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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.
lucy w
Oct 10, 20209 min read


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.
lucy w
Sep 20, 20206 min read


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".
lucy w
Sep 5, 20205 min read


Behind the print: "Daily Express Building"
Peter Luty combines artistic and technical drawing in his linocuts of buildings.
lucy w
Aug 4, 20206 min read


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.
lucy w
Jul 23, 20203 min read


Introducing new member Janet Wilson
Janet Wilson talks about using different printmaking techniques to explore the natural world.
lucy w
Jul 17, 20203 min read


Introducing new member Julian Davies
Julian Davies explains how his reduction linocuts are influenced by Zen gardens, Kandinsky and Frank Zappa.
lucy w
Jul 9, 20205 min read


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.
lucy w
May 15, 20202 min read


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.
lucy w
Mar 10, 20204 min read


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.
lucy w
Mar 2, 20203 min read


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.
lucy w
Feb 4, 20202 min read


Behind the print: "Terra Lunar"
Christina France on how her father's log book from his time as a Second World War pilot helped inspire her etching with 23-carat gold dust.
lucy w
Sep 24, 20193 min read


Behind the print: "Lion"
Tammy Mackay talks about her etching and drypoint "Lion", which was selected for the National Original Print Exhibition.
lucy w
Sep 20, 20192 min read


Inspired @ Watts Contemporary Gallery (Part 4)
In the final week of Greenwich Printmakers at 40, more of our artists reveal how and why they made their new prints for the show.
lucy w
Aug 28, 20193 min read


Behind the print: "Mary's Chapel"
Bethany Marett shares how she was inspired by the architectural achievement of another woman artist, Mary Watts, to create her new linocut.
lucy w
Aug 28, 20192 min read


Behind the print: "Chapel on the Hill"
Ann Burnham on how a brief to create a Surrey-inspired print for Watts Contemporary Gallery led her to explore a new approach to linocut.
lucy w
Aug 22, 20193 min read


Inspired @ Watts Contemporary Gallery (Part 2)
Four more of our artists share the thought process behind the new prints they made for Watts Contemporary Gallery.
lucy w
Aug 21, 20193 min read


Behind the print: "Beneath the Woods"
Jennifer Jokhoo explains how she made her reduction linocut "Beneath the Woods", which is in our show at the Watts Contemporary Gallery.
lucy w
Aug 14, 20191 min read


Inspired @ Watts Contemporary Gallery
Many of us made new work in response to the Watts collection and its setting. Three artists share what inspired their very different prints.
tammy494
Aug 10, 20193 min read


Behind the print: "Mind the Gap"
Anthony Salter explains how he made his photogravure and linocut “Mind the Gap”, which is on show at the Royal Academy of Arts.
lucy w
Aug 5, 20193 min read
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