Reflections at high tide in the harbour St Ives

Four colour screenprint

Four colour screenprint

 

Ukraine (monoprint)

 

Recent(ish) works (2022 -23)

 

Open Studios at Higher Bussow  17 -18 September 2022 (10am - 5pm).

The Belgrave Gallery and four studio artists will be waiting to greet you and show works and techniques.

From 1977

Re-discovered some screenprints that I made way back in 1977! These two depict a block of flats near the Elephant & Castle where I used to work.   Night & Day were printed on a light weight cartridge paper using white-spirit based inks that were common back then. Probably 'Jet Satin'. 

 

 Day

They look pretty good framed.

 

2020 - the end is nigh...

 ...And we will be glad to say farewell to 2020.

It has not been a good year; cataract surgery was delayed 4 times but finally one eye was treated in mid-November. It is difficult to screenprint when you cannot see but how staggeringly bright and colourful the world appears after the operation.

While waiting for surgery I managed to damage 3 toes with the lawn-mower. Entirely my own fault and I remain very embarrassed by the incident. Three months later I am still having to attend the wonderful Stennack Surgery every week to change the dressing!

So what it was a lean year for printing. But here are some of the output:

Cards for The St Ives Jazz Club - this is for the amazing SPYRALZ 

New doors, windows and a hanging basket at the Higher Bussow Farm Studio! 

Phase II - screenprint of Susi and Rebecca socially distanced in an almost empty St Ives

Pack of 10 cards with foraging recipes

Pack of TEN different cards, nine cards depict a locally available (Cornwall) edible plant and a recipe from a local forager.

The tenth card tells the famous tale of Stone Soup.

Cards can be purchased individually (£2.50) or the pack of ten cards (£20) plus postage (£1.50).   Facebook page

St Ives is blessed with an excellent Jazz Club that attracts top rate musicians from the UK and abroad..
Cards for the Jazz Series in preparation.

The party's over...
Thank you to everyone who visited the exhibition at the Crypt Gallery in St Ives.
A special thank you to those who loved the works enough to take them home.

To share my joy of screenprinting I spent several sessions screenprinting cards during the exhibition.

The Crypt Ga

llery is a little damp so I had to hang a washing line outside to encourage the cards to dry between colours.

Exhibition at the Crypt Gallery, St Ives

Featuring some new screenprints along with some old friends. The screenprinted foraging cards with recipes will also be available.

That was winter...

I have been very remiss and neglectful for months - but I have an excuse. We have been visiting Peru and Bolivia, reconnecting with old friends and exploring unknown areas.

Back now at home in St Ives and preparing for an exhibition later this year In the Crypt Gallery, St Ives.

Screenprinting workshops are once again up and running for both experienced, novice and just-fancy-a-go printers. At £10ph it is cheaper than a boat to visit the seals.

Here is the last review 
"Graham is clearly passionate about practicing and sharing his knowledge of the screenprinting craft. His printing studio set in a converted stables near St. Ives exemplifies the artist's creative setting. The main "screenprinter" during this activity was a 10-year old boy who had never tried anything similar. Graham was very patient with the novice child screenprinter and guided him during the various, at times messy, stages of the process to the end result - a lovely screenprinted T-shirt based on the child's design. We truly enjoyed learning about and doing screen printing for the first time and would highly recommend this as a novel artistic experience in a unique setting with a very patient and congenial host."

Go on - you know you want to...

Slowly Sloe

Winter is coming and so are the sloes. 

I recently added sloes to the foraging series of cards. I think it ended up with eight printings but I may have lost count. Three photo-stencils were used, combined with temporary blocking techniques using a wax based screen filler.
(Sorry about the poor photos).

First two colours, pale yellow rectangle over-printed with opaque  grey.

Screen filler was used to further block the grey stencil and over print greens

Photo-stencil with blocking

First blue with another photo-stencil

Darker blue over print using same technique

Add final black

Three Cornered Leek

<<< Three Cornered Leek smells and tastes of garlic and is great in salads or cooked.

I picked these on the walk to Higher Bussow Farm Studios and popped them in my coffee cup to take some photos.

Leaving them there for a night or two gave a wonderful fragrance to the studio - if you like garlic.

The final print of version 2 of the three cornered leek card. Six printing were used to produce the card. >>>