We are open All weekend!  Including Monday, so if you are out and about on the South Bank or just wondering what to do please look no further.......

Unit 12, Gabriel's Wharf,

56 Upper Ground,

London SE1 9PP.  

Opening hours

Mon to Fri and Sunday: 11.30 to 6.30pm

Saturdays 10.00 to 8.00pm

We have LOTS of new work from our two newest members, Ellen Von Wiegand - below is her linocut 'Woman Behind Shower Curtain'

 and Sean Flynn - below is his 'Nothing Matters when we're Dancing' (also a linocut)

Buffy Kimm's work is also featured.  You can enjoy her 'Spiral Stairs' and many more of her spectacular black and white images.

Ann Burnham's popular linocuts are also available. Her latest can be seen in production below. 1. Rolling out the ink. 2. The inked up linocut. 3. Hanging out to dry. 

......A tiny proportion of the hundreds of hand made prints for your delight - and to answer your questions , Julie Sullock, (Friday) Mary Cossey, Judith Robertson, (Saturday) Maureen Sweeney (Sunday)and Libby Jones (Monday)

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

Congratulations Sally Cutler!

Some rather exciting news has come my way! Southbank Printmaker's very own Sally Cutler has had two of her prints (below) selected for the 3rd John Ruskin Prize; 'Recording Britain Now'  

London Heads

Richmond North Yorkshire Heads

Sally works predominantly in linocut using multiblock methods to add rich colour to her hand-burnished prints.  Group linocut portraits of real people attempt to accurately record the visual appearance of communities and old, lead type, printed by hand underneath, adds detail regarding the commerce and activities the individuals and regions engage in.

Sally has illustrated numerous books for Quarto Publishing and received other notable commissions from BBC Books, The Women's Press, The Tate Gallery, Scholastic and National Magazines.

She exhibits widely including selections for The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and The Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

If you would like to see the show - it has two parts. The first show is at The New Art GalleryWalsall and opens on the 26th Feb and the second show is at The Electrician's Shop, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London from the 6th May.

You can, of course, see a variety of Sally's work at our gallery!

We wish her 

SBP welcomes Sue Ribbans

We extend a warm welcome to Sue Ribbans who has recently joined us at the gallery. You can see her website here

Sue's work is a joyous assortment of linocuts and collographs which are humourous and lively.  From exuberant fowl......

 ......to her cheery Fat Ladies......

 and her enigmatic mermaids......

Sue brings with her colour and style!  We love her images - which are also going to be on show at Richmond Printmakers in their exhibition ‘Good Impressions - the Art of the Printmaker’ from 3 September to 29 November 2015. The Stables Gallery, Orleans House, Riverside Twickenham TW1 3DJ. 

You can of course see her work at the gallery Unit12, Gabriel's Wharf,56 Upper Ground, London SE1 9PP when we are open Mon to Fri and Sunday: 11.30 to 6.30pm Saturdays 10.00 to 8.00pm.

Southbank Printmakers welcomes Maxine Fitter

We are delighted to be hosting Maxine's lovely work at the Gallery  She will be with us from 18th May to 31st May, when you will be able to view and buy her prints every day of the week (Mon to Fri and Sunday: 11.30 – 6.30pm Saturdays 10.00 – 8.00pm).

Born in 1940, Maxine studied Illustration at St Martins School of Art 1956-60.  She then worked for a while in commercial advertising , as a florist for Constance Spry and when she had children, opened and ran a playgroup in Witham but throughout  maintained an interest in the natural world and drawing and painting.

Since taking an EARAC course at the then NE Essex School of Art(1988-90) Maxine has concentrated on and utilised the medium of printmaking to recreate the natural world and inanimate objects around us, observing the detail and patterns, simplifying and enlarging on the intricacies involved in anything, from frogs to lilies, from boats to mill wheels.  At the same time she helped set up and establish Cuckoo Farm Artists Studios and Print workshop in Colchester.

Maxine compulsively collects information, to draw and recreate, with lino cuts for strong images, or dry points and collographs for finer details.  She employs a depth of colour and patterns in her works to catch the attention and " tell the story " as she sees it.   

                                                                                                                         

Maxine regularly exhibits as a member of Colchester Art Society and Cuckoo Farm Printmakers as well as Lloyds Art Group in London.

She has had two solo exhibitions in the Colchester Digby gallery and has twice had work selected for the Society of Wild life Artists in the Mall galleries and the Eastern Arts Open in Kings Lynn.

This is a fantastic opportunity to own some of this very special work and we hope to see you during the two weeks it is available.

Thank you and Merry Christmas!

Unsurprisingly the Gallery is closed today and tomorrow (Boxing Day) but we open our doors again on Saturday at 10am when Phillip Solly will be sitting.......Here is one of his meticulously observed etchings - 'After the Downpour'

In the afternoon you can meet Jennifer Jokhoo.  Jennifer works in lino cut and etching and is best known for her architectural images, with particular reference to the regeneration of London Bridge.  She has also produced a number of images of the Shard in various stages of construction, documenting its progression and focusing on its changing layers and shapes.

Constructing a Shard of Glass'

If you are around on Saturday, Phillip and Jennifer would be delighted to see you.  We are open from 10am to 7pm.

Have a lovely day today  and a big

 to all our customers for your support in 2014.  It's been a great year!