Aberystwyth Printmakers Print Collectors Club
Established in 2013, Aberystwyth Printmakers Print Collector's Club is a scheme that provides members of the public, the opportunity to purchase high quality original prints at affordable prices. Working in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Croft, over the last ten years, so far nine artists including the internationally renowned Welsh artist Mary Lloyd Jones, Ian Phillips, Karen Pearce, Stuart Evans, Flora McLachlan, Gini Wade, Shani Rhys James MBE, Ruth Jen Evans and Pete Monaghan have contributted to the scheme. Not surprisingly, it was not possible to work with any artists in 2020 - due to the COVID-19 lockdown.
Artists invited to participate are asked to make a lithograph that reflects their own art practice. Drawing directly on to stone and / or plate, the images are processed and proofed by Croft and subsequently are printed in limited editions of around 25 - 40 impressions. As the images are proofed the artist decides upon the number of colour runs required and indicates which papers are preferred. Whilst prints undoubtedly are based upon sketches made by the artists - these prints are drawn as independent original images and are not considered as reproductions.
All income raised through the sale of these prints helps Aberystwyth Printmakers to continue promoting printmaking, run classes and provide facilities for printmakers living in Aberystwyth, mid and West Wales.
Prints are £75 each unframed - please make cheques out to Aberystwyth Printmakers Ltd. For mail order please add £10.00 for Special Delivery (UK) Payment can also be made by PayPal or by electronic transfer - contact Paul Croft for details.
'Combing Her Hair' Shani Rhys James MBE (2019)
Combing Her Hair is a single-run lithograph by the well known Welsh artist Shani Rhys James MBE.
Shani was born in Melbourne in 1953, but has been living and working in Wales for much of her adult career. Based in Llangafdan in Powys, she is considered be one of the most exciting and successful painters of her generation, and one of the most significant artists current working in Wales. Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Cambrian Academy in 1994, she exhibits her work at galleries across the UK and abroad.
For this print, Shani says she was inspired by a woodcut of a woman combing her hair by the Japanese artist Hashiguchi Goyo (1880 - 1921), a print that she had seen exhibited at the British Museum. in the original woodcut, she was interested in the decorative element of the dressing gown, but for ths lithograph, the woman has a spotty dressing gown instead, which she feels gives it a more contemporary appearance and makes it more expressionistic. The cat in the lithograph was added to balance the composition.
Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Croft, Combing Her Hair has been drawn with lithographic crayon and tusche wash and printed in black and white from stone in a limited edition of 25 impressions on Hahnemuhle Paper. Just ONE copy left as of January 2023!
Allt Goch Y Mynydd Pete Monaghan
Printed as 15 impressions on Hahnemuhle Paper 400mm x 500mm
Allt Goch Y Mynydd Pete Monaghan
Printed as 15 impressions on Rives Grey 400mm x 500mm
Anfarwolion - The Immortals Pete Monaghan
Edition of 30 on Hahnemuhle Paper and Rives Cream 380mm x 480mm
Combing her Hair Shani Rhys James MBE
Edition of 25 on Hahnemuhle Paper 320mm x 260mm
Combing her Hair Shani Rhys James MBE
Drawing on Stone
'Anfarwolion - The Immortals' Ruth Jen Evans (2021)
Anfarwolion - The Immortals is a four-run lithograph by the artist Ruth Jen Evans. Based in Talybont, up the road from Aberystwyth, Ruth is a multimedia artist, whose works often incorporate monoprint, linocut, screenprinting, drawing and collage. She also makes work in ceramics, and a recent exhibition at MOMA Wales in Machynlleth also included film and animation as well.
Making this print, provided Ruth with the opportunity to create her own personal mythology, which derives in part from some of the recent linocuts and ceramics that she has been making. Having been brought up in a close-knit rural community, from early childhood, Ruth has been immersed in a strong tradition of story telling, both factual and imaginery. As an artist, she sees the images she creates as a continuation of this but through a visual medium rather than through the spoken word. She is fascinated by folk and fairy tales and often references Welsh folklore and stories in her work.
Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Croft, Anfarwolion - The Immortals has been drawn with lithographic crayon and tusche wash and printed in four runs from plates and stone in a limited split edition of 30 impressions, as 15 on Hahnemuhle and 15 on Rives Cream Paper.
'Allt Goch Y Mynydd' Pete Monaghan (2022)
This year's print for Aberystwyth Printmakers Collector's Club is Allt Goch Y Mynydd, a three run lithograph by Pete Monaghan. Based in Talybont, Aberystwyth, Monaghan is a well-established artist, known for his paintings of rural landscape with farm buildings, out-houses and delapidated barns roofed with corrugated iron. Typically, Monaghan incorporates collage, corrugated card and other material in his work, so for this lithograph, these elements have been introduced through techniques of transfer lithography - inking textured surfaces and pressing these down on to the surface of the stones and plates during drawing.
Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Croft, Allt Goch Y Mynydd has been drawn with lithographic crayon and tusche wash and printed in three runs from plates and stone in a limited split edition of 30 impressions, as 15 on Hahnemuhle and 15 on Rives Grey paper.