PRINTMAKING GALLERY

Stock held at:-

Moss Prints, Cheltenham - www.mo22gallery.co.uk

Sky Blue Framing, Bristol - www.skybluegallery.co.uk

Montpellier Gallery, Stratford on Avon- www.montpelliergallery.com

Oxenham Art, Leominster - www.oxenhamart.co.uk

Sue Brown is an artist who uses printmaking to tell stories. She is inspired by process as much as nature. Her work springs from the pages of her sketchbooks and she develops carefully researched themes using collagraphs and etchings. Sue uses her work to explore the relationships we have with our feathered garden visitors; she is fascinated by all things ornithological. From the smallest garden bird to characterful corvids, Sue describes them with card, glue and ink. Her prints on paper are full of expression and often humour.

The following images are made using traditional etching techniques using ferric chloride biting into copper. Each image starts with a soft wax which takes up the texture of leaves and flowers. I then draw the birds using hard wax.

All editions are limited to 30.

NEW WORK: Hybrid prints using a combination of lino and collagraph.

Allotment Crow

Hybrid print: 22cm x 37cm

Allotment Wren

Hybrid print: 40cm x 23cm

Megan's Greenhouse

Hybrid print: 33cm x 23cm

Crow

Etching: 10cmx 10cm

Frost Wren

Etching: 10cmx 10cm

Autumn Crow

Etching: 40cm x 15cm

Frost Crow

Etching: 15cm x 40cm

Winter Wren

Etching: 11cm x 40cm

All the following images are made using an intaglio printmaking technique called collagraph. Derived from the word ‘to glue’, collagraph at its very basic level is about inking up a collage as an intaglio and relief plate and printing it with an etching press.

 There are many ways to make this printing matrix, from sticking and layering different textured papers to a base plate made of mount board using fabrics and acrylic mediums to create different ink holding surfaces. Once the plate is made the surface needs to be sealed with shellac or varnish.

Once created the plate is then inked like an etching by pushing ink into all the textures and polishing the ink off white and light areas. Using damp etching paper the plate is passed through an etching press to pull a print.

There are as many ways to ink a plate as there are to make one.  From straight forward intaglio inking to, blended rubs, viscosity inking, coloured rolls and multi plate colour separation. 

Having it All

24cm x 59cm

Watching

22cm x 62cm

It's a Crow
72cm x 48cm

10cm x 10cm

Covid Corvid

15cm x 17cm

Helpful Bran.

11cm x 16cm

Dig Deeper

42cm x 59cm

Dig Deep
24cm x 15cm

Hover

72cm x 48cm

Swoop

72cm x 48cm

Pigeon Pair
50cm x 32cm

Coo
28cm x 32cm

Threes a charm
40cm x 80cm

Pulled thread
40cm x 50 cm

Blue Tit
10cm x 20cm

Sparrow
10cm x 20cm

Poised
10cm x 20cm

Two more for joy.
30 x 45cm

Two for joy
29 x 42cm

Red Thread
48cm x 53cm

Four for a Boy
68cm x 32cm

Three for a Girl.
32 x 68cm

The Gangs all here.
40 x 80cm

Black bird
40 x 80cm

Outside. 56 x 44cm

Leghorn. 30 x 40cm

Escape. 65 x 80cm

Joey made tea. 22 x 30cm

Dropped a stitch. 46 x 92cm

Magpie with Longhorn Beetle 30 x 40cm

Rook with Moth 40 x 30cm

Crow with Stag Beetle 30 x 40cm

Got it pegged!
74 x 92cm

Dirty Laundry 

74 x 92cm

Hello

42 x 60cm

Light Sussex

60 x 42cm

The Bargain

65 x 80cm

Cage

65 x 80cm

Key

56 x 44cm

Blue Tit

56 x 44cm

Gold Finches

56 x 44cm

Look Left, Look Right.

80 x 65cm                   

King of the Birds

80 x 65cm

                                                                 Another Maran
                                                                         80 x 65cm

Dunstable Swan

74 x 92cm

Thus Spoke the Raven 

80 x 65cm

Bird House

56 x 44cm