The prints of Gillian Ayres will be on display at the Turnpike Gallery in Leigh for April and May. This life affirming show features over 40 works on paper from the Alan Cristea Gallery in London. Gillian who is best known for her vivid, painterly abstract paintings is still working well into her 80’s and […]
Feel inspired to print ? Pop along with family members for free printing workshops inspired by Blake at John Rylands on Deansgate. Workshops take place on 5th and 11th April. All welcome.
Families used their artistic skills and imagination to produce prints at Manchester Museum inspired by the Breeds exhibition. The show which has a week left to run features 6 breeds of pedigree dogs and these breeds featured in relief prints and intaglio prints. The colourful relief prints made from wallpaper showed dogs wearing items of […]
A dedicated bunch of artists spent the Easter weekend in the Whitworth Art Gallery, producing a copious body of prints ranging from dry points and mono prints to collographs. Using the work of John Piper as inspiration some rich inky dry points and mono prints were produced and vivid sensual collographs. Enough work was produced […]
Over the Easter holidays, Alan Birch will be running printing workshops At Manchester Museum . The workshops will use as their starting point, the current exhibition Breeds, looking at the world of Pedigree dogs. Families will be asked to print colourful dog silhouette prints and also to create dog people on intaglio prints. The workshops […]
Over 40 students from Blackburn College recently visited Prospect Studio to view the work of Alan Birch. Liam Spencer and Jill Randall. Pupils toured the studios, gleaning career advice from the artists and asking relevant questions for their course.
In March 2013 Alan Birch led a series of printmaking workshops for adults at John Rylands Library in Manchester. Using the work of William Blake, artists engraved copper plates and later hand coloured some drypoints. Some excellent prints were produced and would not look out of police next to the Blakes. Alan Birch will be […]
Pupils from the Blessed Thomas Holford School in Altrincham spent the day trying out print techniques with artist Alan Birch. BTEC pupils worked on a variety of collograph and dry points, whilst Year 10 pupils experimenterd with drypoints. Themes were landscape and images inspired by other cultures. An excellent body of work was produced which […]
Pupils from the sixth form and GCSE classes spent a day printing with Alan Birch at school. Studies from sketchbooks were used to create collographs, dry points and chine collie images. These prints will be used to compliment GCSE coursework and A Level work.
Alan Birch worked with members of Blackpool Art Society to produce a range of images using a variety of print techniques. Members were introduced to collograph, perspex drypoint, chine collie and card engraving during a busy day. Artists worked tirelessly throughout the day, many completing over 6 prints.
The current exhibition of landscape paintings at the Whitworth in Manchester has inspired several groups to produce prints ay the Whitworth and Manchester Central Library. For Wellbeing week, a range of artists , some students and staff from Manchester University experienced printmaking for the first time in sessions let by Alan Birch. […]
Regular printmakers from Prospect Studio worked with Yorkshire printer Stuart Brocklehurst for a weekend in February. Over 2 days artists produced 6 colour reduction lino cuts, some printed by hand as demonstrated by Stuart. Stuart demonstrated his hand burnishing technique and showed examples of his landscape prints. A wide variety of prints were made , […]
Feel the urge to print? Alan Birch will be running workshops at various locations within the North West over the next few months. Workshops will be taking place at:- Whitworth Art Gallery in March linked to John Piper exhibition www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/ ( adults ) John Rylands Library in March and April in conjunction with the […]
Pupils from Cavendish Primary School visited the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester to work with artist Alan birch to produce some exquisite relief prints. The prints using patterned wallpapers, some incredibly from the Whitworth collection of sample books from over 100 years ago, took their inspiration from Mehndi body decoration. The pupils were well prepared […]
Teachers from Manchester Catholic secondary and sixth form colleges came together at Loreto sixth form college in Hulme to explore the world of print. Exploring the theme of landscape and pattern, and working alongside artist Helen Hallows, teachers expressed themselves freely through the technique of collograph, relief and drypoint. Using wallpapers. water based inks and […]