welcoming the beautiful blossoms of Spring. Katherine Jones, Blossom, 2020, collagraph and block print, 72 x74cm Ed. 25 A patch of earth holds the promise of growth and renewal. Bound between the space of an urban #allotment and her studio, artist Katherine Jones has emerged with a new collection of images that touch on our primordial instincts. We are please to be able to offer OWNART purchasing with 0% interest over 10 installments through our online printshop #spring #blossom #katherinejones #printmaking #collectprint @ownart #IFPDA #rableygallery #rableyprintshop

COURSE FULL Do contact us if you would like to be on the reserve list or hear about other courses and events Thank you for all your enthusiasm 😍 New COURSE @rableydrawingcentre Mezzotint Moths with Sarah Gillespie 16-18 July 2021 - real people! real ink! real moths! Join us! We are now taking bookings for this course. DM me for more information - ・・・ Intermediate Level (some intaglio printmaking experience necessary)   Tutor: Sarah Gillespie Places: 9 £450.00   To register your interest email rableyprintroom@gmail.com More info 🔼link in bio - EDUCATION SECTION The mezzotint process is a 17th Century intaglio method of printmaking achieving an exquisite soft tonal range by abrading the surface of a copper plate with a toothed rocker and burnishing areas of light by smoothing the surface where the ink will not be held. Transformed by the hand inking of the plate with sticky ink and the transference by the etching press onto the paper. Rabley Gallery is at the heart of farmland, brimmed by woods, fields, river and downland in and area of outstanding natural beauty (ANOB) on the Marlborough Downs. It is habitiat to over 300 species of moths– a ‘tip of the iceberg’ list that has spurred my interest, leading to us inviting Sarah Gillespie to present these stunning Wessex moth prints whose names read like incidental poetry ‘Lime-speck Pug, White Plume, Light Emerald, Black Arches, Small Phoenix, Yellow-tail, Common Quaker’ #rableydrawingcentre #artcourse #mezzotint #printmaking #rableygallery #sarahgillespie ##rableyprintroom

Easter Rabbit! In Sanskrit Māyā means "illusion or magic".This multiple block woodcut combines Eileen Cooper’s signature stylised figure of Maya with the fluid drawing of the rabbit and layering of marks within the striking pet on her lap. This is a woodcut print that rewards revisiting, printed on a beautiful Japanese paper with the delicate woodgrain enhancing the surface qualities. Eileen Cooper Maya, 2019 Woodcut on Japanese paper Edition 25 96 x 66cm We are please to be able to offer OWNART purchasing with 0% interest over 10 installments through our online printshop. Cooper has work is held in many public and private collections including as the Arts Council Collection; The British Museum; The Royal Collection; Victoria & Albert Museum; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Kunsthalle, Nuremberg; Walpole Library, Yale University. In 2000 Cooper was elected a Royal Academician. From 2010-17 Cooper served as Keeper of the Royal Academy, thereby becoming the first woman to be elected to this role since the RA began in 1768. #EileenCooper #Easterbunny #collectprint #woodcut #handmade #contemporaryprint #rableygallery #rableyprintshop #royalacademy #royalacademician #IFPDA #OwnArt

Good Friday - Craigie Aitchison RA Can you see the ghostly form of a dog shimmering under the surface of this glorious pink? Craigie Aitchison RA – Pink Crucifixion Medium: Etching Size: 76.2 x 62.5 cms Edition of 50 Published 2004 Rabley Gallery will be opening it’s doors from 15 April - DM me to make a date to visit! We are please to announce that OWNART @own.art (buying in 10interest free instalments) is now available on prints in our online shop. ##goodfriday #crucifixion #collectprints #ownart #IFPDA #easter #beddlingtonterrier #rableyprintshop #rableygallery #scottishcolourists #craigieaitchison

Ceramicist Emily Myers in her studio yesterday. It was so exciting to select and collect beautiful vessels for her exhibition ‘Rising River, Waning Moon’ with Japanese printmaker Nana Shiomi. We will open the gallery doors on 15 April. DM me to register you interest in Emily’s work. #contemporaryceramics #rableygallery #emilymyers #emilymyersceramics

‘Meryl Ainslie, Aqua Alta’ waiting for the flood. 2016, silver and gold, 7cm @merylainslie #silver #vessel #Waterrising #climatechange #venice #veniceunderwater #contemporarysilver #makingideas #contemporarysculpture #rableygallery #rableycabinet #contemporaryjewellery

I am so delighted to see the stunning studio barn designed by architect Tom Randall-Page profiled in the Observer today. There is a very special empathy between this building, his father Peter Randall-Page and the surrounding landscape and materials. Congratulations @mr._randall_page - a triumph of a building that is quietly spoken and deserves applause! #rowanmoore #theobserver #outtoday #architecture #sculpture #greatbuildings

Rabley Gallery is delighted to welcome Sarah Gillespie to it’s fold with meticulously detailed studies of moths, highlighting the diverse and mysterious beauty of these night creatures. From her mezzotint prints the shimmering moths emerge humming from the darkness. Read more in our new feature 🔼link in bio The Wessex Moth Collection by Sarah Gillespie available from #rableyprintshop #rableygallery ‘Hebrew Character” Mezzotint in an edition of 20 16” x 16” /400mm x 400mm (Paper size 18 ½” x 18 ½” / 470mm x470mm) Printed on Arches Moulin du Gue paper Date: 2019 #sarahgillespie #mezzotint #ifpda #ownart #collectprints #moths #biodiversity #wiltshire #wessex #homefarmminal #wildlife

We are delighted that the University of Warwick Art Collection has recently acquired Katherine Jones ‘Vanishing Land’ Katherine Jones The Vanishing Land 2010 Collagraph and block print 67 x 70.5 cms (Available from the Rabley Print Shop) The Vanishing Land, 2010 - a ghost-like house shape appears to float above the sea. It is one of a suite of four prints entitled 'Inside is Dry Land' made in response to reports of the effects of coastal erosion on coastlines bordering places such as Skipsea North Yorkshire where houses have collapsed along with the crumbling cliffs that supported them. As the sea steadily and continuously overtakes the land it throws up not only practical questions but also those of displacement and the fragility of belonging when the land which once underpinned the place an individual identifies as ‘home’ has disappeared. These works began to trace a broad interest in the relationship between man and the changing environment which has continued to inform the artist's work to date - the most recent of these iterations involving flora and fauna adapting to a warming world. #warwickuniversity #katherinejones #printmaking #artcollection #collectprints #rableygallery #ifpda #ownart #yorkshire #coastlines #rableyprintshop

Rebecca Salter, Weft 1 is made in a very small edition of 10. Salter hand prints multiple carved wood blocks onto both sides of the fine, handmade Japanese paper to create a work of unique depth of field in these abstract qualities. This handmade and printed paper is then carefully adhered to a more robust and stable western archival paper, loosing none of its unique surface qualities. Just two of this very special edition remain available. Rebecca Salter PRA Weft 1, 2015 Japanese woodcut 28 x 46cm Edition 10 £775 Japanese woodcut is a traditional water based method of printmaking using pigment and rice paste, hand burnished in layers from dampened woodblock. Salter has written publication about this unique craft. #rebeccasalter #abstractart #royalacademyofarts #japanesewoodblockprints #japaneseprints #rableygallery #collectprints #ifpda #ownart