20x20 Printmaking Exhibition

This year I teamed up with Green Door Arts Group to enter the 20x20 printmaking open call exhibition which is run by Hotbed Press in Salford.

Each printmaker makes an edition of 20 of their prints and send it with the group collected works to Hotbed Press who then collate and exhibit the works in their premises. They then send each participant 20 prints in return. The returned prints could be from all over the UK and beyond, they could be amateur or proffessional printmakers, total beginners or acomplished printmakers. We then had a small exhibition of our own at Yore Mill Craft Shop and Gallery in the studio space, showing our entries and those we recieved in return.

We were also twinned with another group of the same size, Square Group, and we have also exhibited their work too. I have no contact for their group and so am unable to acknowledge their ownership of their images.Likewise, there are too many artists to list here for the collections. I hope you will forgive me if you recognise your work.

Participating artists from Green Door are: Myself; Julie Edwardson, Kath Lockhart, Robert Finch, Gilli Slater and Frances Winder.

We opened the exhibition on the 2nd and 3rd of December 2023 and it runs until we close for Christmas on the 22nd Dec 2023 Julie Edwardson

Printmaking

I have been given the long loan of a printing press and I am really enjoying exploring different possibilities with using it as part of my practice.

Exploring the theme of memories by printing on different surfaces and developing some of the themes in my current work.

Using various techniques here including Lino printing and drypoint etching.

The drypoint etching is particularly pleasing to do as here I have used a pvc sheet to trace a drawing using a stylus straight onto the plate. You then use the traditional techniques of applying ink and printing onto slightly dampened paper.

Lino print Rose, printed using two different lino plates onto brown parcel paper.

Collograph printing from a dried rose

Rose printing onto a book page

3 colour lino print using 3 plates

a washing line production

3 plates again but using different colour combinations.

Again printing onto an old book page

Just using two plates this time

Again onto an old book

Dry point etching of the Little Dutch Girl Pelham Puppet.

Printing press

Printing press set up

Collographs on the line