Bernard Lodge

After studying graphic design at the Royal College of Art, Bernard Lodge joined BBC TV in 1960 where a group of young designers were developing the 'language' of television graphics. During his years there he created title sequences for a wide range of programmes including Man Alive, Out Of The Unknown, The British Empire, The Mind Beyond, Wessex Tales, and the first five versions of Doctor Who.

In the eighties, as partner in Lodge Cheesman Productions he created animated graphics for tv and advertising, exploiting the emerging technology of computer imaging. He also designed effects for the feature films Alien and Bladerunner.

For his work in television graphics he collected a total of five Design and Art Direction Awards and a Royal Television Award. After five years with The Moving Picture Company he made a drastic change of gear: a return to an earlier interest in printmaking. Linocuts and woodcuts became the basis of artwork for a series of children's books for most of which he wrote the text. In 2003 he began to concentrate on editioned prints.

"I tried various printmaking techniques but cutting wood gives me the greatest satisfaction. I use birch plywood, and although it's a fairly rough, fibrous material it obliges me to keep my designs as bold as possible. It was initially the boldness of the German expressionist woodcuts that inspired me. My woodcuts or linocuts - sometimes a combination of both - are printed on an Alexandria press, a large format Victorian platten press."

Exhibitions

2008
6 From Six, Pelham House, Lewes
2007
Politics Pays Back, Kowalsky Gallery, London
2007, 2006, 2005
Brighton Art Fair
2006
Candid Arts, Islington
2006, 2005
Originals, Mall Galleries, London
2005
Art In Action, Oxford