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Joe Winkelman was born in 1941 in Keokuk, Iowa, USA. He took a degree in English at the University of the South, Swanee, Tennessee in 1964 and volunteered for service in Tanzania to teach secondary school with the Peace Corps for two years. He took a post graduate degree at the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania in 1967, then attended the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford University obtaining a certificate in Fine Art in 1971.
He was President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers from 1989 to 1995 and Chairman of the Oxford Art Society from 1987 to 1993. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Watercolour Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Printmakers' Council of Great Britain.
He has won several prizes for his work including the Second International Miniature Print Exhibition in Cadaques, Spain in 1982 and also in Seoul, Korea, both in 1982. In 1998 he was awarded a prize from The Print Club of Albany, New York, USA and in 1985 he received a prize from the RWA.
He has shown his work extensively in the UK and USA as well as in 1995 at the International School of Graphic Art in Venice.
His work is included in notable Public Collections including the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, The Royal Collection, Windsor, the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and the Iowa City Museum of Art. He has received commissions From Sir Isaiah Berlin, Christ Church, Oxford, Balliol College, Oxford and the National Grid, London amongst numerous other clients.
He writes: "Each new image that I make is a discovery. I set out to explore an idea graphically without knowing what results necessarily will be achieved. After laying a wax or aquatint resin ground on the pristine surface of a polished copper plate, I then scratch into it with stylus or mask over areas with varnish in preparation for etching with acid. The plate takes on a life of its own as I create the composition in stages, not intending to reproduce an existing work, but rather responding to the idea that manifests itself with my guidance visually."
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