This Friday sees the opening of Emily Sutton and Mark Hearld's latest exhibition at their York home.
The duo will be exhibiting new drawings, paintings, collages, prints and ceramics. The opening event will run from 6-9pm on Friday 15th April 2016 and doors will then be open 10-6 on Saturday 16th April, 11-5 on Sunday 17th April and then the following Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th April 2016. Visit the exhibition at 104 The Mount, York YO24 1AR.
We'll post further images of the work exhibited soon. In the meantime, if you're not able to visit you might like to explore our website for fabrics and prints by Emily and Mark. Both artists will be exhibiting at St Jude's exhibitions in Yorkshire and London later in 2016. Sign up for our e-mail newsletter for details of these events.
We'll post soon on the making of the poster created for the exhibition (see below) at Tilley Print in Ledbury.
Emily Sutton 'The Yellow Fireplace' watercolour drawing
Mark Hearld 'Lapwings' Nest' collage
Emily Sutton 'The Golden Seahorse' drawing
Mark Hearld 'Swan Flight' collage
Emily Sutton 'Lumber Room Jug' watercolour drawing
Mark Hearld 'Redshank' collage
Emily Sutton and Mark Hearld's letterpress poster, printed at Tilley Print in Ledbury
Over the coming months we look forward to sharing news of a series of publications, events, films and interviews which celebrate the craft of print.
We'll be looking at the work of printmakers, editioning studios and specialist printers who are all experts in their chosen field.
A few years back Cristian Barnett visited Angie Lewin's studio to photograph her at work. The resulting short film (showing the creation of Angie's 'Winter Spey' wood engraving) and photographs (of her 'Teasel' limited edition print) can be seen here.
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Angie Lewin creates her 'Teasels' limited edition wood engraving
An exhibition celebrating the work of Richard Bawden has just opened at The Fry Gallery in Saffron Walden.
Perhaps best know for his paintings and prints, Richard is also a designer, whose work includes book illustration, posters, murals, mosaics, textiles, engraved glass, furniture and cast iron seats (for which he cut the patterns himself).
Richard's paintings are drawn from life, and as a printmaker he works predominantly in etching and lino. He studied at the Royal College of Art, has had over sixty one-man exhibitions at home and abroad, and has work in Royal, public and private collections.
Richard Bawden at 80 runs until 12th June 2016 at The Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden. Visit their website for details of opening times.
'Hedgerow' linocut
'Pink Eyes' etching
'Toucan in the Study' watercolour
'Winter Still Life' etching
'Dodo' linocut
Parallel//Paysage is an exhibition of new work by Rachel Duckhouse and Bronwen Sleigh. In October 2014 they travelled to Quebec City for an exchange exhibition between Glasgow Print Studio and Engramme. While there they undertook a research trip travelling through Quebec, Labrador and Newfoundland funded by the Bet Low Trust. This latest exhibition presents the divergent responses of these two artists to their shared experience of the same landscapes through printmaking, drawing and sculpture.
Parallel//Paysage runs from 9th April to 1st May 2016 at Glasgow Print Studio. You can find out more about Bronwen and Rachel's collaboration via their blog Multiple//Parallel.
A detail from one of Bronwen's etchings
Bronwen editions a new lithograph print
A detail from Rachel's pen and ink drawing 'Saguenay ii'
One of Bronwen's etching plates
Rachel inks up her 'Black Wood' linocut
Rachel's 'Black Wood' linocut and 'White Wood' pen and ink drawing
Pages from one of Rachel's sketchbook
Life is But a Dream, Jonathan Gibbs' solo exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh continues until 27th January 2016.
Jonathan has lived and worked in Scotland for many years but acknowledges the importance of the “churches, fields, shorelines and elements of landscape from East Norfolk, where my family comes from”.
Having trained at Central School of Art and Design and the Slade School of Fine Art, in addition to the creation of new work for regular exhibitions Jonathan is a Head of Illustration at the Edinburgh College of Art.
Writing about Jonathan’s 2006 ‘Flint & Straw’ exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery, Alan Powers suggests that “at first sight, his paintings and engravings evoke a mid-twentieth-century mood, suggestive of territory between Ben Nicholson and Eric Ravilious – fastidious, linear and deeply sensitive to place”.
Jonathan will be taking part in our forthcoming Editions & Objects exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park from 25th June until 30th October 2016. Sign up for our e-mail newsletter for details.
You might also like to see Jonathan's fabric for St Jude's, Herring Moon.
Jonathan Gibbs 'The Baite VI' wood engraving
A wood engraving in progress in Jonathan Gibbs' studio
Jonathan Gibbs 'Owl and Moon' wood engraving
Jonathan Gibbs 'Vessel and Curtain' oil on canvas and board
Previously cut wood blocks in Jonathan Gibbs' studio
Jonathan Gibbs 'Swallow and Dyke' wood engraving
Jonathan Gibbs' studio
Jonathan Gibbs 'Mellis Moat Man' wood engraving
Jonathan Gibbs' latest solo exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh opens on 9th January 2016.
Life is But a Dream features a selection of work inspired by his sabbatical leave from his role as Programme Director at Edinburgh College of Art last year. Within this time Gibbs studied riverine literature, songs, and imagery as well as travelling to Italy, India, and Norfolk to further his practice. Whilst in Venice, Gibbs paid great attention to Jacopo de’ Barbari’s woodblocks, used for his infamous ‘Map of Venice’, which inspired Gibbs to start working on a larger scale.
Known for his distinctive approach to illustration through printmaking, this exhibition includes a range of woodcuts with new paintings on mahogany, canvas or oak, and additional pencil drawings. The exhibition is titled ‘Life is But a Dream’ after the largest and most ambitious work in the exhibition, consisting of a woodcut over 4 meters long; a direct response to the children’s nursery rhyme ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’. The original bloc used for creation will also be on display in the gallery.
The exhibition runs from 9th to 27th January 2016 at Open Eye Gallery, 34 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh EH3 6QE. Find out more
Jonathan Gibbs 'The Baite II' wood engraving
Jonathan Gibbs 'Night Kitchen II' oil and gesso on wood
Jonathan Gibbs 'Kindrochet Still Life' wood engraving
Jonathan Gibbs 'The Baite IV' wood engraving
Jonathan Gibbs 'La Citié' wood engraving
Jonathan Gibbs 'A Store of Gifts' oil and gesso on wood
Edinburgh's Open Eye Gallery’s first exhibition of 2016 will celebrate their 35th anniversary, presenting the work of over 50 artists represented by the gallery.
The exhibition runs from 9th to 27th January 2016 at Open Eye Gallery, 34 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh EH3 6QE. Find out more
Here are a few of favourite works that feature in the exhibition...
‘Pole Star’ by Alex Malcolmson
Mixed media box construction - 59 x 45 x 6cm (open)
'Goshawk (From Life)' by Mick Manning
Mixed media - 40 x 50cm
'Before Winter' by Tom Mabon
Oil on board - 20 x 30cm
'Apple Crumble' by Brita Granström
Acrylic on canvas - 50 x 50cm
'Cluny, From Blackford Hill' by Catherine Davison
Oil on board - 40 x 45cm