Oxford Printmakers
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Oxford Printmakers is an open access fine art printmaking
workshop in Oxford
, England
, located at the end of Tyndale Road off the Cowley Road near The Plain
. It was set up to help and enable artists in the Oxford area. Providing them with a platform and a place where they can make their own artwork and prints.
It offers facilities for intaglio
, litho, silkscreen and relief printmaking. It is a non-profit making organisation that regularly holds exhibitions and welcomes people from the local community to join in. It has a community outreach programme and runs courses each year in several printmaking processes.
A selection of artist’s work who make prints there:
Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...
workshop in Oxford
Oxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, located at the end of Tyndale Road off the Cowley Road near The Plain
The Plain, Oxford
The Plain is an important junction, now a roundabout constructed in 1950, just east of Magdalen Bridge in Oxford, England. To the east and southeast are St Clement's, Cowley Road and Iffley Road. Magdalen College School is to the south...
. It was set up to help and enable artists in the Oxford area. Providing them with a platform and a place where they can make their own artwork and prints.
It offers facilities for intaglio
Intaglio (printmaking)
Intaglio is a family of printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface, known as the matrix or plate, and the incised line or area holds the ink. Normally, copper or zinc plates are used as a surface, and the incisions are created by etching, engraving, drypoint, aquatint or...
, litho, silkscreen and relief printmaking. It is a non-profit making organisation that regularly holds exhibitions and welcomes people from the local community to join in. It has a community outreach programme and runs courses each year in several printmaking processes.
External links
- Oxford Printmakers
- Exhibition at the Christ Church Picture GalleryChrist Church Picture GalleryChrist Church Picture Gallery is an art museum at Christ Church, one of the colleges of Oxford University in England. The gallery holds an important collection of about 300 Old Master paintings and nearly 2,000 drawings. It is one of the most important private collections in the United Kingdom...
A selection of artist’s work who make prints there: