brook gallery summer 2010

Celebrating a decade of British fine art original prints

Sir Peter BlakeHeidi KönigKathleen CaddickDonald Hamilton FraserDeborah TrelivingDavid HockneyChris OrrHenry Moore

JUNE - AUGUST | Moving through the summer witha series of selected works from our best selling artists

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Also including:Volume one of the Mending Broken Hearts portfolios | Breath of Life

Foreword

10 years ago, living in London and only a second time visitor to Budleigh Salterton, I sat ona wooden bench in the window of the Brook Gallery and there began a dream…

Here I am, now the proud owner of that same gallery celebrating some of the best exhibitionsduring that time.

The last 10 years has seen the gallery developing into an authority on Original Prints and aresource for local artists and art lovers alike. We are fortunate to have great relationshipswith some of the best artists and publishers in the country, which allows us to bring thevaried and exciting collections to Devon that we do. This summer is testament to that – wejust could have done with longer in order to fit in all of our successes.

I hope you enjoy browsing through our brochure which will give you a good idea of ourschedule over the summer. The website will give an up-to-date guide as to what is availableat any point. Obviously there are more pieces that we could incorporate in the booklet andmany are mono-prints or end-of-edition, so not always available in quantities!

You’ll see from the flyer, as well as fantastic art, we are hosting a variety of events over thecourse of the summer which we hope you will be able to join us for. Kathleen Caddick andHeidi König will be joining us for an afternoon each. Our dear friend and generous supporterProfessor Chris Orr will be joining us for our summer party and giving a talk on the subjecton which he is a complete authority – printmaking – and Anthony Frost, with all of his energyand Joie de Vivre, will return to Budleigh with two thespian colleagues to perform ‘Art’ (TheReading) after his very successful exhibition at the gallery earlier this year.

The year will draw to a close with an exhibition of the British Illustrators over the last 200years during the Literary Festival in September, we will then move into October with a previewof Norman Ackroyd’s 2010 box set and close the year with an exhibition of Japanese printsfeaturing the work of Nana Shiomi amongst others.

I would like to thank Chris for his contribution to the catalogue, Molly and Adrian for puttingtheir passion to paper, and for all of our contributing artists and friends who make the BrookGallery what it is today.

Angela Yarwood: Proprietor of the Brook Gallery, May 2010

Sir Peter Blake's latest release: I Love You is a set of four limited edition silkscreen prints, each available individually and asa set. Blake uses collaged letters taken from different sources to spell out the immortal words I Love You. These worksreflect a sentiment and warmth that is inherent throughout the artist's work. His use of mismatching letters from differentsources is a classic motif in his oeuvre, reflecting his love of collage and collecting.

Signed limited edition silkscreen prints. 15 colours. Gold and silver leaf, embossing, diamond dust.

Sir Peter Blake

I Love You - white undusted

Limited edition silkscreen printPublished: 2010

Image size: 1210mm x 250mmPaper size: 1360mm x 420mm

Edition size: 175

£995

Found Art Union Jack II

Digital PrintPublished: 2010

Image size: 1070mm x 700mmFramed size: 1280mm x 1080mm

Edition size: 25

£4,200

I Love You - black diamond dust



Edition size: 175

£1,650

We have seen the most vibrant and stimulating use of colour in Heidi König's work over the time that we have been luckyenough to display it in the gallery.

Heidi was brought up and educated in Germany but was first introduced to printing through her grandfather who producedmany woodcuts and linocuts.

Her inspiration comes largely from travel, having come to Britain after travelling around Australia and South East Asia. Sincecompleting her studies at Brighton and the Slade School of Fine Art, Heidi has received numerous awards and commissionsfor her work. Her monotypes, etchings and paintings can be found in public and private collections all over the world.

Heidi König

It's all about us

Original monotypeImage size: 395mm x 330mm

Image size is paper sizePrinted on Somerset

£475

Bounce


Size is image size, 8 cm borderPrinted on Somerset

£475

Memories of Marrakesh


Size is image size, 8 cm borderPrinted on Somerset

£475

Kathleen Caddick was born in 1937 in Liverpool but grew up in Buckinghamshire. Having studied at High Wycombe Schoolof Art she worked as a graphic design lecturer and was an examiner for City & Guilds before she started to paint full-timein 1968. Kathleen published her first etching in the late 1970's. Her natural style of concise line and delicate hand colouringgreatly lend themselves to etching, her chosen medium, and have rightly won her an international following. Her prints havebeen exhibited and sold throughout Europe and the rest of the world.

Kathleen Caddick

A Walk through the Wood

EtchingPublished: 1982


Edition : A/P XIV/XV

£350

Winter Flowers



Edition : 75/75

£290

Reflections



Edition : XX/XXV

£390

Donald Hamilton Fraser

Donald sadly passed away in September 2009. He exhibited his highly acclaimed work in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Zurichand many other cities around the world. The list of galleries that own or have exhibited his work is phenomenal. Donaldparticipated in many of the most significant exhibitions of British work including the Royal Academy's 25 Years of BritishPainting, where he was also a Royal Academician and a trustee since 1995. Donald's predominant subject matter waslandscape. Here he combined his Scottish decent and his affinity with French painting from his study there in the 1950's.This is greatly reflected in his style and execution.

