Christmas 2023

 

Merry Christmas for tomorrow. I hope you enjoy every minute of your day, no matter how you celebrate it (or not) and that the last few days of 2023 will pass equally agreeably. 

My own year was capped off by a visit to London in September/October that was life-changing in unforeseen, seemingly endless ways. Fuelled by my trip, I’m now working with renewed vigour and a more assured sense of direction towards a solo show at Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, scheduled for the latter part of next year. I can’t wait to see where the work takes me and what ever else the new year will bring.

My thanks and gratitude to those who have offered their friendship, support and encouragement throughout the past momentous year. I’m very lucky to have you in my life, and it’s a privilege to be a part of yours. 

Image on e-card: Deborah Klein, The Heavens Declare 2, 2022, linocut, 20 x 15 cm. For background information on this print and its companion work, The Heavens Declare 1, click HERE.

Clunes Booktown 2023

Pictured above and below: a handful of photos snapped at yesterday afternoon’s panel discussion Not Just a Pretty Picture in the Esmond Gallery at Clunes Booktown. 

A big thank you to everyone involved in the organisation of Clunes Booktown Festival 2023, especially Jon Hawkes and Sue Beal, who invited me to join the dream team of panelists, Simon Perry and Philip Faulks, to our wonderful Chair, Michele Ely, and to Shelley Hinton, who hung the accompanying exhibition, A picture’s worth a thousand words.

Thanks also to everyone who came to our talk. It was lovely seeing so many of you there. We couldn’t have wished for a more terrific audience. I hope you had as much fun as we did. 

Photos 1 & 2, L-R: Chair Michele Ely, panelists Simon Perry, myself and Philip Faulks; 

Photo 3: Discussing my painting ‘Apiary’, 2022;

Photo 4, L-R: Linocuts by DK and drawings by Philip Faulks;

Photo 5, L-R: My linocuts The Heavens Declare 1 & 2, 2022 and Pirate Jenny and Mack the Knife and Pirate Jenny in a Kimono, both 1987.

Last weekend of ‘The Printmaker’s Garden of Imagination’

 

A substantial part of the past week has been spent numbering, titling and signing freshly minted copies of The Heavens Declare (1) and (2) in readiness for the final days of the Goldfields Printmakers group exhibition, The Printmaker’s Garden of Imagination. 

Sold copies of the linocuts can be collected from the gallery at the end of the last day of the show, Sunday 25 September, or, unless other arrangements have been made, they will be posted to their new owners early next week.

The response to these prints, the first of a planned suite, has been hugely gratifying and encouraging. They will also form part of a future artist book. I’ve even received an advance order for it from a rare book collector. Fortunately he is in no rush!

The Printmaker’s Garden of Imagination

Newstead Arts Hub
8A Tivey Street, Newstead VIC 3642
Opening Hours: Sat and Sun 10am - 4pm

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, The Printmakers’ Garden of Imagination can also be viewed at IMPACT 12, the International Printmaking Symposium in Bristol, UK. 

Photos 1-2 above: The Heavens Declare (1) and The Heavens Declare (2), each 2022, linocut, chine-collé, 20 x 15 cm (image), 42 x 29 cm (paper), ed: 30.

Continuing this weekend: The Printmakers’ Garden of Imagination

 

Owing to initial time constraints, I only printed a couple of each of my two linocuts in the current Goldfields Printmakers exhibition, The Printmaker’s Garden of Imagination at Newstead Arts Hub, never dreaming there would be any interest in them. Much gratitude to those who have already acquired one or both, or have placed orders.

Part of the past week was spent printing further works from the limited editions of 30. Fortunately my trusty Poppy Press didn’t let me down, as Alice (pictured above) will attest. 

Unless other arrangements have been made, the works will be available for collection on Sunday 25 September, the last day of the exhibition. 

Newstead Arts Hub,

8A Tivey Street, Newstead VIC 3642
The show is open every weekend until 25 September.
Opening Hours: Sat and Sun 10am - 4pm

The Printmaker’s Garden of Imagination will also be shown at IMPACT 12, the International Printmaking Conference in Bristol, UK.

Pictured above: The Heavens Declare (1) and (2), 2022, linocut, chine-collé, each 20 x 15 cm (image), 42 x 29 cm (paper), ed: 30. (Installation view at Newstead Arts Hub).