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PainterPrintmakers From top: Christophe Liotard, Tate Modern, London 2013, screenprint | Elizabeth Tomos, CMYK Registrated Ontology, screenprint Ade Adesina, Contradiction, etching | Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin, Coalesce, etching & thread
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FOR ARTS SAKE PRIZE £250 framing prize HAWTHORN PRINTMAKER SUPPLIES AWARD £75 worth of materials HEATHERLY’S OPEN STUDIO PRIZE 10 sessions in the Open Studio worth £240 INTAGLIO PRINTMAKER PRIZE Materials to the value of £150
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RE ORIGINAL PRINTS 2016
EURO 2016 Exhibitions and sporting events bring about expectation. This year sees one of the most anticipated football/soccer competitions in a long time. Three of the ‘Home’ nations are involved in the European Championship finals, and there is great speculation on how far one of our home sides could progress in the competition.
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It brings me back to a starry-eyed time as a child when England1 won the World Cup at Wembley Stadium in London in 1966. I watched the match live from the front room at home on the sofa. Perhaps on recollection I also may have even made some sort of print at school that week!
Some years later and after I had graduated from art school, I was privileged to meet the esteemed British printmaker Michael Rothenstein at his studio in Essex. I was there to select work for a national exhibition and got to talk to him about the beautiful game after I saw one of his prints. He described this particular screenprint (with woodcut, linocut and photo-screen inclusions) from the 1970’s, called ‘Sport’2, in which we see a model girl on a sofa (perhaps watching a game on television) on top a football crowd at the point of a goal being scored, and a goal keeper with outstretched arms. At the heart of this triptych format print, he reminded me that the juxtaposition of disparate elements make for marvelous invention and interpretations of our daily lives. Rothenstein had conjured not only a visually powerful sexual metaphor but employed the process of printmaking as a multidirectional tour de force, combining desire, creativity, attitude, deft process, and daily images into one wonderful graphic celebration. Some years after my afternoon at his studio, I came across Rothenstein’s formative book ’Frontiers of Printmaking; New Aspects of Relief Printing’3. The book was published in 1966 (that famous year in the myth of football) and a number of things tied together, particularly a symmetry of understanding of how art can mirror life, and when that happens it is very good art indeed! In this latest exhibition of contemporary prints we will see many of those expressions of interconnecting process and worldly desire that were so elegantly expressed to me by Rothenstein all those years ago. The following passage from that important book, Frontiers of Printmaking, tends to sum up all that interconnection spirit very well; In recent years printmaking has reached a turning point in its development. Along with other activities, change, a radical change, is taking shape and new streams of vitality are finding their way into the prints studios. Artists are exploring untried ways of expression, and some entirely novel sources of both imagery and printing materials have been uncovered. Although written in 1966! there could be a maxim here for printmaking’s health in 2016 and of course the possibility of bringing home a trophy? Prof. David Ferry RE
William Michael Rothenstein RA, Hon RE (1908 - 1993) was an English printmaker, painter and art school teacher.
1 England 4 Germany 2, FIFA World Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London, 1966; 2 Sport’ Woodcut, linocut, and photo-silkscreen on laid Japanese paper, 1973; 3 Frontiers of Printmaking; New Aspects of Relief Printing, Michael Rothenstein, Studio Vista London, 1966.
