KUNSTHUIS Gallery is exhibiting 12 printmakers living and working in the UK who are pushing the boundaries of their creative practice.

The exhibition celebrates artists who demonstrate a fresh approach to printmaking, with a dynamic use of concepts, techniques and imagery.

Selected artists are; Annie Ramsden, Catherine Headley, Claire Shackleton, Ian Henderson, Lesley Birch, Lynne Blackburn, Milena Dragic, Patrick Smith, Jean Duncan, Laine Tomkinson, Shelley Burgoyne and Theresa Taylor whose works are challenging, fresh, contemporary and exciting.

Claire Shackleton uses a variety of printing techniques and particularly enjoys the unpredictable effects produced using collograph and monoprinting. Her work ranges in application and extends into textiles. Immersing herself in nature as an avid walker and river traveller, she finds herself drawn to the wonders of the natural world, the landscape and the flora and fauna that inhabit it.

Shelley Burgoyne is a contemporary printmaker based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, working across a wide range of printmaking media. Her intuitive creative approach flows through her innovative use of printmaking techniques. Exploring and experiencing wild and natural places is central to Shelley’s art practice.

She aims to make connections between her experiences, organic forms, found objects and personal events.

Theresa Taylor investigates areas of undefined intent, liminal spaces within the natural world that have vague boundaries, often photographing under water to collect research material as part of her project that has developed over the past three years.

She said: “I use the sea as a metaphor for the unconscious, representing our internal world.” Lynne Blackburn's work explores the memories and history embedded within familiar places and buildings - the human traces left behind in, and on, buildings - from the visual traces to subconscious and psychological ones.

“I am interested in how the ordinary and mundane of the everyday show and mark the passing of time, and by the transitory nature of the built environment.

Patrick Smith was born and raised in York and is an established artist navigating the domain of fine art painting and printmaking; his work is in many private and public collections in this country and abroad. Smith's practice concentrates on ideas associated with the edge and devices in composition and form. Using American abstract expressionism, and British modernism of the 1950s as a point of departure; influences can be ascribed to Robert Motherwell, Peter Lanyon, and more recently the sculpture and print of Eduardo Chillida.

A Printmaking Workshop – An Introduction to Linocut will also be held on on Wednesday, March 15.

Kunsthuis Gallery is located at the Dutch house premises on the road between Crayke and Brandsby. The exhibition runs until April, 2, Wednesday – Sunday 10am – 5pm.

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