his prints consequently show figures using laptops or mobiles in a natural landscape.
As a painter who has moved into printmaking, Kit enjoys hand colouring his etchings and creating linocuts in variable editions to alter mood and atmosphere. His recent linocuts have been in response to life in London, and the need to find those quiet places in or around the city where greenery can give some solace. His decorative compositions have an underlying environmental message or mysterious feeling, where the figure is incidental to the beauty and magic of nature.
Kit studied at Aberystwyth University. He is a member of East London Printmakers, Printmakers Council and Greenwich Printmakers Association. His work has been published in several books and commissioned as record covers, a book cover and publicity posters. He has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions and has work in public collections including the V&A Museum.
