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Sir Peter Blake Heidi Kรถnig Kathleen Caddick Donald Hamilton Fraser Deborah Treliving David Hockney Chris Orr Henry Moore
Celebrating a decade of British fine art original prints
JUNE - AUGUST | Moving through the summer with a series of selected works from our best selling artists
Also including: Volume one of the Mending Broken Hearts portfolios | Breath of Life
Foreword 10 years ago, living in London and only a second time visitor to Budleigh Salterton, I sat on a wooden bench in the window of the Brook Gallery and there began a dream… Here I am, now the proud owner of that same gallery celebrating some of the best exhibitions during that time. The last 10 years has seen the gallery developing into an authority on Original Prints and a resource for local artists and art lovers alike. We are fortunate to have great relationships with some of the best artists and publishers in the country, which allows us to bring the varied and exciting collections to Devon that we do. This summer is testament to that – we just could have done with longer in order to fit in all of our successes. I hope you enjoy browsing through our brochure which will give you a good idea of our schedule over the summer. The website will give an up-to-date guide as to what is available at any point. Obviously there are more pieces that we could incorporate in the booklet and many are mono-prints or end-of-edition, so not always available in quantities! You’ll see from the flyer, as well as fantastic art, we are hosting a variety of events over the course of the summer which we hope you will be able to join us for. Kathleen Caddick and Heidi König will be joining us for an afternoon each. Our dear friend and generous supporter Professor Chris Orr will be joining us for our summer party and giving a talk on the subject on which he is a complete authority – printmaking – and Anthony Frost, with all of his energy and Joie de Vivre, will return to Budleigh with two thespian colleagues to perform ‘Art’ (The Reading) after his very successful exhibition at the gallery earlier this year. The year will draw to a close with an exhibition of the British Illustrators over the last 200 years during the Literary Festival in September, we will then move into October with a preview of Norman Ackroyd’s 2010 box set and close the year with an exhibition of Japanese prints featuring the work of Nana Shiomi amongst others. I would like to thank Chris for his contribution to the catalogue, Molly and Adrian for putting their passion to paper, and for all of our contributing artists and friends who make the Brook Gallery what it is today. Angela Yarwood: Proprietor of the Brook Gallery, May 2010
Sir Peter Blake I Love You - black diamond dust Limited edition silkscreen print Published: 2010 Image size: 1210mm x 250mm Paper size: 1360mm x 420mm Edition size: 175 £1,650
I Love You - white undusted Limited edition silkscreen print Published: 2010 Image size: 1210mm x 250mm Paper size: 1360mm x 420mm Edition size: 175 £995
Found Art Union Jack II Digital Print Published: 2010 Image size: 1070mm x 700mm Framed size: 1280mm x 1080mm Edition size: 25 £4,200
Sir Peter Blake's latest release: I Love You is a set of four limited edition silkscreen prints, each available individually and as a set. Blake uses collaged letters taken from different sources to spell out the immortal words I Love You. These works reflect a sentiment and warmth that is inherent throughout the artist's work. His use of mismatching letters from different sources is a classic motif in his oeuvre, reflecting his love of collage and collecting. Signed limited edition silkscreen prints. 15 colours. Gold and silver leaf, embossing, diamond dust.
Heidi König It's all about us Original monotype Image size: 395mm x 330mm Image size is paper size Printed on Somerset £475
Bounce Original monotype Image size: 395mm x 330mm Size is image size, 8 cm border Printed on Somerset £475
Memories of Marrakesh Original monotype Image size: 395mm x 330mm Size is image size, 8 cm border Printed on Somerset £475
We have seen the most vibrant and stimulating use of colour in Heidi König's work over the time that we have been lucky enough to display it in the gallery. Heidi was brought up and educated in Germany but was first introduced to printing through her grandfather who produced many woodcuts and linocuts. Her inspiration comes largely from travel, having come to Britain after travelling around Australia and South East Asia. Since completing her studies at Brighton and the Slade School of Fine Art, Heidi has received numerous awards and commissions for her work. Her monotypes, etchings and paintings can be found in public and private collections all over the world.
Kathleen Caddick A Walk through the Wood Etching Published: 1982 Image size: 340mm x 320mm Framed size: 630mm x 560mm Edition : A/P XIV/XV £350
Winter Flowers Etching Published: 1984 Image size: 270mm x 340mm Framed size: 530mm x 580mm Edition : 75/75 £290
Reflections Etching Published: 1995 Image size: 340mm x 320mm Framed size: 630mm x 560mm Edition : XX/XXV £390
Kathleen Caddick was born in 1937 in Liverpool but grew up in Buckinghamshire. Having studied at High Wycombe School of Art she worked as a graphic design lecturer and was an examiner for City & Guilds before she started to paint full-time in 1968. Kathleen published her first etching in the late 1970's. Her natural style of concise line and delicate hand colouring greatly lend themselves to etching, her chosen medium, and have rightly won her an international following. Her prints have been exhibited and sold throughout Europe and the rest of the world.
Donald Hamilton Fraser Wester Ross Silkscreen print Published: 2008 Image size: 660mm x 495mm Paper size: 850mm x 690mm Edition size: 175 £ 750.00
Kinlochbervie Red Sky Limited edition silkscreen print Published: 2009 Image size: 563mm x 436mm Paper size: 710mm x 610mm Edition size: 175 £650.00
Yellow Spinnaker Seascape silkscreen Published: 2003 Image size: 430mm x 560mm Paper size: 735mm x 620mm Edition size: 195 £450.00
Donald sadly passed away in September 2009. He exhibited his highly acclaimed work in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Zurich and many other cities around the world. The list of galleries that own or have exhibited his work is phenomenal. Donald participated in many of the most significant exhibitions of British work including the Royal Academy's 25 Years of British Painting, where he was also a Royal Academician and a trustee since 1995. Donald's predominant subject matter was landscape. Here he combined his Scottish decent and his affinity with French painting from his study there in the 1950's. This is greatly reflected in his style and execution.
Deborah Treliving Duet I Monotype Image size: 750mm x 580mm Edition size: 1/1 £750
New Horizon 2 Monotype Image size: 750mm x 580mm Edition size: 1/1 £750
Sunflower Monotype Image size: 750mm x 580mm Edition size: 1/1 £750
Deborah’s training in Fine Art, painting and printmaking was at Bath Academy of Art, where her print tutors were Jack Shirreff, etching, and Stephen Russ, screenprinting. Following her graduation she taught Art and Design in Bromley, and then printmaking for 18 years in the School of Art and Design at South Devon College. She printed at the Dartington print-workshop for six years from 1996, and became a Member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen in 1998. Exhibiting her work in Japan & her visit there had a profound influence on her subsequent work, resulting in exhibitions across Devon during 2001. Most recently Deborah is known for her vibrant collagraph and carborundum prints. The rich texturing of her plates results in a tactile quality to her prints, which are frequently embellished with hand-colouring. Her passion for colour is evident in her New Horizons portfolio which is only available through The Brook Gallery.
BHF Mending Broken Hearts | Vol 1 Breath of Life Soulless Stars Cascade By John Hoyland Published: 2010 Image size: 585mm x 760mm Edition size: 150 £1,100
Healing Garden By Bruce McLean Published: 2010 Image size: 585mm x 760mm Edition size: 150 £950
Love Hearts By Brad Faine Published: 2010 Image size: 585mm x 760mm Edition size: 150 £500
Clare's Inspiration By Maurice Cockrill Published: 2010 Image size: 585mm x 760mm Edition size: 150 £600
Calypso By Brendan Neiland Published: 2010 Image size: 585mm x 760mm Edition size: 150 £600
Madonna and Heart By Duggie Fields Published: 2010 Image size: 585mm x 760mm Edition size: 150 £600
Take Art for the Heart By Tom Phillips Published: 2010 Image size: 585mm x 760mm Edition size: 150 £700
A selection of Volume I of the Mending Broken Hearts portfolios: Breath of Life. Comprises of 15 original limited edition silkscreen prints by a unique group of Britain's leading contemporary artists. Each artwork has been created around the theme of ‘mending broken hearts’. All profits from sales will be donated to the British Heart Foundation. Volume II: Joie de Vivre is due to be released in early 2011. Artworks are available individually or as part of a beautifully presented boxed set.
Hockney, Orr, Moore When I first read the roster for this show at the Brook Gallery, I mistakenly read it as “Hockney or Moore.” I was plagued at school with that joke “Orr what?” It`s true that David Hockney has never made sculpture nor Henry Moore made highly coloured work, but this is the age of the coalition and they are both superb printmakers. Realising eventually that I was alongside these two illustrious artists, not just a conjunction, I got to thinking about my maxim; “all Art aspires to Sculpture”. My idea is that whether it is a Painting, Sculpture or Print, it has to stand up. It has to be made so that it doesn’t fall over in both the physical and emotional sense. So, hopefully I will be upstanding with some of my latest efforts. For me it has been the year of returning to an old love - lithography. Like many old loves it can be highly unpredictable. The process of drawing on large blocks of limestone (average age 150 million years) has to be done in the workshop and is more akin to performance art. The processing of stones to make them ready to print can be affected by humidity, temperature or unseen genies. Printing lithographs is hard skilled work. The reason that artists have indulged in this process is for those who love to draw it provides the greatest fidelity to their intentions and when all the variables go right, wonderful works of art can be created. Chris Orr, May 2010
David Hockney He Tore Himself in Two 1969 From Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brother’s Grimm Etching Image size: 446mm x 297mm Edition size: 100 £1,750
Pleading for the child, 1969 From Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brother’s Grimm Etching Image size: 267mm x 255mm Paper size: 455mm x 310mm Edition size: 100 £1,880
Etching is the Subject, 1966-1967 From The Blue Guitar portfolio Etching, softground etching, and aquatint on Inveresk mould-made paper Image size: 345mm x 425mm Paper size: 460mm x 530mm Edition size: 200 £3,525
David Hockney was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1937 to a working class family. He went on to have a prize-winning career as a student at the Royal College of Art. By his mid-20s, Hockney had already become one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary artists in Britain. David Hockney's early reputation was established almost as much by his printmaking as his painting. His early etchings, such as Marriage and Grimm's Fairy Tales, demonstrated his extraordinary skill as a draughtsman; his subsequent career as a printmaker has shown him to be equally versatile in his use of medium as he is experimental in his artistic approach.
Chris Orr Eden, Ark and Evolution Etching with hand colouring Published: 2009 Image size: 600mm x 800mm Edition size: 30 £800
Black Dog Looking West Paper cut and drypoint Published: 2009 Image size: 550mm x 780mm Edition size: 10 £800
Lambeth Etching Published: 2009 Image size: 690mm x 750mm Edition size: 40 £750
Born in Islington, London, Chris graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1967 with an MA in printmaking. He began his career as an artist publishing prints, exhibiting his work and teaching part-time at many Art Schools. His subjects are varied but behind much of his work is a story from which the work was inspired. The last 15 years have seen significant national recognition of Chris’s work; in 1995, Chris was elected a Royal Academician and in 1998 was appointed Professor of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art. Chris was awarded an MBE in the 2008 Honours List and also awarded a Senior Fellowship and Professor Emeritus from the Royal College of Art.
Henry Moore Reclining Figure | Plate 4, 1977 From ‘The Reclining Figure’ Portfolio 1977-1978 Etching and aquatint Image size: 541mm x 445mm Edition size: 25 £2,500
Elephant Skull Plate XI, 1969 Skull sideview – Jaw articulation Etching Image size: 254mm x 200mm Edition size: 100 £1,000
Reclining Figure Architectural Background IV, 1977 Screenprint Image size: 314mm x 377mm Edition size: 100 £1,950
Henry Spencer Moore was born on July 30, 1898, in Castleford, Yorkshire. Despite an early desire to become a sculptor, Moore began his career as a teacher in Castleford. After military service in World War I he attended Leeds School of Art on an ex-serviceman's grant. He was best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore's works are usually suggestive of the female body, apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups. Many interpreters liken the undulating form of his reclining figures to the landscape and hills of his birthplace, Yorkshire.
Definitions of printing terms Carborundum
A fine abrasive grit glued to the plate, which holds the ink. Printed intaglio.
Chine-collĂŠ
Previously glued Japanese papers adhere to the printing paper at the time of printing, as the inked plate is wound through the press.
Collagraphs
The plate, of card, Perspex or PVC, is built up using various materials, including sand, metal, plaster, different glues, collaged papers which are glued and sealed, before being inked up and printed. Printing can be intaglio and/or relief.
Collagraph-collĂŠ
Previously printed Collagraphs are collaged to Somerset paper.
Edition
The agreed total number of any one image printed by the artist. Each print is numbered in a certain way; e.g. 5/10 would indicate print number 5 out of an edition of 10 prints. A/P indicates Artist’s proof. This is in addition to the numbered edition.
Intaglio
The image is bitten by acid or cut with a tool into metal or plastic. The whole surface of the plate is inked, and wiped clean but leaving the ink in the cut lines below the surface. Dampened paper is placed over the inked up plate which is then wound through the printing press. Printing requires greater pressure than that used in relief printing.
Linocut
A method of obtaining a relief print by cutting, or etching with caustic soda, into a piece of lino.
Monoprint
Only one print is taken from the worked plate.
Monotype
A unique image is made on a metal or Perspex plate by painting with oil based inks, and printed onto paper using an etching press. Only one print is possible from each image.
Original prints
Artists' prints should not be confused with reproductions, which are sometimes sold as prints and are only photomechanical copies of an artist's original work.
Relief printing
On wood or lino the image is created by cutting away areas to be left white. The remaining raised areas are inked with a roller and then the paper placed on top. It is printed using light pressure in a press or by burnishing the back of the paper with a barren.
Screen printing
A stencil is created on fine mesh on a screen. Ink is pulled through the mesh using a squeegee onto the paper underneath.
Tapa
This is a Polynesian paper, and comes from the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree.
Viscosity
Inks are mixed with different oils to apply colour to different levels of the plate, producing exciting colour juxtapositions.
Woodcut
A relief print made on side-grain soft wood. Knives, woodcutting tools, and chisels are used to cut away the areas to remain white. Woodcuts are bold and should not be confused with wood engravings, which are much finer and made by cutting across the end grain of hard wood.
Words from a collector... There's no doubt about it. The Brook Gallery is a really dangerous place. It ought to have Government Health Warning or some sort of ASBO. No. It's not the staff. They're great. Kindness personified. And the coffee's great. It's the stuff on the walls you have to watch out for. It's like they're calling you over: “Look at me”, they seem to be saying, “Am I not super? I'm an original print in a limited edition. I was made by .........” (Insert here name of artist, e.g. Gill, Matisse, Miro, Kandinsky, Picasso... the list is endless.) “There's only about 3 copies of me left at £.... a throw so I'm an absolute snip. You simply must have me. OK, I know I didn't cost you £27 million, but I'm still the real thing and NO I'm not a bl**dy poster!” So there you are. The next thing you know you've got a house full of prints and the names on your wall remind you of the index to The Shock of the New † and you've become a registered caffeine addict into the bargain. So, just give in. You can only harm your bank balance and the way things are going it would be a good idea to spend your money before it's taken off you anyway. Molly and Adrian Lee, May 2010 † Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change (Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1991) pp448.
…and not forgetting, Terry Frost, Anthony Frost, Norman Ackroyd, Eileen Cooper, Paula Rego, Mychael Barratt, Trevor Price, Julia Manning, Anita Klein, Gail Brodholt, Susie Perring, Sonia Rollo, and all our other wonderful artists.
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