About Artist
Selected Artworks
News
Exhibitions

About Artist

Neil Bousfield is a British artist working in relief printmaking and contemporary wood engraving. His recent work explores the landscape narrative of the North Norfolk coast and the changing geography of time and place. He sketches on location, walks, researches and imagines to make his layered prints. The balance of gentle hues and the play of line and texture give Bousfield’s work a timeless quality.

Bousfield’s work is held in numerous collections including – The National Art Library; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Pallant House Gallery; Chichester University; Ohio State University Libraries, USA.

Selected Artworks

News

New Publication Launching at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2023


COASTAL DEFENCE is a new series of engravings exploring coastal erosion and climate change in a local and global context. The series looks at the idea of connectedness, place, and loss. It considers how the sea connects coastal places around the world and draws parallels between a quiet, Norfolk coast and all coastal regions and cities around the world set to be impacted by sea-level rise.

Exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS

2023
Leaning into the Light, Rachel Bebb Contemporary, Stockbridge
London Original Print Fair, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Somerset House
The World in the Palm of Your Hand, Heilongjiang Museum of Printmaking, China
Scene through Wood: A Century of Wood Engraving, St Barbe, Lymington
Society of Wood Engravers 85th (touring), Bankside Gallery, London | Museum in the Park, Stroud

2022
Scene through Wood: A Century of Wood Engraving, Heath Robinson Museum | Sept-Dec 2022
Printmakers Exhibition, St Barbe, Lymington | 11 June–16 July 2022
Created Territories: Relief Engravings 2012-2022 (solo show), Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk | May 2022
Northern Lights: New Light, A 10-year retrospective, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester | 26 Mar-17 Apr 2022
Scene through Wood: A Century of Wood Engraving, Dorset Museum, Dorchester | 9 Feb–2 May 2022
Society of Wood Engravers 84th (touring 2022), Bankside Gallery, London | 1-20 Feb 2022
RBSA Print Prize Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham | 18 Jan–26 Feb 2022

2021
Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking, Pallant House Gallery
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Royal Arsenal
Cutting it Fine: The Art of the British Wood Engraver, Salisbury Museum
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
London Original Print Fair represented by Rabley Gallery and Bankside Gallery
CONNECTIONS, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, with St Judes
RE Original Prints, Bankside Gallery, London
Society of Wood Engravers 83rd Annual (touring), Qube, Oswestry
IMPRESSIONS: British Wood Engraving Today Muban Educational Trust
Printmakers, Bircham Gallery, Holt

2020
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Royal Arsenal
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
New Light Prize 2020-2021 (touring), Scarborough Museum, The Biscuit Factory, Bankside Gallery
London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London – RE and Rabley Gallery
RE Original Prints, Bankside Gallery, London
Scene through Wood: A Century of Wood Engraving, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Drawn to Nature: Gilbert White and the Artists, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
SWE Centenary-82nd Annual (touring), Bankside Gallery, London
Mapping the Broads, Community and Creativity, East Gallery, Norwich
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London – Rabley Gallery

2019
Great Print Exhibition Rheged Centre Gallery, Penrith, Cumbria
The Masters: Relief, Bankside Gallery, London
Winter Print Show, North House Gallery, Manningtree
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2019, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London
Westmorland Landscape Prize Exhibition, Rheged Centre Gallery, Penrith, Cumbria
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
RE Original Prints, Bankside Gallery, London
London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London – Rabley Gallery
HIT 19, Haugesund Billedgalleri, Haugesund, Norway
The Path, North House Gallery, Manningtree
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London – Rabley Gallery

2018
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2018, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London
New Light, Tullie House Art Gallery, Carlisle
81st Annual Exhibition, The Society of Wood Engravers 2018-2019 (touring)
Immerse, Printroom Studio, Suffolk
1st Biennial Sino-British Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yantai Art Museum, Yantai, Shandong Province, China
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
Flourish Award, West Yorkshire Print Workshop
The Original Print Show, Zillah Bell Gallery, North Yorkshire
Royal Academy of Arts 250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
RBSA Print Prize 2018, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
The Art of Wood Engraving, Printroom Studio, Suffolk
Society of Wood Engravers 80th Annual Exhibition, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
RE Original Prints 2018, Bankside Gallery, London
New Light, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield
London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London – Rabley Gallery
COAST, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough, UK
Printmakers, Bircham Gallery, Norfolk

2017
Ink Miami, IFPDA, Rabley Contemporary, Miami, USA
New Light, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
21st National Open Art, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
80th Annual Exhibition, The Society of Wood Engravers 2017-2018 (touring)
Ballot, Nunn’s Yard, Norwich
RWA 165th Annual, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
The Original Print Show, Prints from the RA, Zillah Bell Gallery, North Yorkshire
Sydney Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
SKETCH 2017, Rabley Drawing Centre, Black Swan Arts, Plymouth College of Art, Peter Scott Gallery, UK
RE Original Prints 2017, Bankside Gallery, London
London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London
PrintFest, Coronation Hall, Ulverston, Cumbria
Royal Society of British Artists 300th, Mall Galleries, London

2016
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
The Art of the Print, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN, USA
79th Annual Exhibition, The Society of Wood Engravers 2016-2017 (touring)
International Printmaking Alliance, China Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
Flourish, West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Huddersfield
NEO:Printprize, Bolton
New Light, Panter & Hall, London
RE Original Prints 2016, Bankside Gallery, London
London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
New Light, The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate

