YICCA Art Contest – Deadline: 14 March 2018
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Continue readingPlease join us for a very special event A talk by Dr. Anne Farrer Texture, Design and Colour: the Reduction Print in Modern China. Please join us on 22 February 2018 for the talk Texture, Design and Colour: the Reduction Print in Modern China by Dr. Anne Farrer, a preeminent expert in Chinese prints, on the occasion of the […]
Continue readingOur opening private view evening was a great success. The event begun with prize winners announced, a variety of print sales made and lots of our members and their contacts admiring the huge number of over 170 artists prints on show in the impressive and spacious Morley Gallery. Wine flowed as did the positive comments […]
Continue reading8 – 30th July 2017 Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent The summer festival was in full swing when we arrived in Deal. A jazz band played in the High Street, as we walked the short distance to Linden Hall Studio, a beautiful contemporary gallery, stunningly converted from an eighteenth century chapel. A sense of light […]
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We are delighted to share the press release from Scarborough Art Gallery regarding the Printmakers Council Print Archive and the upcoming exhibition. Lasting Impressions – a selection of works from the Printmakers Council archive 25 March to 18 June 2017 An exhibition celebrating printmakers and their work, and featuring many prints which have never been […]
Continue readingSomething between you and the materials by Christina France Crews What I love about printmaking is that there’s that there is always something between you and the materials. Unlike working directly onto paper, when you can essentially control where you’ve made the lines or the marks, with printmaking I never know quite what is […]
Continue readingMoth-eaten taxidermy and hybrid lithography by Caroline Whitehead After several years working mainly with silkscreen, I have made most of my recent prints either using various forms of alternative lithography – mokulito (lithography on wood); waterless litho; and so-called “kitchen” litho (using aluminium foil and cola) – or etched linoleum. What all these methods have […]
Continue readingA short account of an afternoon at the Prints and Drawings Study Room, V&A by Emma Buckmaster 16th May 2016 On 16th May I was lucky enough to join a group of PMC members on a visit to the V&A Print Room, organised by Dawn Cole. Gill Saunders, who is the Senior Curator of Prints […]
Continue readingRandom Surface Impressions and Drawn lines By Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin As a printmaker, it is etching on copper that has engaged me the most over the years. By encouraging foul biting on the copper plate, during the etching process, a dialogue is created between random surface impressions and my drawn lines. It is always exciting to clean […]
Continue readingA SIXTIES PRESSURE GROUP: FIFTY YEARS OF THE PRINTMAKERS COUNCIL by Michael Kennedy The Printmaker’s Council, largely the initiative of printmaker, painter and teacher Michael Rothenstein, had its origins in a series of informal meetings in the early 1960’s, some of which were held at his London flat and others either at Bertorelli’s restaurant […]
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