Alan Birch

Please welcome St Duvet to the brotherhood. His life story will appear in the next couple of weeks.  Watch this space as more saints will materialise.

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Submit your own personal saint in the humorous spirit of the exhibition. This can be a drawing, painting, collage of digital image. A selection of the work submitted will be added to my website, and at the end of the show one work from those over 16 years and one from those under the age […]

From14th January to 28th June 2015, I will be showing  an ongoing series of contemporary saints inspired by work from the Wellcome collection. The series of 20 hand coloured drypoints will expand  ( on line ) over the duration of the show with new saints being added .               […]

Over the the last two years I have been working on a series of prints, initially monoprints, which take their starting point from the collection of saintly wood carvings in the Wellcome Collection at The Science Museum in London . The depiction of saints is a subject I have been long fascinated with, whether in […]

Stuck for last minute presents? Can’t face the Trafford Centre. Printmaking vouchers available from Prospect Studio. For the man  ( or woman ) who has always wanted to use the phrase ” Come up and see my etchings!” The vouchers will be valid for any day booked in 2015 and will include one days tuition, […]

Pupils from St Mary’s Catholic High School in Astley spent the day with printmaker Alan Birch  enhancing their coursework. The  25 pupils from Year 10, 12 and 13 worked tirelessly throughout the day using their themes of natural forms and the figure to produce a range of prints. Techniques explored included drypoint, relief, chine collie, […]

In conjunction with Big Draw 2014, print maker Alan Birch spent true day in Touchstones, Rochdale working with families producing a mass of relief prints. Artists were encouraged to use the  detailed pencil drawings of  Natalie Giannikitzakis as  inspiration for colourful  surface prints, using wallpaper to create the silhouettes. Over 140 artists produced prints, some […]

5 printmakers from Prospect Studio took part in the National print exchange organised by Hot Bed Press. Artists Peter Cave, Jo Beggs, Jacqui Fortnum, Katie Blair and Carolyn Murphy produced an edition of prints which will be swapped with printmakers  working out of print studios from all over the country. This annual event has become a […]

Members of Prospect Studio print workshop haver been busy working on new prints. Many of these prints will be seen at Craft Fairs in Chorlton ( St Clements Church ) on the 6th of December 2014, 11am-4.00pm and The Boo Theatre in Watefoot on the 13th and 14th of December, 12pm to 5pm. Artists will […]

VIsitors to Manchester Museum were able to create their own colourful relief prints as part of Dinosaur Day . A range of activities including story telling, creating sock dinosaurs, fossil handling alongside printmaking, saw huge numbers of visitors taking part. Over 120 artists young, and old took part, all  leaving happily with their prints under […]

Over 300 visitors attended the 10th open studio at Prospect Studio.  To commemorate the event a limited edition of prints and ink drawings were produced by Jill Randall , Alan Birch and Liam  Spencer which were raffled off to raise funds for Rossendale Rays, a local special needs swimming group based in Rossendale. The generosity of visitors […]

Over 300 visitors  attended the 10th open studio at Prospect Studio. Jill Randall showed her recent prints and shed constructions, Liam Spencer showed a selection of paintings and Alan Birch revealed some new Saint monoprints and colour lino prints!  The studios celebrated their tenth year in the Rossendale Valley, following their relocation from Salford, with visitors […]

Pupils from Blessed Trinity Roman Catholic College, produced some excellent work as part of a printing day with artist Alan Birch. The pupils from year 9-11 worked through a variety of print techniques ranging from drypoint to relief and chine colle developing images from coursework. Their drawing skills shone through their work , and they […]

Newcomers to the printing process, spent the morning printing intaglio plates onto Christmas cards at Touchstones in Rochdale. The group of 17 adults explored the intaglio process producing some excellent cards, some even ventured into combining relief and intaglio techniques. Most artists were able to complete two cards, with others taking 3 home. A great […]