Submissions NOW OPEN Deadline Sunday 7th March 2021 Fen Ditton Gallery is delighted to announce the launch of its first open submission exhibition for contemporary printmakers, highlighting the exciting work of UK artists working in the field of print. The free-to-enter competition will culminate in an exhibition at the gallery of shortlisted works, with a […]
Continue readingWe are very pleased to invite PMC members to the second in our series of Zoom talks by PMC member Sinclair Ashman Sinclair is a graphic designer and recently became the first Print Fellow at the University of Lincoln in their School of Design. Sinclair works with collagraph and experimental printmaking techniques involving texture, materials, form […]
Continue readingVictoria Johns Facing Time Collagraph OEV 5/10 2020 41 x 45cm (framed) 39 x 47cm (unframed) £185 (framed) £130 (unframed) ‘Facing Time’ is a collagraph print inspired by the aerial views coming into land at a U.S. airport, using the colours, shapes and patterns that can be seen on land and along the waterways. This […]
Continue readingWe are delighted to find a two-page spread on PMC’s Sumi Perera in December’s Printmaking Today https://www.instagram.com/sumi_perera/ https://twitter.com/pererasumi https://www.facebook.com/sumi.perera.71
Continue readingProject overview. Ecologies of change is a collaboration between artists from Australia and the Printmakers Council UK. Supported by the PMC and the Royal Overseas League, the exhibition will be shown at ROSL. The project is curated by Clare Humphries (Australia) and Jacki Baxter and Venessa Pugh (UK). Project Introduction. Ecologies of change invites artists […]
Continue readingAn opportunity to Join us on Zoom with Hilary Rosen RCA, who will talk about her printmaking based on ‘The Three Fates’ in Greek Mythology. Meeting https://zoom.us/j/5363726977 Meeting ID: 536 372 6977
Continue readingIn 2008 Printmakers Council took part in a discussion at the Fine Art Trade Guild to identify common standards that might be applicable to both the original artist’s print and the giclee reproduction print. Artists representing both groups were present and we were told that any agreed statements would be taken by the Fine […]
Continue readingOPPORTUNITY FOR PMC MEMBERS We will be hosting an alternative online COLOUR exhibition for our members who chose not to submit for the Royal Over Seas League exhibition. If you submitted for the COLOUR at ROSL show, please do not submit again. We will select an image from your original submission if you were not […]
Continue readingSubmit your prints on the theme of ‘Colour’
Continue readingAquatint: A means of producing tone, like watercolour, as an addition or an alternative to line in an etching. The plate is covered with melted grains of resin and then put into acid, which bites into the metal around each grain, leaving white dots when printed. Stop-out varnish is used to protect areas during second […]
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