Putney Printmakers
11th – 22nd March
Meet the artists: Thurs 13 March, 6 to 8pm
We are six printmakers who work together and use the print studios at Putney Art School. Over time we’ve all developed distinctly different styles that use a wide variety of printing methods: intaglio etching, screen printing, collagraphs, lino and drypoint - and sometimes combinations of these. Our subjects are also very individual and they encompass city life to domestic life and plants to animals.
Heather Graham
My work celebrates the patterns, shapes, colours and textures of what I see around me. When something catches my eye, I’ll draw and photograph it. Then it’s time to think about which of the huge choice of printmaking techniques would be best to use: screen printing, etching, dry point collagraph or a combination. I love the endless possibilities of printmaking – you can never stop experimenting or being surprised by results – and I like making small, varied editions that are often hand finished.
Paula Boyd-Barrett
I gained my BA Fine Art (Printmaking) at WSCAD, Farnham and took up printmaking again after taking a part time course to refresh my skills. My colourful screen prints are inspired by my passion for our natural world and the wildlife within it. I spend many hours walking in the great outdoors on the lookout for potential subjects for my next print! My aim is to portray the quirky characteristics of the creatures I’ve seen. Working from my sketches and my own photos I create detailed artwork that is then transferred on to a silkscreen to create a stencil. I use this method to hand print all my images, creating small, limited editions. My prints have been selected to exhibit at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition twice, Wildlife Artist of the Year, the Chelsea Arts Society summer exhibition and Sprout Arts group exhibitions, amongst others. I am a member of Southbank Printmakers.
Website www.paulabb.co.uk Instagram: paulaboydbarrett_artist
Julie Sullock
Julie Sullock was trained in painting and her prints reflect the painterly process, building up layers of colour to achieve the desired effect. Julie enjoys experimenting with different printmaking processes, mixing, etching with screen to create the desired effect. The opaque, fluorescent and bright colours, of screen mixed with the translucent, deep textures of etching, are a combination that interests her. Julie’s subjects range from abstract designs to plants and more recently, to looking at the Thames and the structures around it.
Jenny Seddon
is an illustrator and printmaker who grew up in Cornwall and now lives and works in South West London. She makes illustrative screen prints inspired by nature and other everyday observations. The stencils for each layer are either hand drawn, cut out of paper or painted directly on to the silk screen with a reduction method of working. She loves screen printing for its opportunity to play with different colour combinations and for how the print can change so much as each layer is added. Website www.jennyseddon.com Instagram: jennyseddonillustration
Eileen St Julian-Bown
Eileen draws inspiration from the everyday scenes around her and having moved recently to Putney spent time absorbing the embankment, bridge, and boat, and boat houses. She has always felt bridges were more than a way from A to B but gave easy access to very contrasting worlds. Her influences are the Grosvenor School and the futurists, their emphasis on dynamic movement she accentuates through vibrant colour. Every screen print presents its own challenge. In creating a shape or a line she may emphasise a dimension to draw the eye, as her eye is drawn to things that catch her imagination. Each feature, subtle or dynamic, must speak to her if it is to be offered as part of the vision with which she seeks to engage her audience.
Yvonne Guerrier
Yvonne Guerrier is an etcher and screen printer. She is attracted to timeless landscapes, such as medieval villages, old castles, fishing ports, but also to the people interacting with them: tourists, street performers, musicians and dancers. Her etchings incorporate textures such as bubble wrap, option bags and textured wallpapers as well as aquatint to produce images with a fairytale quality.
Her screen prints often borrow from the imagery in her etchings and are sometimes printed on gold or silver paper. Yvonne came to print making later in life after a career as a university lecturer (specialising in tourism). She studied at West Dean College and at Putney School of Art. She is a member of Southbank printmakers and Richmond printmakers and has exhibited with them in galleries across London and beyond.
Imprints
Krystina Stimakovits & Maria Storey
March 25 – 3rd April, Tues to Sunday 11am to 5pm
PV Wednesday 26 March. 6 to 8:30pm
Krystina Stimakovits: An everyday encounter with a configuration of lines and shapes that somehow resonates and imprints itself gets turned into a clear design. This design adapts as it requires wilful incisions using sharp tools and hand pressure on wooden spoons when printing. Invariably the resulting image surprises and like music continues henceforth to elude any precise meaning and comprehension.
In her mid 40s Krystina studied Fine Art at Camberwell. Following jobs in independent film and urban regeneration she has pursued photography and printmaking since 2006. Her works have featured in international magazines and in solo and group exhibitions in London, Cambridge and various European cities such as Barcelona, Budapest, Rome, Porto. @kristinastima
Maria Storey: is an artist who makes original prints using relief and intaglio techniques in the form of lino cuts, wood blocks and etchings. She draws inspiration from her love of nature and of the wildlife that inhabits London and the English countryside. Her prints are all hand printed limited editions. @mariastoreyprints
SPROUT ABSTRACT SHOW
APRIL 7 – 19th
22 April to 3 May: Sensory Show from Elisha of Rose & Herb,
6 – 17 MAY: Val Coumont Jane Richards, Linda Latter
20 to 31 May, Phillipa Egerton & Roopa Basu
JUNE Summer Showcase | Fringe/City of Culture Event
Tues 24 JUNE to Friday 4 JULY Graveney School
Saturday 5 July: Furzedown Makers' Summer Showcase
July 10 to 12 Sprout Art Loan
