Urban Art July 8th & 9th Brixton

Three of our members are exhibiting at this amazing open-air event on the weekend of 8th and 9th July.  Centered around Josephine Avenue, you can enjoy work of huge diversity and the same can be said of the prices!

Martin Langford will be there.  His Image 'Ride of your Life' won the People's Choice Award at the Royal Society of Painters/Printmakers this year, and 'Nucleus' has been chosen by the Urban Art team for use in their advertising. Congratulations Martin!

We are happy Theresa Pateman is participating again this year.  Her fresh quirky images are very popular and many of you will know her work from the Royal Academy. This year she has been focused on the production of exquisite 3-D theatre models but has managed to find time to make some new and wonderful work. I.e this emotive depiction of the Oxo tower seen from Gabriel's Wharf.......

Last, but certainly not least, is Julie Sullock with her exciting non-objective vibrant and colourful images.  We love her painting - 

'Red Stripe'

and her print....................

'Four Dots'

It will be a wonderful way to spend a Summer weekend (we pray for good weather) so please put it in your diaries! Entrance is FREE 

Last minute shopping

If, like me, you start your Christmas shopping 5 days before the great present - giving fest, please take a look at our website www.southbankprintmakers.com If you see something you like, give us a call.  We may have it in stock, we may even be able to deliver.  Better still, pop in.  We are open from 11.30 to 5 and although we may close early on Christmas Eve, if you call ahead....we will not!

Theresa Pateman's work is featured in the gallery at the moment, including the infamous 'Cat in a Basket' - an RA success story.

An enchanting view of Thameside

and this miraculous circular 'Winter Trees'

it just goes on and on...........What could be a better surprise that finding one of these in your pillowcase?

However, hard sell excepted, we want to thank all our customers who have visited the gallery this year, whether you have made a purchase or not.  We love it when you visit, just to browse and stop to chat.  Please do keep dropping by.  We promise a high standard and a great variety of work for you to enjoy.  If you haven't done so already, please do 'like' our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SouthbankPrintmakers/ and we will keep you up to date with our current exhibitions.  We're on Twitter and Instagram too! (@SBPrintmakers)

Finally

Southbank Printmakers at the Affordable Art Fair

From the 15th-19th June the Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead Heath opens its doors to the public for a phantasmagorical exhibition of the most amazing art you can enjoy or not enjoy depending on your taste.  Whatever you think of it, it is a great day or evening out and 10 of the Southbank Printmakers (past and present) are there in the guise of Printmakers Inc. Stand i2.  Here you can see the work of the following printmakers: Aimee Birnbaum, Kit Boyd, Angela Brookes, Sarah Garvey, Jennie Ing, Barbara Jackson, Martin Langford, Theresa Pateman, Sue Rowling and Julie Sullock 

See if you can match up each artist's image above with their websites!! 

 Theresa Pateman will help you get a half price ticket if you email her.

I (Jane Daniell) am also at the Fair.  You can see me at Stand H5 with ContemporArti and here is my most recent etching '...that's wound by a key'

You can also email me for a half price ticket!

Please do come!

Goings-on at Whitsuntide

A three day weekend is coming up and we hope it will be sunny and bright so that you will come down to the South Bank and visit us in the Gallery.  Louise Hayward (our current Artist in Focus) and Theresa Pateman will be there on Saturday, Eileen St Julian Bown on Sunday and Martin Langford is sitting on Monday.  All will welcome you warmly and will be on hand to talk to you about the prints and processes.

Talking of processes, Ann Burnham has photographed the stages involved in the making of a rather gorgeous print.

 Rolling out the ink for the second colour of my new reduction linocut

The inked up lino in the register on the bed of the press

The second colour editions hanging up to dry.

And the finished print called 'A Woodland Song'.

Amazing isn't it?  Below are two more of Ann's very popular prints

 Here's a reminder of where we are and our opening times:

Mon to Fri and Sunday: 11.30 to 6.30pm

Saturdays 10.00 to 8.00pm

.....................and that's not all folks!  We are currently looking for new members, so if you live in the London area and would be interested in joining our cooperative please email us.  Similarly, if you are looking for somewhere central to exhibit prints or works on paper, we rent out a wall and the use of a window for two weeks for £300

Discover Etching with Theresa Pateman

"oh to be an etcher, now that April's here"....well......

You may have considered taking an printmaking class but never got round to it. Perhaps you were not sure what it entails?

We discuss some forms of printmaking on our website

Theresa Pateman offers two classes at the Hampstead School of Art 19, Kidderpore Ave, London NW3 7ST on Mondays 10-1pm and 2-5pm.  She will introduce you to Drypoint, Acid Etching, Solar Plate, Mono print, Linocut and Collagraph.

Theresa Pateman 'Cat in a Box' Sold out at RA Summer Exhibition

To whet your appetite - here are some images showing you what happens when you employ Drypoint on Perspex- scoring into the plastic creates a surface you can rub into and make prints from, it's also an ideal material to cut to any shape.

You will receive a warm welcome!  An added incentive is the opening of a new school in the Spring term, offering a great space for all your artistic pursuits! 

Christmas Presents!

Barely two weeks to go!  

We have some fabulous prints and unique hand-made cards and we are OPEN every day between now and 25th.........

Look at this atmospheric work of skaters on the slippery slopes illuminated by an enormous moon........

Night Skate by Rebecca Denton

Diana Croft's beautiful image of an unadorned fir.............

Lucie Green has some of her lovely lino-cuts for sale - the one with the sheep!

Theresa Pateman has two rather special hand-made card in the gallery - 

and Kit Boyd' glorious 'Winter Green Man' is on show -

We have a unique take on the 'Three Wise Men' from our newest member, Jane Burrows -

......and Sue Ribbans delights us with her FC card entitled 'Father Christmas and his friend Dom'

Sue also has a rather unusual angel card - (I have bought a couple)

Here's Eileen St Julian-Bown's message in a bottle - what better way to wish them a happy Christmas!

Brrrrr - It's cold out there!- Ann Burnham's penguins -


- and without further ado I will introduce my own card, 'Not Even a Mouse' - that's me, Jane Daniell.....

Urban Art in Brixton this weekend

This weekend (11th and 12th July) five of our intrepid printmakers are taking part in the annual art fair on Josephine Avenue SW2.

They  are: (click on their names to visit their websites)

Martin Langford

Jennie Ing

Theresa Pateman

Julie Sullock

Peter Wareham

These images and many more will be available for sale and the artists will all be on hand to tell you how they came about and fill you in on printmaking lore.  It promises to be a fantastic weekend!  You can read all about it here

Post potato printing.....

.....or potato printing post!

Following a weekend at the RHS Spring Show where a few guys from Southbank Printmakers pitched up to provide an environment consisting of potatoes, ink and paper these pics have emerged and I thought I would share them.

A fun time was had by all!  Sales of cards and prints were remarkably good and here are some of the guys getting stuck in!

 This is Theresa who spends a large part of her life, when she isn't producing magnificent artwork, clearing up ink and paint as pictured.

 This is Mary who discovered her inner child in the humble potato.

 This lovely lady tapped her creative potential and discovered that something as delicate as a butterfly could be magicked in to existence with a few colours and a root vegetable.

 Completed patterns and prints on display at the Royal Horticultural Show

This was a communal project.....everyone had a go!

Southbank Printmakers is a gallery on the Southbank - Gabriel's Wharf to be precise.  Choc full of a wonderful selection of Limited Edition hand printed images, we are open everyday and would love to see you there.  So if you first made our acquaintance at the RHS please do visit our gallery so we can show what we can do when not making potato prints.