28 November 2024 – 2 February 2025

Celebrating the natural world in many different aspects, our annual print exhibition links with the themes of Flower Fairies in discovering the flora and fauna of our natural landscape.

The exhibition features the work of 8 artists from around the UK:

• Jo Barry – etchings of the trees and landscape of the New Forest
• Ian Brooks – etchings of the wild and barren landscapes of the Arctic
• Rachel Gracey – lithographs of riverscape and parks, mostly in Oxfordshire
• Clare Halifax – screenprints of flowers
• Joshua Miles – linocuts of Scottish seascapes and landscapes
• Babs Pease – linocuts of birds and fish
• Emma Reynolds – screenprints of open skies
• Julia Timmins - wood engravings of plants, fossils and shells

Between them, they represent a huge variety of approaches and styles, demonstrating how responses to the world we see can be depicted in so many different ways. From detailed wood engraving by Julia Timmons of barnacles and shells, to realistic watery linocuts by Joshua Miles, the chill-inducing empty landscape etchings of Ian Brooks, eye-popping colourful prints of birds and fish by Babs Peas, evocative and impressionistic semi-abstract riverscapes by Rachel Gracey – the variety of prints on show is enthralling.

With over 100 works on show, there is bound to be something to suit everyone.