Wester Ross

Silkscreen printPublished: 2008


Edition size: 175

£ 750.00

Kinlochbervie Red Sky



Edition size: 175

£650.00

Yellow Spinnaker

Seascape silkscreenPublished: 2003


Edition size: 195

£450.00

Deborah Treliving

Deborah’s training in Fine Art, painting and printmaking was at Bath Academy of Art, where her print tutors were Jack Shirreff,etching, and Stephen Russ, screenprinting. Following her graduation she taught Art and Design in Bromley, and then printmakingfor 18 years in the School of Art and Design at South Devon College. She printed at the Dartington print-workshop for six yearsfrom 1996, and became a Member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen in 1998. Exhibiting her work in Japan & her visit there hada profound influence on her subsequent work, resulting in exhibitions across Devon during 2001.

Most recently Deborah is known for her vibrant collagraph and carborundum prints. The rich texturing of her plates resultsin a tactile quality to her prints, which are frequently embellished with hand-colouring. Her passion for colour is evident inher New Horizons portfolio which is only available through The Brook Gallery.

Duet I

MonotypeImage size: 750mm x 580mm

Edition size: 1/1

£750

New Horizon 2


Edition size: 1/1

£750

Sunflower


Edition size: 1/1

£750

BHF Mending Broken Hearts | Vol 1 Breath of Life

Clare's InspirationBy Maurice Cockrill

Published: 2010Image size: 585mm x 760mm

Edition size: 150

£600

Love HeartsBy Brad Faine


Edition size: 150

£500

Healing GardenBy Bruce McLean


Edition size: 150

£950

Soulless Stars CascadeBy John Hoyland


Edition size: 150

£1,100

A selection of Volume I of the Mending Broken Hearts portfolios: Breath of Life. Comprises of 15 original limited editionsilkscreen prints by a unique group of Britain's leading contemporary artists. Each artwork has been created around thetheme of ‘mending broken hearts’. All profits from sales will be donated to the British Heart Foundation. Volume II: Joie deVivre is due to be released in early 2011.

Artworks are available individually or as part of a beautifully presented boxed set.

CalypsoBy Brendan Neiland


Edition size: 150

£600

Madonna and HeartBy Duggie Fields


Edition size: 150

£600

Take Art for the HeartBy Tom Phillips


Edition size: 150

£700

When I first read the roster for this show at the Brook Gallery, I mistakenly read it as “Hockneyor Moore.” I was plagued at school with that joke “Orr what?” It`s true that David Hockneyhas never made sculpture nor Henry Moore made highly coloured work, but this is the ageof the coalition and they are both superb printmakers. Realising eventually that I wasalongside these two illustrious artists, not just a conjunction, I got to thinking about mymaxim; “all Art aspires to Sculpture”. My idea is that whether it is a Painting, Sculpture orPrint, it has to stand up. It has to be made so that it doesn’t fall over in both the physical andemotional sense. So, hopefully I will be upstanding with some of my latest efforts.

For me it has been the year of returning to an old love - lithography. Like many old loves itcan be highly unpredictable. The process of drawing on large blocks of limestone (averageage 150 million years) has to be done in the workshop and is more akin to performance art.The processing of stones to make them ready to print can be affected by humidity,temperature or unseen genies. Printing lithographs is hard skilled work. The reason thatartists have indulged in this process is for those who love to draw it provides the greatestfidelity to their intentions and when all the variables go right, wonderful works of art can becreated.

Chris Orr, May 2010

Hockney, Orr, Moore

David Hockney

Pleading for the child, 1969From Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brother’s Grimm

EtchingImage size: 267mm x 255mmPaper size: 455mm x 310mm

Edition size: 100

£1,880

He Tore Himself in Two 1969From Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brother’s Grimm

EtchingImage size: 446mm x 297mm

Edition size: 100

£1,750

Etching is the Subject, 1966-1967From The Blue Guitar portfolio

Etching, softground etching, and aquatint onInveresk mould-made paper


Edition size: 200

£3,525

David Hockney was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1937 to a working class family. He went on to have a prize-winning careeras a student at the Royal College of Art. By his mid-20s, Hockney had already become one of the most critically acclaimedcontemporary artists in Britain.

David Hockney's early reputation was established almost as much by his printmaking as his painting. His early etchings, suchas Marriage and Grimm's Fairy Tales, demonstrated his extraordinary skill as a draughtsman; his subsequent career as aprintmaker has shown him to be equally versatile in his use of medium as he is experimental in his artistic approach.

Chris Orr

Born in Islington, London, Chris graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1967 with an MA in printmaking. He began hiscareer as an artist publishing prints, exhibiting his work and teaching part-time at many Art Schools. His subjects are variedbut behind much of his work is a story from which the work was inspired.

The last 15 years have seen significant national recognition of Chris’s work; in 1995, Chris was elected a Royal Academicianand in 1998 was appointed Professor of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art. Chris was awarded an MBE in the 2008Honours List and also awarded a Senior Fellowship and Professor Emeritus from the Royal College of Art.

Eden, Ark and Evolution

Etching with hand colouringPublished: 2009

Image size: 600mm x 800mmEdition size: 30

£800

Black Dog Looking West

Paper cut and drypointPublished: 2009


£800

Lambeth



£750

Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore was born on July 30, 1898, in Castleford, Yorkshire. Despite an early desire to become a sculptor,Moore began his career as a teacher in Castleford. After military service in World War I he attended Leeds School of Art onan ex-serviceman's grant. He was best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around theworld as public works of art.

His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore'sworks are usually suggestive of the female body, apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups. Manyinterpreters liken the undulating form of his reclining figures to the landscape and hills of his birthplace, Yorkshire.

Reclining Figure | Plate 4, 1977From ‘The Reclining Figure’ Portfolio 1977-1978

Etching and aquatintImage size: 541mm x 445mm

Edition size: 25

£2,500

Reclining Figure Architectural Background IV, 1977

ScreenprintImage size: 314mm x 377mm

Edition size: 100

£1,950

Elephant Skull Plate XI, 1969Skull sideview – Jaw articulation

EtchingImage size: 254mm x 200mm

Edition size: 100

£1,000

CCaarrbboorruunndduumm A fine abrasive grit glued to the plate, which holds the ink. Printed intaglio.

CChhiinnee--ccoolllléé Previously glued Japanese papers adhere to the printing paper at the time of printing, as the inked plate is wound through the press.

CCoollllaaggrraapphhss The plate, of card, Perspex or PVC, is built up using various materials, including sand, metal, plaster, different glues, collaged papers which are glued and sealed, before being inked up and printed. Printing can be intaglio and/or relief.

CCoollllaaggrraapphh--ccoolllléé Previously printed Collagraphs are collaged to Somerset paper.

EEddiittiioonn The agreed total number of any one image printed by the artist. Each print is numbered in a certain way; e.g. 5/10 would indicate print number 5 out of an edition of 10 prints. A/P indicates Artist’s proof. This is in addition to the numbered edition.

IInnttaagglliioo The image is bitten by acid or cut with a tool into metal or plastic. The whole surface of the plate is inked, and wiped clean but leaving the ink in the cut lines below the surface. Dampened paper is placed over the inked up plate which is then wound through the printing press. Printing requires greater pressure than that used in relief printing.

LLiinnooccuutt A method of obtaining a relief print by cutting, or etching with caustic soda, into a piece of lino.

MMoonnoopprriinntt Only one print is taken from the worked plate.

MMoonnoottyyppee A unique image is made on a metal or Perspex plate by painting with oil based inks, and printed onto paper using an etching press. Only one print is possible from each image.

OOrriiggiinnaall pprriinnttss Artists' prints should not be confused with reproductions, which are sometimes sold as prints and are only photomechanical copies of an artist's original work.

RReelliieeff pprriinnttiinngg On wood or lino the image is created by cutting away areas to be left white. The remaining raised areas are inked with a roller and then the paper placed on top. It is printed using light pressure in a press or by burnishing the back of the paper with a barren.

SSccrreeeenn pprriinnttiinngg A stencil is created on fine mesh on a screen. Ink is pulled through the mesh using a squeegee onto the paper underneath.

TTaappaa This is a Polynesian paper, and comes from the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree.

VViissccoossiittyy Inks are mixed with different oils to apply colour to different levels of the plate, producing exciting colour juxtapositions.

WWooooddccuutt A relief print made on side-grain soft wood. Knives, woodcutting tools, and chisels are used to cut away the areas to remain white. Woodcuts are bold and should not be confused with wood engravings, which are much finer and made by cutting across the end grain of hard wood.

Definitions of printing terms

There's no doubt about it. The Brook Gallery is a really dangerous place. It ought to haveGovernment Health Warning or some sort of ASBO. No. It's not the staff. They're great.Kindness personified. And the coffee's great. It's the stuff on the walls you have to watch outfor. It's like they're calling you over: “Look at me”, they seem to be saying, “Am I not super?I'm an original print in a limited edition. I was made by .........” (Insert here name of artist, e.g.Gill, Matisse, Miro, Kandinsky, Picasso... the list is endless.) “There's only about 3 copies ofme left at £.... a throw so I'm an absolute snip. You simply must have me. OK, I know I didn'tcost you £27 million, but I'm still the real thing and NO I'm not a bl**dy poster!”

So there you are. The next thing you know you've got a house full of prints and the nameson your wall remind you of the index to The Shock of the New † and you've become aregistered caffeine addict into the bargain. So, just give in. You can only harm your bankbalance and the way things are going it would be a good idea to spend your money beforeit's taken off you anyway.

Molly and Adrian Lee, May 2010

† Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change (Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1991) pp448.

Words from a collector...

…and not forgetting, Terry Frost, Anthony Frost, NormanAckroyd, Eileen Cooper, Paula Rego, Mychael Barratt,Trevor Price, Julia Manning, Anita Klein, Gail Brodholt, SusiePerring, Sonia Rollo, and all our other wonderful artists.

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