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Michael Rothenstein RA Hon RE, Sport, (England, 1973) woodcut, linocut and photo screenprint black and green ink on laid Japanese paper Courtesy of Peter & Renate Nahum | Š Julian Rothenstein
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Exhibition Catalogue
Sumi Perera RE, UNBUILDING BLOCKS -The Matrix, etching, aquatint, off-set relief inking, embossing & incision
From top: Meg Buick ARE, Dog III, lithograph | Neil Bousfield ARE, High Tide Chancers, wood engraving Roy Willingham RE, Spiaggia, digital Inkjet | Linda Landers RE, The Fall of the House of Usher 1, digital print
RE From top left (clockwise): Stephen Mumberson RE, Fear of Knowledge 2, relief print Margaret Ashman RE, Pavane 3, photoetching | David Carpanini RE, Spring Storm in the Val d’Orcia, Toscana, etching
From top: Merlyn Petterson RE, St. Anthony Bank, etching & drypoint | Nana Shiomi RE, Sixty Years, Before and After - ROOM, woodcut Brian Hanscomb RE, Snow Melt on Bodmin Moor, copperplate engraving
Veta Gorner ARE, Supernaturaltethering, etching & lithograph
From top left (clockwise): Martin Ridgwell RE, That Last Summer, etching Lars Nyberg RE, Maev´s Young Avocado, drypoint | Emiko Aida RE, Cheshire, photo transfer aquatint
From top right (clockwise): Julia Midgley RE, Lead Huntsman & Pastry Cutter, etching | Paul Catherall ARE, Gherkin II, linocut Julia Manning RE, Cascade, wood block print | Jackie Newell RE, Procession Through The French Alps, etching | Angie Lewin RE, Shoreline, screenprint
From top: Diarmuid Delargy RE, Shenanigans Supine, lithograph | Masaharu Imamiya ARE, OnomatopĂŠe I, etching Merlyn Chesterman RE, October Waves, woodcut | Kate Dicker RE, Power Station, monotype | Louise Davies RE, Red Meadows, etching
From top: Agathe Sorel RE RWS, Grass and Snakes, digital print | Ros Ford ARE, Footbridge, Sparke Evans Park, etching & aquatint Jenny Robison RE, Infrastructure #2, drypoint | Robert Baggaley RE, Beneath the Cliff, monotype collage
From top left (clockwise): Dale Devereux Barker RE, Watching the Tree, linocut | Ursula Leach RE, The Beauty of Barns, carborundum Sandy Sykes RE, Margin White Legs, woodcut & drawing on constructed paper | Mike Griffiths RE, Distinguishing Marks, screenprint
Martin Langford RE, London, etching
From top: Paul Hawdon RE, Double Glazing, etching | Andrew Stock RE, Starling Trio, etching & aquatint
From top: Anita Klein RE Hon RWS, The Linden Tree, linocut | Judy Willoughby RE, The Procession, monoprint silkscreen Trevor Price VPRE, Great British Eccentrics, drypoint & engraved relief print | Jason Hicklin RE, Old Man of Hoy, Rora Head, ecthing
From top left (clockwise): Peter Ford RE, Echoes, etching on handmade paper | Peter S Smith RE, Colombian Orchid, wood engraving Frans Wesselman RE, Owl III, woodcut | John Duffin RE, Thames, etching
David Ferry RE, Beinn A’ Chilabhain and A’Chir, inkjet print with varnish, glitter & gold leaf
From top: Annie Williams RE, Take Five, aquatint | Hilary Paynter RE, The Great Escape, wood engraving collage Corinna Button RE, The Ins and Outs, etching | Dawson Murray ARE, Drifting III, etching | Richard Bawden RE RWS, Two Cats, etching
‘The theme of landscape in Stephen Lawlor’s work is informed by the history of western painting and in particular the landscapes of Poussin, Claude and Constable. In portraying the human figure he revisits the portrait paintings of Bellini, Holbein, Caravaggio and Van Eyck among others. His work explores the tonal varieties of light and shade. The manipulation of light and dark is achieved by controlling plate tone and overlaying dense areas of aquatint which in turn creates atmosphere and tension.
Stephen Lawlor ARE
Stephen Lawlor ARE, South West, etching and In Memory, etching
MEI CHEI TSENG ARE
The experience of living and studying between Taiwan and Italy gives Mei Chei Tseng sensitiveness to more iconic, conceptual and spiritual kind of images. Italian art has great influences on her way of depicting forms, lights and shadows, and the love for wood engraving derives from her passion for literature and delicate details. Mei Chen Tseng has been practicing wood engraving for more than 10 years and is working as a professional painter and printmaker now.
