Trains, Boats and Cranes comes to Peterborough City Gallery

June 3rd - August 6th

John McGowan

Some of you will have known me as an Art Teacher at AMVC. Those fifteen years at the school were the highlight of my teaching career. I made art in my spare time and enjoyed making exemplar prints and paintings to demonstrate a process or project. Retirement in 2007 gave new latitude to my artwork and allowed me to follow my nose in a variety of directions.

Much of that new work was based on local scenes: initially the buildings of Northborough and Glinton. The “Northboro’ Prospect” print was well received and sired an edition of the St. Andrews image to raise funds for Church renovation. In 2013 the local Signal Boxes were my next focus when I discovered that a number of the local railway buildings were due for demolition and there too I became involved with the local activist group who were striving to save the Deeping Box.

I had my first one-man show at John Clare Cottage in the summer of 2014 and later held big exhibitions in the Yarrow Gallery in Oundle and in 2018 at the Alfred East Gallery in Kettering.

In 2023 I was invited to show my work in Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, where there is a strong focus on my Canal prints. The Peterborough exhibition will have more local works and quite a few individual pieces. The three rooms in the gallery give me space to show and explain the different threads of my work and its links to other artist’s work. The City Gallery is at the rear of the Peterborough Museum in Priestgate.

I hope you will take a trip into town and take a look at 50 years of my work. There are lots of original prints for sale (framed and unframed), starting at £10 for a handmade linocut or drypoint. There are cards as well. Monies from the exhibition sales will go to Cancer Research UK

Search “Trains, Boats and Cranes” in YouTube or look at www.johnmcgowanprintmaker.co.uk

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