Shropshire rural imagery still continues to inspire me

Shropshire rural imagery still continues to inspire me.  In recent months I've exhibited etchings at the Linden Hall Studio Contemporary Gallery in Kent, RBSA Prize exhibition Birmingham and Church Stretton.   Future plans for this growing series of etchings to be revealed soon!
Here's my Hedgerow to Hillside (The Wrekin) etching plate being inked and printed..

Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Morley Gallery, London

Wow - its all go on the exhibition front! 

 

Two etchings from this edition have been selected for the Victoria and Albert Museum's permanent collection and it will also be exhibited in a Printmakers Council exhibition at Morley Gallery (part of Morley College) in London.http://www.morleycollege.ac.uk/the-gallery 31 October-11 November 2017.

 'Bare Mountain'

I'm currently exhibiting etchings at Linden Hall Studio, Contemporary Art Gallery, 9-30 July, Deal, Kent.

'Hedgerow to hillside' - etching

West coast of France - sketching

Beautiful and ever changing light on the sea here at Vaux sur Mer.  The sun, clouds and, I think, sandbanks, affect the colour of the sea.   It changes from indigo to very pale green, to golden and turquoise.

 

My etching entitled 'Homed and homeless' has been selected for the Metropolis exhibition at the RBSA in Birmingham

I am delighted to have my etching, 'Homed and homeless',selected for the Metropolis exhibition 2017 at the RBSA (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists). The exhibition runs from
 23 Aug - 30.

http://www.rbsa.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/metropolis-2017-sponsored-by-maguire-jackson-1/ 

 'Homed and homeless'

My metal plate etching....

Exhibition in Deal, Kent 9-30 July 2017

I'm exhibiting 3 landscape etchings with the Printmakers Council at Linden Hall Studio - a contemporary art gallery in Deal, Kent, 9-30 July.

In the RBSA Prize exhibition June 2017

A lovely exhibition at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists' gallery in Birmingham on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter /http://www.rbsa.org.uk/about-us/

More etchings - Shropshire landscape

 The Wrekin

 Shadows on the Wrekin

plate and print on the etching press

etchings - trees and shadows

 sketch of trees and shadows - late afternoon long shadows and winter trees

I then used diluted coffee and painted an image (based on this sketch) onto a piece of aluminium plate.   I rolled Baldwin's 'Big Ground' over the top and baked it all in the oven.   Then I put the plate in warm water and rubbed away the ground which was onto of the coffee. See below...

The image revealed on the plate!

Then I placed the plate in a mordant to etch the image into the metal.   See here some plates in the copper sulphate saline solution...

Then I inked up and printed the plates using my etching press.

Currently exhibiting a woodcut/collagraph at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery, Birmingham until 12 November

At the RBSA opening of the Print Prize Exhibition: 'Our biennial Print Prize exhibition aims to champion and celebrate the exciting range of contemporary printmakers producing original printed artworks within the UK.' 

Open until 12 November 2016.

Drypoint of Cortona - Tuscan hilltop town

Some painting in Italy

 Sketching early evening at Cortona Square

 afternoon sketching

strong colours in Cortona square

Pen and ink sketch of Cortona from hotel

Watercolour sketch from Cortona Square Garibaldi

Shropshire Hills - graphite study

Wolverhampton is close to the beautiful Shropshire hills.   This is from the top of the Long Mynd begind Church Stretton.

RBSA Birmingham

'Night Garden' - reduction lino print currently on show at the RBSA Birmingham until 16 July.

http://www.rbsa.org.uk/whats-on/how-to-find-us/

 

A good exhibition review by Katherine Dixson

http://www.waybeyondwords.co.uk/charming-exhibition-from-linda-nevill-at-wolverhamptons-asylum-gallery/

'Charming exhibition from Linda Nevill at Wolverhampton’s Asylum Gallery' reviewed by Katherine Dixson

'I’ve just taken the opportunity to view printmaker Linda Nevill‘s Florilegium: my garden exhibition at the Asylum Gallery in Wolverhampton.  Tucked away up a side street in the Chapel Ash quarter, the single-garage-sized space is entirely white, letting the artwork tell its story in peace...' 

 

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 My charm of goldfinches

Linda Nevill and Katherine Dixson

 

Florilegium - My Garden exhibition at the Asylum Gallery, Wolverhampton, just before it opened...

Florilegium: my garden

My exhibition at the Asylum Art Gallery, Wolverhampton has now finished. Many thanks to Corin and all his team.

I had a great turn out on the opening night and a lot of positive comments about my artwork. Here are some taken  photos just before the show opened.

 In my studio printing the monotype on my etching press.