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Behind the print

Apr 23
3 min

Behind the print: "Egyptian Birds"

Elaine Marshall on how she made her linocut print “Egyptian Birds”, which was inspired by wall paintings on display at the British Museum.

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Apr 10
5 min

Behind the print: "When We Could Touch"

Sally McKay captures fleeting moments in her prints, often inspired by her sketches of dance rehearsals. She talks about her evolving work.

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Dec 18, 2020
4 min

Behind the print: 'Postcards'

Ann Burnham's ‘Postcards’ series explores her grandmother’s memories about fleeing Russia. Ann shows how she made these collagraph prints.

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lucy w

Nov 9, 2020
1 min

Calendar 2021 available now

Buy our 2021 calendar and our "Greenwich and the Thames" illustrated guide booklet at our new online shop.

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lucy w

Nov 9, 2020
1 min

Prints for Presents winter exhibition

Our new show at our Greenwich gallery is due to reopen on December 3, after the lockdown, but you can have a sneak peek in the meantime.

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Behind the print: "Cuttings from Athens"

lucy w

Oct 10, 2020
9 min

Behind the print: "Cuttings from Athens"

Ruairi Fallon McGuigan talks about reduction woodcut techniques, making chessboards and being selected for the RA Summer Exhibition 2020.

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lucy w

Sep 20, 2020
6 min

Behind the print: "Lockdown Morning"

Bethany Marett uses print, sculpture and photography to explore the body and the gaze. She talks about her new reduction woodcut.

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Sep 5, 2020
5 min

Behind the print: "Hope"

Tammy Mackay’s animal and bird prints are richly layered with meaning. She talks about her new series, "Hope" and "Fear".

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Behind the print: "Daily Express Building"

lucy w

Aug 4, 2020
6 min

Behind the print: "Daily Express Building"

Peter Luty combines artistic and technical drawing in his linocuts of buildings.

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Jul 23, 2020
3 min

Behind the print: "Colour Combinations"

Olivia Krimpas talks about using colour to create prints that look very different from the same plates in her "Colour Combinations" series.

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lucy w

Jul 17, 2020
3 min

Introducing new member Janet Wilson

Janet Wilson talks about using different printmaking techniques to explore the natural world.

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Jul 9, 2020
5 min

Introducing new member Julian Davies

Julian Davies explains how his reduction linocuts are influenced by Zen gardens, Kandinsky and Frank Zappa.

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lucy w

May 15, 2020
2 min

Behind the print: Allotment series

Diana Croft on her series of reduction linocut prints inspired by allotments, which have become important sanctuaries in the lockdown.

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lucy w

Mar 10, 2020
4 min

Behind the print: "The Picnickers"

Jennie Ing talks about how she made her reduction linocut "The Picnickers", which captures a perfect summer evening she didn't want to end.

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Behind the print: “When the Honey Wind Blows”

lucy w

Mar 2, 2020
3 min

Behind the print: “When the Honey Wind Blows”

Clare Grossman talks about using colour, scale and experimentation to create a sense of nature’s power in her new monotype etching series.

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lucy w

Feb 4, 2020
2 min

Behind the print: "Trees in My Garden"

Carolyn Fuller explains how she combines relief printing, monoprinting, batik dye and even spray paint in her Trees in My Garden series.

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Barbican 40x40 exhibition comes home to Greenwich Printmakers

lucy w

Jan 15, 2020
1 min

Barbican 40x40 exhibition comes home to Greenwich Printmakers

If you missed our special 40x40 prints at the Barbican in December, you have another chance to see them at Greenwich Printmakers Gallery.

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Jan 13, 2020
1 min

Christina France - Featured Artist

Christina France is a visual artist working with print, drawing and a combination of the two. Creating embossed drawings and prints as a...

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lucy w

Dec 3, 2019
3 min

A gallery through time

Greenwich Printmakers is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2019. Here are just a few of the key events in our history.

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lucy w

Dec 3, 2019
1 min

40x40: A Celebration of Print

Our landmark exhibition runs at the Barbican Library until December 31 and marks our 40th anniversary with a showcase of 40cm x 40cm prints.

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