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Featured Artist

Jonnie Turpie MBE

Covid Restrictions into meeting people and venturing out have curtailed printmaking which in my case is primarily Silkscreen Portraiture.  Early lockdown experiments with digital print resulted in some valuable results using inkject on Hahnemühle digital paper. (Image: Surface Tensions; digital print. 297x 420)

The Autumn break in lockdown offered a short opportunity to make two portraits using hand-made textured surfaces on acrylic sheet with sandpaper and Carborundum grit to draw into make screen positives which were printed in the Birmingham School of Art with master printmaker Justin Sanders..

Image: Caroline Magenta. 2020, silkscreen 840×1180

During the recent lockdown inspiration from Jim Dine’s 1970’s Hand tools prints (@jimdinestudio) got me thinking that the 21st Century equivalent tools might be removable computer hard discs. With their connection leads they have their own visual status, different to the material metal quality of Dine’s tools, but are physical boxes holding hidden discs with untold hidden data. The hard disc containers are rapidly becoming extinct as data is directed to distant cloud homes and perhaps are in need of a little celebration before they are forgotten.

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Web: printsanew.jonnieturpie.com.

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Philomine Wales talks to PMC members - 20th Apr at 6.30pm

The next in our informative series of Zoom talks will take place on Tuesday 20 April at 6.30pm.

Philomine Wales will be showing us examples of her work, explaining how she creates her prints and the inspiration she finds for them. Philomine worked as an architect for 40 years before studying printmaking at Morley College.  She is a member of East London Printmakers and the Printmakers Council.  Her work is deeply rooted in landscape and explores the intrinsic sense of place, whether this is real, imagined or remembered.  The effect of time, especially on found material, often acts a starting point for her work.

The talk will take place on Zoom on Tuesday 20 April at 6.30pm. There will be a Q&A session at the end of Philomine’s talk for members to ask her about her printmaking practice and the matters arising from her talk.

To participate in the Zoom meeting, you will need to have the Zoom app installed on your computer, tablet or phone. You will then need to click on the following link at the time the talk is scheduled to begin at 6.30pm on Tuesday 20 April: Please note: the talk will be recorded for a variety of public platforms.  If you do not wish to appear, you will need to turn off your video and audio before the start of the talk.

We look forward to seeing you on 20 April at 6.30pm.

Previous talks include:

Hilary Rosen’s ‘The Three Fates’.

Sinclair Ashman‘s ‘Collagraphs and 3D Work on Paper’

Stan Peach ‘Mezzotints‘

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