SADIE TIERNEY – Making new woodcut prints at Rabley

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We have been delighted to welcome artist Sadie Tierney to be in residence in the Rabley Drawing Centre print–room making stunning woodcuts for her forthcoming exhibition ‘Of Night and Light and the Half-light’.

Monumental in scale, she has honed the blocks and cut the images using hand and mechanical tools, never loosing the freshness of the drawing translated from her sketched and sometimes drawn directly onto the plywood sheets.

 

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Jane Harris ‘Gleamers’, New woodcuts in the making

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New Publication from Rabley Editions by Jane Harris

JH31 Jane Harris 'Gleamers' Bronze Diptych 75 x 35cm WEB SIZE

JANE HARRIS

Gleamers, Bronze, Diptych 2016

Woodcut, Two Prints 35 x 35cm, Diptych size 35 x 73.5cm

Printed on 270gsm Somerset Velvet from 4 blocks.

Edition 30, Published by Rabley Editions May 2016

JH30 Jane Harris 'Gleamers' Diptych 75 x 35cm WEB SIZE

JANE HARRIS

Gleamers, Silver, Diptych 2016

Woodcut, Two Prints 35 x 35cm, Diptych size 35 x 73.5cm

Printed on 270gsm Somerset Velvet from 4 blocks.

Edition 30, Published by Rabley Editions May 2016

http://www.rableydrawingcentre.com/drawingsandprints/artist/gallery/432/jane-harris/print

The story of the prints

In Spring 2016 Rabley Drawing Centre welcomed Jane Harris for her first solo exhibition in the gallery. Her response was ‘Separate Arrangements’, a collection of new works on paper. This series of drawings included elliptical pools of intense watercolour with the burnished black of graphite.

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