2015
The Masters: Relief Prints, Bankside Gallery, London
24th Annual Salon, Trélazé, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
19th National Open Art, Royal College of Art
New Light, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
78th Annual Exhibition, The Society of Wood Engravers 2015-2016 (touring)
Flourish, West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Huddersfield
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
RE Original Prints 2015, Bankside Gallery, London
London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts
Neil Bousfield Prints: A Narrative of Place, Tinsmiths, Hereford solo show
Neil Bousfield: Drawing In Practice A Portfolio of Objects, University of the West of England (solo show)
Hidden in Plain Sight, Norwich University of the Arts Gallery

2014
77th Annual Exhibition, The Society of Wood Engravers 2014-2015 (touring)
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London regional prizewinner
Neil Bousfield: Engravings, North House Gallery solo show and first retrospective
18th National Open Art, Somerset House, London and Minerva Theatre
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2014, London
RE Original Prints 2014, Bankside Gallery, London
Contemporary British Glassmakers & Printmakers, Twenty-Twenty Gallery

2013
76th Annual Exhibition, The Society of Wood Engravers 2013-2014 (touring)
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2013, London

2012
8th British International Mini Print Exhibition, Printmakers Council 2012-2014 (touring)
75th Annual Exhibition The Society of Wood Engravers 2012-2013 (touring)
The Best Tools, The Best Methods, The Best Aim: The Society of Wood Engravers 1920-2012, Manchester Metropolitan University

2011
The Art of the Woodcut Novel, AVA Gallery and Art Center, USA (invited artist)
The Art of the Woodcut Novel, Lamson Library, Plymouth State University, USA (invited artist)
74th Annual Exhibition, The Society of Wood Engravers 2011-2012 (touring)
BITE 2011 Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London (invited artist)
Bewick’s Legacy: 6 Contemporary Wood Engravers, Washington Printmakers Gallery, USA (invited artist)

2010
73rd Annual Exhibition, The Society of Wood Engravers 2010-2011 (touring)
Bitten and Pressed, Contemporary Artists’ Prints, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
To Have and To Hold 2, Chapel Row Gallery, Bath (invited artist) Fine Press Books Association

2009
72nd Annual Exhibition, The Society of Wood Engravers 2009-2010 (touring)
IMPRESS 09, National printmaking festival, Stroud, Gloucestershire
PRE-IMPRESS SHOW, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum

2008
71st Annual Exhibition, The Society of Wood Engravers 2008-2009 (touring)
7th British International Mini Print Exhibition, Printmakers Council 2008-2010 (touring)

2007
70th Annual Exhibition, The Society of Wood Engravers 2007-2008 (touring)
Royal West of England Academy Open, RWA, Bristol

2006
69th Annual Exhibition, The Society of Wood Engravers 2006-2007 (touring)
The Subscription Rooms, Stroud, exhibition of hand engraved book

AWARDS

2022 ‘GMC Trust Award’ Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, RBSA Print Prize.
2018 RBSA Print Prize – ‘Highly Commended’, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
2018 The Rachel Reckitt Prize (first prize), The Golsoncott Foundation
2017 New Light Printmakers Prize, New Light Art & Zillah Bell Gallery
2015 Flourish Print Award – ‘Highly Commended’ for excellence in printmaking
2014 Regional Prize Winner, ING Discerning Eye
2013 The Rachel Reckitt Prize, The Golsoncott Foundation
2012 Society of Wood Engravers 75th Anniversary Prize
2011 SWE Award for outstanding engraving, BITE Artists Making Prints
2007 Rebecca Smith Award, for artists book “The Cycle”
2007 The Rawlinson Bequest

COLLECTIONS

2023 ‘New Jersey Turnpike‘ (Folio22), Golder-Thompson Gift, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2022 ‘Bewick’s Place’ and ‘Winter Sea‘, Heilongjiang Museum of Printmaking
2021 ‘Wilfred Owen Portfolio of engravings‘, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2021 ‘Gilbert’s Tears’ (diptych), Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2017 ‘The Walcott Prints’ set of 4 diptych engravings, Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, China
2017 ‘Walcott Prints’ (diptych) set, The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Shi, China
2016 ‘Promenade’ PCC Collection, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), V&A, London
2015 ‘The Cycle’ portfolio, MMU Special Collections, Manchester Metropolitan University
2014 Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) Diploma Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
2011 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

PUBLICATIONS

2021 Martin, S. and Weller, L. 2021, Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking, [exhibition catalogue]. Chichester: Pallant House Gallery
2021 Wolstenholme, K 2021, Open Call with Neil Bousfield. Article: Eastern Daily Press, 25 November 2021
2021 Martin, S. 2021, Drawn to Nature: Gilbert White and the Artists. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2020 Desmet, A. and Brett, S 2020, Scene Through Wood: A Century of Modern Wood Engraving, [exhibition catalogue]. Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford
2020 The Making of Art with a Sense of Place. Article: KL Magazine, September 2020
2018 Wilfred Owen Selected Poems, engravings completed by Neil Bousfield, The Folio Society, London, Autumn 2018
2018 Printmakers in the Dalziel Archive. Article: Printmaking Today Vol. 27 No. 1 Spring 2018
2019 Printing Ideas, Octagon Press
2015 Time and Tide Profile: Printmaking Today Vol.24 No.1 Spring
2011 Choice Cuts Article: Printmaking Today Vol.20 No.4 Winter
2007 Wood Engraving in Britain Today Article: Washington Print Club Quarterly Vol.43 No.2