About Sean:
Sean Hurley was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1985. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New Hampshire in 2008. Since 2007 he has worked closely with printmaker Don Gorvett, managing Gorvett's studio and gallery first in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and now in Gloucester, MA. Sean has exhibited extensively in the northeast, including Boston, Gloucester, and Provincetown, Massachusetts, The Print Center in Philadelphia, at several venues in New Hampshire, and with a solo show in Biddeford, Maine in 2009. His work may be found in numerous private collections, including the collection of the Boston Athenaeum. He is represented in Gloucester, Massachusetts by Gravure Fine Arts, in Provincetown, Massachusetts by Bowersock Gallery, and in New York City by the Old Print Shop. He is a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists and of the Boston Printmakers. Sean Currently lives and works in Gloucester, MA. For more of his work, visit his website, www.artbysh.com.

About my technique:
My etchings are based exclusively on my own observation and experiences. The prints are drawn from life, sometimes directly onto a grounded plate in the field, otherwise based on drawings which are done on site. The image is then developed in the studio through multiple states, guided by imagination and memory, and once in a while through return visits to the site. The prints are achieved through multiple states, with revisions both additive and subtractive. Occasionally I can finish an image in as little as two or three states but normally the print goes through at least nine or ten states over the course of a few months. The work is almost exclusively achieved through hard ground etching, and normally I do not combine techniques – I find something quite alluring about commanding a pure, relatively limited method to create a diverse and complete image. Aquatint and drypoint do make appearances from time to time, in a limited manner. Most of the prints are etched on copper using ferric chloride; recently I've begun experimenting with some small, direct studies on zinc using nitric acid. All of the impressions are printed personally by me.

-Sean Hurley