More Exhibitions

I delivered work to the Calder Gallery in Hebden Bridge yesterday for their Original Print Show. This is one of  my favourite galleries and the annual print show is always a pleasure to take part in. The exhibition opens on 1st November and will run until early in the New Year.

On 10th November I will be at the Holmfirth Art Market. This is the first time that I have taken part in this particular event, but I have heard good things about it so I am looking forward to a good time there. There is an Open Evening on Saturday 9th November from 8pm until 10pm and the Market opens on Sunday 10th November at 10am closing at 4pm.

Dipper

Dipper
11 colour Reduction Linocut
190mm x 170mm
Edition of 10.

Finished the print but forgot to photograph most of the intervening stages.

Progress on the next print

With the addition of 4 colours the composition of the new print is starting to become clearer. First a dirty ochre colour which hopefully will give the impression of peat stained water

then a pale blue

followed by a darker blue and then a light grey. There are two stages on this print as I forgot to photograph the 2nd blue.

Windfarm Print

At the End of the Day.

8 Colour Reduction Linocut

174mm x 281mm

Edition of 10. 

Completed the Windfarm print and started another.

Colour 1.

Linocut - next three colours

Three more colours down on the latest print. Each mixed from the original orange colour darkened with increasing amounts of purple.

Stage 5.

Stage 6.

Stage 7.

One more colour to go.

Exhibition News

I have three prints in the Art of Printmaking Exhibition at the Cooper Gallery in Barnsley. Not only a great little gallery, which I have never visited before, but it also has a lovely little cafe. The exhibition is a group show by members of Printmaking on Line and features a range of work across various printmaking techniques. 

I have also delivered some new work to the Craft Centre and Design Gallery in Leeds and this coming weekend sees the opening of an exciting new gallery in Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria, showing the work of contemporary printmakers. The Mere Gallery

Linocut. Colours 2-4

I added a little red to the original yellow mix used for colour 1 and began defining the sky. I had mixed up a lot of this colour, as after the next stage it will be the only colour used on this print. For each subsequent stage I am going to darken the mix using increasing amounts of purple. But first we need a little blue. This colour only appears at the top of the print so I only inked up this part of the block.

Stage 3 looks like this:

Now back to the orange mixed with a little purple.

Stage 4: