New Year, New Exhibitions and more

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January and February's line up at PM Gallery

Adult Education

Our popular Adult Education programme, led by practising artist, Idun Eustace, will continue over the spring term. Idun has great experience of delivering fine art classes to people with a range of abilities and her unique, open style of teaching has consistently inspired confidence in our students. The below courses take place in PM's Studio.

Life Drawing for all levels

This course runs 10 - 12 noon once a week for 11 weeks from Monday 12 January

£117.90 / £78.30 (conc)

Life Drawing Intermediate / Advanced

This course runs 1 - 3.30pm once a week for 11 weeks from Monday 12 January

£146.78 / £97.28 (conc)

Life Drawing for all levels

This course runs 10 - 12 noon once a week for 11 weeks from Tuesday 13 January

£117.90 / £78.30 (conc)

The below courses are set in the recently restored Pitzhanger Lodge. Covering still life and landscape in a variety of media and techniques, these courses take inspiration from the Manor-House and surrounding Walpole Park. Students will be advised which materials to purchase.

Drawing & Painting for all levels

This course runs 1 - 3pm once a week for 11 weeks from Tuesday 13 January

£88 / £48.40 (conc)

Oil Painting for all levels

This course runs 10 - 12 noon once a week for 11 weeks from Wednesday 14 January

£88 / £48.40 (conc)

Oil Painting for all levels

This course runs 1 - 3.30pm once a week for 11 weeks from Wednesday 14 January

£110 / £60.50 (conc)

These courses are run in partnership with Ealing Adult Learning. To enrol, please call Adult Learning on 020 8825 5577.

 

HOWARD HODGKIN: Prints

17 January  – 28th February 2009

 The printmaking career of one of Britain’s most internationally respected artists will be documented in an exhibition at PM Gallery, west London, opening in January 2009.

Howard Hodgkin: Prints brings together forty-three prints spanning Hodgkin’s entire print career to date. The exhibition runs from 17 January- 28 February 2009 at PM Gallery, the extension to architect Sir John Soane’s home, Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing, west London.

                           

Away, 2000-02                                                     Here we are in Croydon, 1979                            Rain, 2000-02

Howard Hodgkin: Prints is the first large-scale exhibition appraisal of Howard Hodgkin’s print career. Hodgkin is best known as a painter, but over the past forty years he has explored the possibilities of printmaking, producing a substantial body of work as accomplished as his oils. He has produced around 130 editions of beautifully crafted prints, large and small, using a variety of media and techniques.

The etchings and lithographs that dominate Hodgkin’s prints of the last twenty-five years are, like most prints, produced as a series of layers. But, as well as employing the more formal processes of printmaking, Hodgkin has broken many of the rules of the craft, and the results are among the most stunning effects of colour and surface in contemporary printmaking.

Hodgkin’s first experiments with printmaking were as a student, when he recognised the potential of prints to create texture and layered imagery. He was also fascinated by the art historical tradition of printmaking; some of his favourite artists – Vuillard, Bonnard and Matisse – were influenced by the graphic art of Toulouse Lautrec and Jules Cheret.

 His first professional print, Enter Laughing, was produced in 1964, when he was one of twenty-five young artists to make their first screenprints with master printer, Chris Prater, of Kelpra Studio, the results published together as an ICA portfolio. Hodgkin introduced hand colouring in 1977, a development which allowed him to bring the spontaneity and directness of his paintings into his graphic work.

Howard Hodgkin: Prints is organised and toured by Barbican Art Gallery, London.

January 16, 2009