All Things Considered

Mark Hearld – An Introduction
Posted by Simon Lewin

Here's a film I've made about Mark Hearld's work, based on an interview with him that we recorded up in Scotland earlier in the year. You can view at full size over at YouTube.

Posted by Simon Lewin on October 27th, 2011

Stony Track
Posted by Angie Lewin

Here's one of the new prints that will be exhibited at my show with Rob Ryan in Cambridge which opens this week.

Stony Track is a screenprint inspired by time spent during my residency at Cortijada Los Gázquez in June.

The wild flowers in the Andalucian mountains were amazing. Beside a track lined with pines I spotted these purple-blue tassel hyacinths growing with phlomis in the stony earth.

The exhibition opens at 6.30pm on Friday 28th October at Cambridge Contemporary Art and runs until 20th November 2011.

Further copies of the edition will be available online from St. Jude's soon after.

Posted by Angie Lewin on October 25th, 2011

Rob Ryan
Posted by Simon Lewin

Here's a great little film about Rob Ryan and his work.

You can view a selection of tiles and prints over at our online store.

Rob will be exhibiting in Cambridge later this month in a joint exhibition with Angie.

Posted by Simon Lewin on October 12th, 2011

Return To Essex
Posted by Simon Lewin

Return to Essex is a new exhibition of illustration, printmaking and watercolour by artist Chloe Cheese at The Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden. The artist was brought up in Essex and has returned to the county in recent months to create the pieces especially for this exhibition.

In her preparation Chloe explains “I did not want to draw a series of “views”, more a collection of work which reflects my memory of living in Essex.” In the work, full of vitality and colour she has focussed on the town of Saffron Walden where she grew up as well as venturing further afield to paint watercolours of Debden and Clacton, and a lithograph of a Great Bardfield cat.

The artist Mark Hearld says of Chloe’s work:

“In the fluent spontaneity characteristic of Chloe's work, watercolour washes or lithographic tone provide the perfect foil for her own beautiful line, at times precise or spindly, elegant or unfettered in its expression. Line brings terrific vitality to her image making (so that) the impression of energy and movement is present.

"If line brings vitality, colour brings richness of depth, place, season or a sense of the time of day… the urge to list colour combinations is tempting, but so much richer the impact of seeing them on paper.”

Chloe Cheese RCA MA was born in 1952. She studied at Cambridge Art School and then at the Royal College of Art. She has exhibited at galleries worldwide and has work in public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Arts Council of Great Britain. Chloe has also worked as a freelance illustrator with clients including The Sunday Times, Terence Conran at Habitat and Comme des Garcons, Japan.

Chloe lived for some of her early years in Great Bardfield, Essex, where her family were close friends of Edward Bawden, a friendship which was maintained until Bawden's death in 1989. Chloe is represented in the Fry Art Gallery's North West Essex Collection alongside her parents, Bernard Cheese and Sheila Robinson.

The exhibition runs from 24th September until 30th October 2011 at The Fry Art Gallery, Castle Street, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1BD. Open Tues, Fri, Sun (and Bank Holidays) 2-5pm; Saturdays 11am-5pm Tel: 01799 513779

Posted by Simon Lewin on September 20th, 2011

John Byrne
Posted by Simon Lewin

We went along to the opening of John Byrne's solo exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh last night.

'Moonlight & Music' - which coincides with the publication of his Lund Humphries biography - features paintings, drawings and etchings, including artwork from Donald & Benoit.

The exhibition runs until 5th September 2011 at the Open Eye Gallery, 34 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh EH3 6QE.

Posted by Simon Lewin on August 13th, 2011

Lineage
Posted by Angie Lewin

Currently showing at Edinburgh Printmakers is this exhibition of new and recent editions by Michael Craig-Martin, Ian Davenport (see below) and Julian Opie.

The prints on show have been published by Alan Cristea Gallery in London and explore the use of the line, whether drawn or dripped, cut out or printed.

The exhibition runs until 3rd September 2011 at Edinburgh Printmakers, 23 Union Street, Edinburgh EH1 3LR.

Posted by Angie Lewin on August 6th, 2011

Michael Papworth
Posted by Angie Lewin

I've just spent an inspiring week at Edinburgh Printmakers trying to master the alchemy of stone lithography. This makes it easier to appreciate the title of Michael Papworth's one-man exhibition at Gallery Plus in Norfolk, 'Grease and Water', opening on the 5th of August and running until 21st August 2011.

For several years Michael worked alongside a wide range of artists as a skilled studio printmaker at the renowned Curwen Studio.

Michael's lithographs portray the English countryside and the show will feature new work based on the North Norfolk Coast.

Posted by Angie Lewin on July 30th, 2011

Sophie Elm
Posted by Simon Lewin

Our friend Sophie Elm has an exhibition coming up at Rural Arts in Thirsk, running from 1st August to 21st September 2011.

Here are a couple of examples of the work Sophie will be exhibiting - if you're unable to make to Thirsk, we do have copies of 'Home Sweet Home' (printed by Dan Bugg at Pendfold Press) at the gallery.

Posted by Simon Lewin on July 28th, 2011

Poster Poems
Posted by Simon Lewin

The post below about Martin Clark's poster for Andrews of Arcadia has prompted me to post about another recent project.

Our friends at Tinsmiths currently have a series of letterpress posters - a collaboration between Martin and poet Nick Alexander.

Twelve lines taken from Nick's work made graphic in twelve limited edition posters.

There are just a few copies of each edition left, available from Tinsmiths.

Posted by Simon Lewin on July 11th, 2011

Paul Furneaux
Posted by Angie Lewin

Earlier this week I was at Edinburgh Printmakers working on a new screen print based on my Los Gázquez sketches. On the second evening I was lucky to able to go along to a talk by Paul Furneaux about his current exhibition of beautifully crafted sculptural woodblock prints at the gallery.

Paul uses Japanese papers, enjoying the way the water based inks are absorbed and become a part of the paper itself - but he then takes this onto a different level. Prints on fine but strong paper are then wrapped around wooden box lids and other found objects or in the case of some of his most recent work he has developed his own forms onto which the minimal, abstract images are wrapped.

'Paul Furneaux: Mokuhanga' is at Edinburgh Printmakers, 23 Union Street Edinburgh EH1 3LR until July 23rd 2011.

You can also find out more at Paul's website.

Posted by Angie Lewin on July 1st, 2011