Jo de Pear is a British Printmaker whose recent work has focused on the flora and fauna of the island of Antigua where she spends several months of the year living and working. Her work has explored the process of cyanotype, using the strong sunshine as her enlarger to create striking one-off works. 

Due to the pandemic, Jo was grounded in London for a year, where she took the time to develop her cyanotype works into other creative print processes. This has included etching, screenprinting and woodblock printing. 

We are very pleased to feature here a collection of Artist Proofs from a new forthcoming collection of prints. These have been hand printed by Jo in London during April 2021 and will soon launch as limited editions of 20. 

These Artist Proofs are unique in the sense that some may not ever make it to being a full edition - making these all the more special.

** Please note : these have been photographed in both natural and artificial light - due to the nature of the ink which has a slightly reflective quality to it - the colours are not exact. 

All works are sold unframed - for framing options please do get in touch. 

Launching today 8 March 2021 are two new works by Christine Wilkinson from the BT Tower series. 

As an artist that mostly works with pixels and light, these works are more figurative than usual.  The iconic BT Tower in London's Fitzrovia district is a familiar beacon to many Londoners. Christine photographed the tower from her central London home over one morning. The images have not been digitally manipulated and instead have been arranged to tell a story of a moment in time, witnessed from a fixed viewpoint unique to the Artist. 

Each work is a limited edition of only 12.
Paper size 65 x 65 cm 
Signed and numbered on the reverse. 
£475 

Very sadly Jane Fredericks died on 30 November 2020. In the last few weeks of her life, Jane decided she wanted to leave 4 limited edition prints that would help provide some income for her 16 year old daughter and serve as a parting gift to those who may not have been able to afford her original one-off paintings.  

Her husband Volker and I helped facilitate that wish and the prints are available to buy on the website.  The prints are authenticated by a signed certificate of authenticity. These are beautiful, high quality reproductions of original works that have not been sold and that remain with her family.

The prints are currently available to view at the studio - please do get in touch if you would like to view them. 

Launching on 19 November are 4 new exclusive collectors print sets of Jo de Pear's popular 'Decanters' series.

British Printmaker Jo de Pear has for many years worked with an archive of family heirlooms with her work – previous collections have centred on her predecessors’ silver cutlery and antique lace. Over the past few years Jo has been working with the cyanotype process in the sunshine of Antigua, making striking graphic prints from the island’s rich flora and fauna.

As a consummate printmaker it was a natural progression to use the cyanotype process to experiment with the antique cut glass decanters and other glassware – taken to Antigua from London piece by piece. The results of these experiments have revealed a beautiful contrast of shadow and light and their beauty is the resulting clarity of line and tone. The ghost like shadows provide strong graphic images as well as capturing a bygone era with a strong contemporary twist.

The initial experiments and resulting prints have been successful and have now mostly sold. Due to the travel restrictions due to Covid this year and Jo unable to travel to Antigua, this led her to go back in to the print room in London and experiment with photopolymer plates

in order to reproduce the very strongest original cyanotypes in a different print process.

 This has enabled her to produce this exclusive limited edition of prints using both cyanotype process blue and then pushing the boundaries further and experimenting with a new colour ochre.

Over the past few weeks Jo has worked hard in the print room as each print is individually hand inked, wiped, polished with tissue paper to enhance the whites and taken through an etching press by hand. These are then dried for weeks under boards to keep the paper flat. The results are these fantastic collectors sets of prints, each unique in the sense that they are all hand printed but available at a really accessible price.

 You can view all of Jo de Pear's new works and earlier works here:

I’m pleased to present new and exclusive work by London artist Marie Lenclos who has created a series of 6 new works for us. Marie's works are hugely popular and sell out quickly. These smaller works are a perfect way to start your art collection at a very accessible price. 

The collection of oil paintings on linen were made during October, and inspired by Autumn light and colours. 

Marie Lenclos says of the work 'All the places pictured are in my immediate neighbourhood, close to my home and studio. They reflect on the beauty that can surprise us in the most familiar places, if we let it.'

The works go live on the website at 6am on Thursday 12 November. To view the collection in advance please get in touch. 

Size: 18x24cm
Medium: Oil on Linen.   
Year: 2020
Price includes frame. 

See all of Marie Lenclos' available works here

See all of Anna Marrow's available works here

British artist Ceal Warnants has been having a sell out time at the Royal Academy Summer/Winter show recently with her popular Riot print selling out - and we're delighted to add two new prints to the gallery.

The aptly titled 'The Quaranteens' is a limited edition of 200 and 'Twins' - a limited edition of 100 - both prints are a great addition to any art lover's collection and make great gifts. See all of Ceal Warnants prints here 

Please do ask about framing

I'm pleased to present a new addition to our website : a collection of art and design books from publisher Gestalten. The Age of Collage Vol. 3 is one of the books we have in the collection and is available to buy here . The work covers a broad range of the history of collage and also features work by our artist Vesna Vrdlojak whose work you can see here

Cut, paste, create: While Collage was conceived in the early 1900s, it seems to be the perfect form of expression for the twenty-first century, with all its juxtapositions and eclecticism and strange bedfellows. In our present The Age of Collage 3, the simple act of mixing together different elements allows us to question our reality and make new worlds. The Age of Collage 3 showcases a new crop of artistic vanguards advancing the medium’s possibilities, piece-by-piece. Equipped with a craft knife, paintbrush, stylus, scissors, or tablet, a collage artist’s toolkit is as varied as their creations and this book brings their work back to the paper page.

Creating things by hand is an intentional gesture that has brought with it a resistance to digitisation of image consumption, and an awareness of the manipulation of photographic imagery. Many of today’s artists are using digital media in new ways to create layered compositions. In doing so the process of addition and removal and combining contrasting elements is not just an artistic process. It is a way of thinking.

ABOUT THE CO-EDITORS

Dennis Busch is an artist and author involved in shaping two gestalten classics, The Age of Collage 1 & 2. A master of masking and the double-take, he brings a generous dose of surrealistic humor to classic cut-out techniques, forming strange and witty collages. Francesca Gavin is the author of six books, editor of LIMBO magazine and is a contributing editor at Financial Times – How to Spend It, Twin and Kaleidoscope. She co-curated exhibitions at Somerset House and Palais de Tokyo. Her monthly radio show Rough Version on NTS looks at the intersection of art and music.

Editors: gestalten, Dennis Busch & Francesca Gavin
Features: Full color, hardcover, stitch bound, 320 pages
Format 24 × 30 cm, 9 ½ × 11 ¾ inches

Available to buy here: