On Friday I visited the Bankside Gallery in London and viewed the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers
The exhibition opened on 7th February and continues to 26th February and I'd very much recommend this exhibition to anybody interested in fine art printmaking.
- There are a lot of high quality artworks in this exhibition.
- More importantly many of them are very affordable (i.e. less than £500 - with some less than £100)
The Society of Wood Engravers was founded in 1920 by artists including Eric Gill, Gwen Raverat, Robert Gibblings, Philip Hagreen and Lucien Pissarro. A break during the war years and then again in the 1970s meant that their annual exhibition ceased for a time; since their revival in 1984, they have built a reputation for excellence, attracting exhibitors and collectors from around the world
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| View of one corner of the exhibition |
I've included an album of my photos from the exhibition in a folder - Society of Wood Engravers Annual Exhibition 2023 - on my Facebook Page.
It starts with images of the prizewinners followed by gallery views of the wood engravings in the exhibition.
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| View of some of the artworks in the exhibition - indicating the variation in size |
I'm somewhat puzzled by where I can find a list of the prizewinners on what appears to be the two websites of the Society of Wood Engravers
Images from this annual exhibition can also be found on the https://www.societyofwoodengravers.co.uk/shop or the Bankside Gallery's exhibition page https://www.banksidegallery.com/exhibitions/92-the-society-of-wood-engravers/works
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| SWA Feature Artist 2023: Angie Lewin |
The feature artist in the exhibition is Angie Lewin
In 2006 I was elected to The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers and in 2008 to The Society of Wood Engravers. In 2010 I was elected to The Art Workers Guild. In 2016 I was elected to The Royal Watercolour Society.
What's rather odd is that the artworks are not all wood engravings.
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