Mei Chei Tseng ARE, The Last Judgement, wood engraving
“Prints Edward” was the Edward Twohig’s nickname while at Chelsea College of Art where, as a post graduate, He proofed for Eduardo Paolozzi, John Piper, John Hoyland and Tim Mara amongst others. Since then his love for original printmaking has not diminished but intensified and spilled into collecting, lecturing, teaching, curating as well as creating. Twohig is a committed printmaker and admires equally older and contemporary skills in printmaking and never tires of its diversity to bring alive an idea or message.
Edward Twohig ARE Edward Twohig ARE, Swan Lake Berkshire, etching and Easter in Berkshire, etching
Fouzia Zafar describes play as a key concept of her work. Play encompasses repeatedly finding, composing and constructing new tools and processes to explore objects’ history, surfaces, and qualities, whilst also constructing new narratives. During play she explores her themes: the strangeness of memory, family histories, migration and absence. Fouzia’s work flickers between reality and fiction and use of pictorial language and processes. Figureless, her images have a presence of someone/something that is now absent and a playful nostalgic ‘noise’ unfolds.
Fouzia Zafar ARE
Fouzia Zafar ARE, All Clean, etching
From top left (clockwise): Jim Westergard RE, Be Careful, wood engraving | Katherine Jones ARE, Rain Bowl, collagraph and block print John Bryce RE, Castlerigg Stone Circle, wood engraving | Malcom Hole RE, The Settle to Carlisle, wood engraving
From top left (clockwise): Flora McLachlan RE, The Thicket, etching | Sasa Marinkov RE, Up Above, woodcut. Mychael Barratt PRE Hon RWS, The Reading Room, etching
From top left (clockwise): Neil Pittaway RE RWS, Shanghai By Night, etching & aquatint | Judith Jaidinger RE, That Nature Yet Remembers, wood engraving Jane Stobart RE, Watching II, woodcut | Harry Brockway RE, Glazing, wood engraving
From top left (clockwise): Margaret Sellars RE, Fiat Factory Reflected, etching | Hilary Adair RE, Temple of Harmony, Muse & Dancers, etching Anne Desmet RE, Brooklyn Bridge: New Day, wood engraving | Gerry Baptist RE, JAY-CEE Get Me Outta Here!, screenprint Bren Unwin RE, Rockface III, mixed-media monoprint | Mike Middleton RE ARWS, Insel Rugen, etching
From top left (clockwise): Jim Anderson RE, Sargasso, mixed media print | Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez ARE, Aeolus in The Drawing Room, copper etching Louis Hayward RE, Fairford House, engraving on plastic & stencil | Carmen Gracia RE, The Temple of the Sun, the Moon and the Holy Spirit, coloured etching & collage Karen Keogh, Autumn Oak, etching
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Chris Orr RA RE Hilary Paynter PPRE Hon RWS Dr Sumi Perera RE Brian Perrin RE Melvyn Petterson RE Neil Pittaway RWS RE Trevor Price VPRE Vice President Simon Redington RE Philip Reeves PPRSW RE RSA Martin Ridgwell RE Jenny Robinson RE Nana Shiomi RE Peter S Smith RE Agathe Sorel RWS RE Jane Stobart RE Andrew Stock RE Sandy Sykes RE Dr Paul Thirkell RE Glynn Thomas RE Tobias Till RE James G Todd RE George Tute RE Ruth Uglow RE Dr Bren Unwin PPRE Sarah Van Niekerk RE Carol Walklin RE Frans Wesselman RE Jim Westergard RE Annie Williams RWS RE Roy Willingham RE Judy Willoughby RE Joseph Winkelman PPRE Hon RWS Peter Wray RE Giulia Zaniol RE
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