Celebrating the natural world in many different aspects, our annual print exhibition links with the themes of Flower Fairies in discovering the flora and fauna of our natural landscape.
The exhibition features the work of 8 artists from around the UK:
Jo Barry – etchings of the trees and landscape of the New Forest
Ian Brooks – etchings of the wild and barren landscapes of the Arctic
Rachel Gracey – lithographs of riverscape and parks, mostly in Oxfordshire
Clare Halifax – screenprints of flowers
Joshua Miles – linocuts of Scottish seascapes and landscapes
Babs Pease – linocuts of birds and fish
Emma Reynolds – screenprints of open skies
Julia Timmins - wood engravings of plants, fossils and shells
Between them, they represent a huge variety of approaches and styles, demonstrating how responses to the world we see can be depicted in so many different ways. From detailed wood engraving by Julia Timmins, to realistic watery linocuts by Joshua Miles, the chill-inducing empty landscape etchings of Ian Brooks, eye-popping colourful prints of birds and fish by Babs Peas, evocative and impressionistic semi-abstract riverscapes by Rachel Gracey – the variety of prints on show is enthralling.