March and April happenings..

Hello there

A few things going on over the next month or so..new commissions, events and more workshops...I'm not going to mention the weather..

New Commission
I have just completed a new linocut commission for the Sheffield Children's Festival 2013. It will appear on the booklets, and on various poster-boards around the city. I have to keep this image under wraps until June when the festival starts! It was a lot of fun to do.

Events
In April I'm going to be selling my work at the following events:

Mary's Marvellous Craft & Vintage Market, St Marys, Bramall Lane, Sheffield - Saturday 6th April 2013 10am-4pm - This time it is an Art & Craft special, with the majority of stalls featuring artists and crafters from Sheffield and beyond.

Pop-up Print Shop, Cowlishaw Works, Sharrow Vale Road, Sheffield - Sunday 21st April 2013, 12-4pm - Myself and We Live Here (aka Jonathan Wilkinson) will have a one-off pop-up shop at Cowlishaw Works (behind Gilberts Pine Emporium, where I run my linocut workshops) on Sharrow Vale Market day. Follow the signs round the side of Gilberts to find us!

New Prints
'Fox In The Snow' - A3 poster-print. Influences by the Belle & Sebastian song of the same name and the urban fox that prowls round our neighbourhood! Available in my Folksy shop and at fairs.

Workshops
I have new workshops in place for May, June and July. Details and how to book are as follows:

Saturday May 18th 2013 - 'Introduction to Linocut Printing' workshop at The Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, in conjunction with the Leonard Beaumont print exhibition that is on there. At the end of the day you'll have your very own 10x15cm one-colour linocut print! Ten places are available (£35 each), all materials are included, and you need to book through Museums Sheffield, via this link. 

Saturday June 15th 2013 - 'Introduction to Linocut Printing' workshop at Cowlishaw Works, Sheffield. At the end of the day you'll have your very own 10x15cm one-colour linocut print! Eight places are available (£35 each), and all materials are included. If you'd like to book a place then email me on jgprintworks@hotmail.com

Saturday July 6th 2013 - 'Advanced Linocut Printing (2-colour)' workshop at The Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, in conjunction with the Leonard Beaumont print exhibition that is on there. At the end of the day you'll have your very own 10x15cm two-colour linocut print! Ten places are available (£35 each), all materials are included, and you need to book through Museums Sheffield, via this link. *Please note* All participants should have done linocut printing before, either at one of my workshops or elsewhere. 
 

'Grinders' by Leonard Beaumont

'Editions' exhibition

The kind people at 'Made North' have asked me to take part in the 'Editions' print exhibition they have organised at the West Yorkshire Print Workshop in Mirfield. It features artwork from all sorts of talented printmakers from the north of the UK, including Leaf City Press, Sarah Abbott, Nick Deakin, Butterscotch & Beesting, EMA and many more. The exhibition runs from 28th Feb to 30th March 2013. I have five prints on show, and all prints in the exhibition are available to buy.

Our Favourite Places feature

So, I'm very flattered to have been featured on a new website called 'Our Favourite Places', put together by Eleven Design to talk about things they really like in Sheffield. It is a lovely site, with all sorts of interesting topics like food, art, films, shopping and the city's geography.

As well as an interview, there are also a selection of photos of me at work, taken by the talented Nigel Barker. He made me look almost human. Well done Nigel!

And thanks again to Eleven Design. Keep your eyes peeled on this website for more interesting stuff....

http://www.ourfaveplaces.co.uk

Handmade Living mag mention..

I was very happy to find out that 'Handmade Living' magazine have chosen to feature my 'Sheffield City View' poster-print in the 'Emporium' section of their next issue (April 2013, out Feb 28th)!

Valentine Offer! - (Sorry sold out!)

***SORRY, BUT ALL HAVE NOW GONE***

So, in genuine valentine-spirited-ness (rather than an attempt to coerce people) I am giving away copies of my 'Czech Heart' linocut print with the next 10 orders of any hand-pressed linocut print in my Folksy shop. They are orange, red or blue. Add a note with an order saying 'have a heart' (or any other bad 'heart'-based pun) if you want one...

Donkey madness and February activities!!

My second post of the month. Crikey. That is a rarity.

Donkey Madness
Anyhow, i have spent a lot of this month so far whittling the lino, and I seem to have been concentrating on them there donkeys. I have created two new prints entitled 'Donkey Collage No.1' and 'Wandering Donkeys'. The first is an experiment with composition, basically, breaking up the traditional layout, and an attempt to delve into donkey-world.

The second is simply a bunch of donkeys having a stroll. Nothing more. But I guess I did want to hint at their personalities, and hopefully that comes across too!

I hope you like them...

Both are now available in my Folksy shop, in various formats:

Donkey Collage No.1

Wandering Donkeys hand-pressed linocut

Wandering Donkeys poster-print (orange/brown/blue)

Wandering Donkeys poster-print (pink/green//blue)

Wandering Donkeys poster-print (red/grey/black)

Fairs

I am doing a couple of craft fairs in February. i have missed them a bit, with the festive break, so it'll be good to get back to them!

Saturday 9th Feb 2013, Mary's Marvellous Craft & Vintage Market, 10am-4pm, St Marys Church, Bramall Lane, Sheffield - Best craft fair in Sheffield, with great vintage wares and really good food too!

Saturday 23rd Feb 2013, Pretty Dandy Flea, 10.30am-6pm, *NOTE VENUE CHANGE* The Broadway Cinema & Creative Quarter building on Stoney Street, Nottingham - I have heard very good things about this fair. It'll be my first in nottingham too, so looking forward to that.

New year, new print..

Happy new year to you!

Not much to report yet, but I have just completed my first new print of 2013, a 2-colour hand-pressed linocut print entitled 'Freddy Cloud'. In real life he is the best friend of our cat Otto. He belongs to a neighbour, and they play together an awful lot. His real name is Freddy, but we call him 'Freddy Cloud' as he is a big cat, but when you pick him up, he weighs hardly anything. Light as a cloud!

I've now put the print in my Folksy shop. 'Freddy Cloud' 2-colour linocut print

Might make a nice companion for 'Otto Sleeping'?