The Print Show

Flowers Graphics is pleased to announce a group show of limited edition prints and monoprints by established gallery artists from 12 November-03 January at Flowers Gallery, Cork Street.

Featuring works from the archives to the present day, it will showcase striking new publications by Glen Baxter, Bernard Cohen, Tom Hammick, Nicola Hicks, Lucy Jones, Freya Payne, Carol Robertson, Michael Sandle, Richard Smith and Tai-Shan Schierenberg.

Each limited edition work is the result of a close collaboration between the artist and a specially selected master printer. Notable partnerships include Richard Smith's aquatints, printed with Maurice Payne in New York; Carol Robertson's monoprints produced with Kip Gresham at Cambridge Print Studio; and Bernard Cohen's lithographs from his Place Games series, hand printed with Shark's Inc., with whom he has been producing prints since 1969.

"For forty years, Bud Shark has sensitively guided me through those processes. No one will ever work alongside me when I am painting, but Bud Shark's skill and knowledge and imagination have enabled me to perform on a very unique stage." Bernard Cohen

Carol Robertson will present a selection from her series of 30 new monoprints, entitled Edzn, to coincide with her new exhibition Circular Stories at Flowers Gallery, Kingsland Road (28 November-10 January). Robertson has made prints using circular motifs following a recent trip to Central America, where she visited Maya archaeological sites in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize. These mark the significant impact of the exquisitely carved and painted Mayan calendars she encountered during this visit.

Flowers Graphics was established in the early 1980s to encourage gallery artists, who may or may not have been print-makers, to produce works in the medium. Running a varied and challenging publishing programme, Flowers Graphics works with various master printers across the country to produce editions of prints by gallery artists. Over the years this has also included publishing works by renowned printmakers Tim Mara, Stephen Chambers and Freya Payne.

The recently reinstated Flowers Print of the Month initiative makes a specially selected fine art print available to purchase at a reduced price for the whole month for subscribers to the promotional mailing list. For more information on how to join, contact graphics@flowersgallery.com.

"A limited edition print is, for many, the ideal way to start a serious art collection. It enables the collector to own artworks produced by well-established artists, which may otherwise be out of their reach."  - Karen Demuth, Flowers Graphics