New print and a new body of work

It is often said that familiarity breeds contempt, I am ashamed to say that when it comes to my own local area I am guilty of this. I have recently started to look anew at the valley where I live and grew up in . An area that for the last 30 odd years I have sadly overlooked and neglected when it came to inspiration for my own work. In part this has come about because of my daughter Carly's growing interest in photography. Seeking out local sites for her to explore and photograph has made me look again at the history and landscape of my local area, revealing some hitherto unknown and surprising riches. So this new print is in someways a new beginning, heralding the start of a new and in some ways more personal body of work.

This is the first 6 stages of the print.

Higherford Mill Exhibition

I spent yesterday over at Higherford Mill in Barrowford, near Colne hanging the Up North Printmakers exhibition along with Jamie Barnes and Pete Marsh. An enjoyable afternoon and we completed the work and tided up just in time for the opening and private view. The exhibition runs over two weekends; 8th and 9th and then the 15th and 16th September from 10-4 each day. A diverse exhibition of original printmaking with etchings, linocuts, woodblock, collograph, monoprints and mezzotints. Featuring the work of Jamie Barnes, Anita Burrows, Pete Marsh. Lisa  Moore, Julie Robinson-Southwood, Anna Tosney, Debbie Williams and myself. In a lovely setting in an old cotton mill nestling beneath Pendle Hill, converted into artists studios with an exhibition space in the centre.

Higherford Mill Studios
Gisburn Road
Barrowford
Nr Colne
Lancashire
BB9 8PL

The mill entrance

Jamie Barnes

Pete Marsh

Finished