My small studio is not an easy place to socially distance. So this year I shall not be opening up.
However, if you like the look of my work, see more at:
I’m selling a lot of my prints at half price for the benefit of
Contact me @ johnmichaelmcg@hotmail.com or text me @ 07522 417430
You’ll be able to collect your print from the studio door in Northborough
Prints based on the trestles that supported a Victorian railway bridge.
See my short film about the trestles.
Screenprint
Drypoint and Carborundum print
In 20/21 I’ve been making a series of films about Lascaux Tusches. These are the artists’ media I use to make my screen prints. They are a bit hard to explain in words, so here’s an introduction to them.
John is one of the few artists in the Peterborough area who works exclusively in printmaking. A lot of the work s are made using screen printing but recently the acquisition of a small etching press has led to works made in Lino, card and drypoint.
His Prints are designed and produced in his own print studio in Northborough. One print can take up to two months to produce, as he goes through an extensive process of proofing before starting to print an edition. Editions are rarely more than 25 and are printed with acrylic based inks on high quality mould-made papers. They are available framed or unframed.
Work in progressJohn has been making original prints for over 50 years. His printmaking practice developed radically in 1979/80 when he began a series based on images of the Northampton Arm of the Grand Union Canal. Prints are now produced in small editions in his own studio in Northborough.
He is mainly known for his screenprints of the British Industrial heritage: Dockside warehouses (now in the Museum of London’s collection), Signal Boxes and a recent Paper Mill Suite. He still continues to experiment with print techniques and subject matter, particularly through a 25 year long “cubist” series.
John taught Art in Northampton, Peterborough and Oundle. He has recently exhibited in Stamford, Northampton and has recently had large scale exhibition of his prints in Alfred East Gallery, Kettering.
The Garage Gallery
Where can see the work now?
You can see his work at:
Black Cab Studio, Deeping St. James.
John’s 2016 video on Print Techniques https://youtu.be/jbRJFH7xfAY
Print Wins John Art Award
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/our-region/peterborough/print-wins-john-art-award-1-7334793
See John McGowan Printmaker on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/JohnMcGowanPrintmaker/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
*Original Prints – An original print is a work of art created by hand and printed by hand, by the artist, from a plate, block, stone, or stencil that has been hand created by the artist for the sole purpose of producing the desired image. The plates or stencils it is printed from bear no resemblance to the finished work of art, which means it is not a copy or a reproduction of anything. Each print produced is technically a unique work although produced as a signed and numbered multiple. The original print is usually produced as a limited number of impressions, another word for print. The term for this group of prints is the edition. Although there are many of the same image in an edition, each print is an individual part of the whole, the whole being the edition. An original print is actually one piece of a multiple original work of art. (Bill Wheeler)
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Contact name
John McGowan
Exhibition address
Not exhibiting in 2021
Open days
Demonstrations available
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Tuition offered
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Garden open for visitors
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Refreshments served
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Commissions accepted
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A working Printmaker’s Studio.
Exhibitions.
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