All Things Considered

Ed Kluz – Paperworks
Posted by Simon Lewin

We've had the pleasure of working with Ed Kluz for a number of years now - both exhibiting his prints and collages but also working on his range of screen printed fabrics for St. Jude's.

Ed has an exhibition of prints and collages opening at The Idler Academy in London W2 on 22nd May and running until 2nd June 2013. Find out more about the exhibition.

If you're unable to visit this event in London, Ed will be joining us for St. Jude's In The City at The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh opening on Tuesday 2nd July 2013. 

Here are some images from Ed's London show plus the short film we commissioned about the work of this talented illustrator, graphic artist and textile designer.

Posted by Simon Lewin on May 15th, 2013

Autumn Garden, Norfolk
Posted by Angie Lewin

Here's my latest screen print, Autumn Garden, Norfolk.

Growing cultivated and wild plants together often creates a beautifully random effect. This screen print depicts huge papery artichoke flowers, astrantia and miscanthus growing amongst teasels, wild poppies and grasses in my Norfolk meadow garden on a late autumn afternoon.

View on my website or purchase online at St. Jude's Prints.

Posted by Angie Lewin on April 28th, 2013

Michael Kirkman
Posted by Simon Lewin

A final Open Studio recommendation for anyone in or near York over the next couple of weekends...

Printmaker, painter and illustrator Michael Kirkman will be exhibiting a selection of work at 45 Grosvenor Terrace, York.

Having studied at Edinburgh School of Art followed an MA course at the Royal College of Art, Michael is now living and working in York.

Here's a selection of the work he'll be exhibiting as part of York Open Studios 2013.

Posted by Simon Lewin on April 11th, 2013

Mark Hearld
Posted by Simon Lewin

And here are some of pieces Mark Hearld will be exhibiting as part of York Open Studios.

Both Mark Hearld and Emily Sutton will taking part in our next St. Jude's In The City event in Edinburgh in July. If you'd like to attend the opening, sign up for an invitation.

Posted by Simon Lewin on April 11th, 2013

Emily Sutton
Posted by Simon Lewin

If you're anywhere near York over the next two weekends you're in for a treat.

It's time for the 2013 York Open Studios and at 104 The Mount, Emily Sutton and Mark Hearld will be exhibiting a selection of paintings, prints and collage.

Visit on 13th/14th and 20th/21st April (from 10am-6pm on the Saturdays and from 10am -5pm on the Sundays). Full details from the York Open Studios website.

If you're unable to visit, don't forget that you can view a selection of Emily's prints online, plus her fabrics for St. Jude's, Deep Sea and the Elle Deco award winning Curiosity Shop.

Here's some of the work Emily will be exhibiting...

Posted by Simon Lewin on April 10th, 2013

Paul Bommer
Posted by Simon Lewin

Printmaker and illustrator Paul Bommer has an exhibition in Norwich from Friday 12th to Sunday 14th April 2013.

'Sack & Sugar' is a selling exhibition of Paul's limited edition prints and Delft tiles.

Paul is a graduate of the National College of Art & Design in Dublin. Working until quite recently in the East End of London, Paul has now relocated to the wilds of the north Norfolk coast seeking space and new inspiration.

Paul's work is informed by an irreverent humour and a love of character, history and a rich sense of time and place, captured with a deft line. He is currently focussing on limited edition screen prints and decorated ceramics which include limited edition tiles and private fireplace commissions.

If you're unable to visit the exhibition at Yallops Gallery, 59 St. Augustine's Street, Norwich NR3 3BG, we're pleased to offer a selection of Paul's prints over at our online gallery.

Posted by Simon Lewin on April 8th, 2013

Bernard Cheese
Posted by Angie Lewin

We had the pleasure of printmaker Chloe Cheese’s company recently. She was staying with us in Edinburgh, working on images for our forthcoming St. Jude’s In The City exhibition at The Scottish Gallery in July.

A short time after her return south we were saddened to hear from Chloe that her father, the painter and printmaker Bernard Cheese, had passed away.

I was very lucky to be taught by Bernard throughout my three years at Central St. Martin’s in the 1980s. He inspired me in all aspects of printmaking, especially linocut, lithography and the inclusion of collage in my work and was particularly encouraging in the run up to my final show.

Married to Sheila Robinson, Bernard Cheese lived in Great Bardfield in the 1950s, exhibiting regularly in local exhibitions with neighbours Edward Bawden, John Aldridge, Michael Rothenstein and Marianne Straub.

The images below are courtesy of The Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden who hold many of Bernard’s prints in their archives.

And here’s an obituary from The Guardian.

Chloe Cheese will be one of the ten printmakers taking part in our St. Jude's In The City exhibition in Edinburgh in July.

Posted by Angie Lewin on April 2nd, 2013

Sheila Robinson
Posted by Angie Lewin

We had the pleasure of printmaker Chloe Cheese's company last week - she was staying with us whilst working on a print for our St. Jude's In The City exhibition in Edinburgh in July.

The week before we'd received of Chloe's mother Sheila Robinson's illustrated book of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale, The Twelve Dancing Princesses.

This was never published in her lifetime but The Centre for Children's Book Studies at Anglia Ruskin University have worked with the Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden (who hold the original artwork in their archives) to publish the book for the first time, instigated by Professor Martin Salisbury with additional design and retouching by Brian Webb of Webb & Webb Design.

The illustrations - with skilfully varied weight of line and texture - are just beautiful. Where she has applied colour it is in a simple printmakerly way and the delicate script text and drawings are combined to fit a landscape format. The dust jacket is lined with spreads from her original sketchbooks. It's a beautiful piece of print.

Printmaker Chloe Cheese says of the book…

"The beautiful pen and ink drawings and delicate text of this book fascinated me when I was a child and drew me into the enchanted world of the fairy tale.



Although she hoped for publication at the time, she was still a young woman and I think other things, such as working on The Festival of Britain, marrying and having children, took over her life so that this book was put to one side.



The princesses in the boats rowing across the lake in particular is an image that fired my imagination and inspired me to emulate my mother to become an illustrator myself. Looking at this illustration now I admire the lightness of touch and the use of light and shade. The picture still takes me to the edge of the lake and into the story."

Copies can be ordered direct from Anglia Ruskin University. You might also like to visit the Fry Art Gallery website to see more of Sheila Robinson's work.

Posted by Angie Lewin on March 11th, 2013

Burns Miscellany
Posted by Angie Lewin

Jonny Hannah's 'Burns Miscellany' landed on our doormat today with spontaneous drawings printed onto vibrant coloured pages. Timorous Sassanachs that we are, we didn't indulge in traditional the haggis fare last night but are big fans of Tunnocks of all varieties - including Mark Hearld's collage, exhibited at Godfrey & Watt in 2011 (see last image).

You can see more of Jonny's printmaking over at St. Jude's Prints.

Posted by Angie Lewin on January 26th, 2013

Beachcomber
Posted by Angie Lewin

I've recently been looking through past work in plan chests and folders and came across a number of prints that I produced when I started printmaking again in earnest in the 1990s.

'Beachcomber' is a very early wood engraving and really shows the influence of Monica Poole's work. I've suspected that the subject matter in my prints has always been slow to evolve as I draw and redraw objects, trying to capture variations in the insignificant. And what might help explain the 'clutter' in my studio is that I still have the same stones, driftwood and rope that feature in this print - all collected in the Orkneys in the early 1990s.

Posted by Angie Lewin on January 20th, 2013