All Things Considered

A Is For Accordion
Posted by Simon Lewin

Here's a wonderful new screen print by Emily Sutton, "A Is For Accordion". Emily is dropping in some copies of the edition this weekend - we'll add to our online store early next week. In the meantime, you can view these other prints by Emily.

Posted by Simon Lewin on June 8th, 2010

Winter Persephone
Posted by Angie Lewin

My wood engraving Winter Persephone has been selected to be part of the RA Summer Exhibition 2010. The last 20 copies of the edition will be available there.

The exhibition runs from 14th June until 22nd August 2010 at the Royal Academy, London Full details

Posted by Angie Lewin on June 6th, 2010

Faber & Faber Poetry Collections 2010
Posted by Simon Lewin

It's great to see five of the printmakers we represent at St. Jude's illustrating covers for the latest collections of poetry published by Faber.

This series features:

Kid by Simon Armitage (cover by Peter Clayton)
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope (cover by Ed Kluz)
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin (cover by Michael Kirkman)
Dart by Alice Oswald (cover by Jonathan Gibbs)
Nil, Nil by Don Paterson (cover by Charles Shearer)
Ariel by Sylvia Plath (cover by Sarah Young)

You'll find prints from Peter, Ed, Michael, Jonathan and Sarah over at our online print store.

Find out more about the series and order the complete set online from Faber.

Posted by Simon Lewin on May 23rd, 2010

Rob Ryan at Pick Me Up
Posted by Simon Lewin

Rob Ryan and his team have just completed a stint at Somerset House where they moved their entire studio for the Pick Me Up exhibition.

Here's a time lapse film that Karl Sadler made of 7 days worth of paper-cutting. To put this in context, each second of the film represents about 20 minutes of cutting.

Although often sold a unique papercut pieces, some of Rob's papercuts are editioned as screenprints - you can view a selection online at our print store.

Posted by Simon Lewin on May 4th, 2010

Mark Hearld in BBC Homes & Antiques
Posted by Simon Lewin

Regular visitors to our website will be aware that Mark Hearld will be exhibiting at our North Norfolk gallery from Saturday 12th June 2010. If you'd like an invitation to the opening and details nearer the time, please sign up for our e-mail newsletter.

Mark also features in the June 2010 issue of BBC Homes and Antiques in an interview with Charles Farahar...

"The briefest glance around Mark Hearld’s York flat tells you that this is the home of an artist, an animal lover and, clearly, a hoarder. Everywhere you look, something catches the eye. Stuffed animals nestle next to Staffordshire figures. Piles of books – mainly artist’s monographs, Picasso is a particular favourite – crowd the shelves, and paintings and drawings from artist friends decorate the walls. An imposing, rabbit-shaped cushion occupies a chair, birds flutter endlessly after each other in a paper mobile overhead. There’s even an enormous 3D duck hanging from the ceiling."

Read the article in the June edition of BBC Homes and Antiques. Photo below by Jane Sebire courtesy of BBC Homes & Antiques.

Posted by Simon Lewin on April 28th, 2010

Angie Lewin’s Salthouse poster
Posted by Simon Lewin

LATEST Angie's 'Salthouse' poster will feature in her forthcoming 'Plants and Places' book, published Autumn 2010. For details nearer the launch, sign up for Angie's newsletter.

UPDATE The bidding closed on the 16th May 2010 and the winning bid for Angie's print was over £2,200. In total just over £4900 was raised for the Marine Conservation Society.

Earlier this year Angie was asked by Coast magazine to produce a linocut print, re-inventing the seaside poster.

Seven artists have contributed to the project including paper-cut artist Rob Ryan, Red or Dead founders Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway and Biba creator Barbara Hulanicki.

This three-colour linocut print (50cm x 70cm) is a one-off and is being auctioned to raise proceeds for the Marine Conservation Society.

The auction launches on Ebay on Thursday 6th May 2010 - if you'd like to receive a reminder nearer the time, do sign up for Angie's e-mail newsletter.

Posted by Simon Lewin on April 22nd, 2010

Chloe Cheese at The French House
Posted by Simon Lewin

Illustrator & printmaker Chloe Cheese currently has an exhibition of drawings and prints on at The French House (49 Dean Street, London W1) entitled "A Glimpse Of The French House and Soho".

We have a solo exhibition of Chloe's work at our gallery in North Norfolk in December - for further details and an invitation to the opening nearer the time, please do sign up for our e-mail newsletter.

Posted by Simon Lewin on April 22nd, 2010

Sheila Robinson
Posted by Simon Lewin

Designer Brian Webb has produced a wonderful booklet to accompany The Fry Gallery's "Women of Bardfield" exhibition. We've asked Brian to select a few of his favourite images and will be posting these in the coming weeks.

The first is "Abingdon, 1965" by Sheila Robinson.

Born in Nottinghamshire, Sheila Robinson studied at the local Art School and then at the Royal College of Art where she came under the influence of Edward Bawden. An accomplished printmaker she developed to a high quality the cardboard-cut. On her marriage to Bernard Cheese she moved to Great Bardfield, where they worked on their own commissions and with Bawden.

We're delighted to be working with Sheila's daughter Chloe Cheese who will be exhibiting at St. Jude's in December.

"Women of Bardfield" runs at The Fry Gallery in Saffron Walden until 4th July 2010. Full details

Posted by Simon Lewin on April 8th, 2010

Women of Bardfield
Posted by Simon Lewin

Next Sunday sees the opening of a new exhibition at the Fry Gallery in Saffron Walden.

'Women of Bardfield' exhibits the work of the artists who worked in this Essex village, which during the 40s and 50s was home to artists and designers including Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious, Sheila Robinson (whose work is pictured below), Bernard Cheese, Marianne Straub and Walter Hoyle.

From the Fry Art Gallery website...

"There are wood engravings, box constructions and paintings by Tirzah Ravilious, oils paintings and pots by Charlotte Bawden, and remarkable marbled papers by both artists, often working together at the kitchen table. Sheila Robinson invented the cardboard cut and there are a number of these together with an unpublished book Seven Dancing Princesses. Lucy, the first wife of John Aldridge, was a rag rug maker and one of her pieces is on show together with a portrait of her at her work. Marianne Straub had a distinguished career in woven textiles and there are examples on display. Many people will have sat on her work while riding on London Transport's buses or Underground trains.

Besides all this work these women artists and wives were remarkable for the richness of the decorations of their own homes- a quality which lives on in photographs at the time, and the tradition of decorating interiors with interesting object d'art, handicrafts, linocut wallpapers and found objects. "

On a related note, we're delighted to be hosting an exhibition of work by Chloe Cheese (Bernard Cheese and Sheila Robinson's daughter) in December 2010.

Chloe studied at Cambridge Art School and then the Royal College of Art. She has exhibited at galleries worldwide and has work in public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Arts Council of Great Britain.

'Women of Bardfield' opens on Sunday 4th April 2010 at the Fry Art Gallery.

If you'd like to receive an invitation to Chloe's exhibition with us in December, please sign up for our e-mail newsletter. In the meantime, you can view examples of her prints at our online print store.

Posted by Simon Lewin on March 27th, 2010

Frank Kiely
Posted by Simon Lewin

Artist Frank Kiely will be exhibiting a range of his prints on the Mark Jason Gallery stand at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea Park, London this weekend.

The Fair runs until 6pm on Sunday 14th March 2010. For full details visit the Affordable Art Fair website.

Posted by Simon Lewin on March 11th, 2010