Brian Hanscomb RE. copper-plate engraver, was born in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire. After an apprenticeship as a letter press engraver, he became a full time artist in 1979.
Inspired by the prints of Samuel Palmer and Edward Calvert, his love of landscape is inherent in his work.
Elected Associate (1991) and Fellow (1997) of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) now Senior Fellow.
Exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, his work is held in prestigious collections including the V&A Museum, Science Museum and Art Gallery, New York Library Print Collection and in the National Gallery of Australia.
He Illustrated books for the Whittingham Press among others.