'Speckled Landscape' Flora McLachlan RE (2017)
Based in Pembrokeshire, Flora McLachlan is fast becoming one of Britain's leading painters and printmakers. Elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) in 2013, McLachlan exhibits her work regularly at galleries right across the UK. Working principally in etching and lithography, McLachlan's poetic landscapes are a lyrical vision of dappled light and shade, an enchanted realm populated by mythical guardian animals surrounded by wooded hills and shadowy glades. 'Speckled Land' was drawn after travelling between Brynberian and Aberystwyth and observing the unfolding hills from the car. The hedges and trees are shaped by the wind from the sea and small rushy fields shelter the animals grazing there.
Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Croft, this delightful image was drawn with lithographic crayon and tusche wash and printed in five runs from plate and stone in a limited edition of 30 impressions on Grey Rives paper. Further information about Flora McLachlan can be found at: http://www.floramclachlan.co.uk
Print Club Prints 2013 - 2018
'Creiglyn' Ian Phillips (2014)
For Ian Phillips, who works chiefly with linocut, this was an opportunity for him to try a completely new medium and it was curious to see how his approach to drawing and planning was affected by use of crayon and tusche in lithography. Creiglyn 2014 by Ian Phillips was printed as a five-run lithograph - printed from stone and plate in an edition of 30 impressions (20 available). During the last few years Ian has been involved with Pine Feroda, an unique collective of five artists based in Devon and Cornwall, working together to produce collaborative prints on a huge scale - these prints have been a knockout success at this year's Royal Academy Exhibition in London.
'Rhiannon's Dream' Gini Wade (2018)
'Rhiannon's Dream' is a four-run lithograph by the well known Welsh artist and illustrator Gini Wade.
Working from her own studio in Llanidloes in mid-Wales, her work ranges across drawing, painting, etching and lithography and more recently, through the medium of film and animation. Gini is also a director of Aberystwyth Printmakers and in the past, she has taught lithography at the Rodd, at the Sidney Nolan Trust in Presteigne. www.giniwade.com
Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Croft, Rhiannon's Dream has been drawn with lithographic crayon and tusche wash, and printed in four runs from stone and plates in a limited split edition of 30 impressions, 15 on Rives Grey and 15 on Somerset Grey.
The image reflects Gini's interest in myths and legends, stories from across the globe that deal with our common origins and ancient histories. For this print, she has focused upon Rhiannon, the strong female character from the Welsh Mabinogi, together with her enchanted birds, seen here swirling as a magical murmuation of starlings which return every evening to roost beneath Aberystwyth pier at sunset.
Rhiannon's Dream Gini Wade
Edition 30 on Rives Grey and Somerset Grey 410mm x 540mm
Speckled Landscape Flora McLachlan
Edition 30 on Rives Grey 380mm x 535mm
Edith Eleanor Stuart Evans
Edition 30 on Rives Grey and Rives Cream 382mm x 545mm
Stone Jetty Karen Pearce
Edition 30 on Rives Tan, Rives Cream and Rives Grey 530mm x 440mm
Creiglyn Ian Phillips
Edition 30 on Hahnemuhle 420mm x 610mm
Moel Famau Mary Lloyd Jones
Edition 40 on Hahnemuhle 340mm x 430mm