Members of Greenwich Printmakers celebrate their 30 Anniversary with a dinner at Cafe Rouge.
Joining us were two of our former, founder members, Liz Morris and Don Harris and also Joan Pickard, our landlady from our first gallery in Turnpin lane in 1979, before we moved
six years later to our present gallery at 1a Greenwich Market.

Aimee Birnbaum was born in New York City and now lives and works in London. In the U.S. she trained at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. After moving to London she studied etching and anatomy at the Sir John Cass School of Art and the Camden Institute. She regularly exhibits her watercolours at many different venues including the Royal Institute of Watercolours and at the Singer and Friedlander Sunday Times Competition Exhibition at the Mall Galleries.

Aimee danced classical ballet for 25 years which gives her the inspiration for a lot of her etchings and paintings. There isn't anything more exciting for her than leaping about to music. She tries to re-live that movement with images in ink and paint.

Awards and Prizes:

2007 Election to Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours
2007 The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers The June Stokes-Robers Bursary in Painting in Water Colours, Presented at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Exhibition
2001 National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Kew Studio Prize
2000 Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery St. Cuthbert’s Mill Award, 2nd prize, C21 Exhibition
1995 Ben Uri Gallery Printmaking Prize Sheridan Russell Gallery , London W1

And now you can see her work as a featured artist in the Greenwich Printmakers Gallery until the 1st of February.

Spring Cleaning the gallery

It's a New Year, so we've decided to give the gallery a new look - or at least a new coat of paint. It's taken three days of hard work by some brave volunteers, but it's now looking much lighter and brighter. For those that are interested we chose Farrow and Ball "Off White". We felt it was important to replace the original slate grey with a much lighter, fresher colour, as the gallery is quite small and the colour made the space seem even smaller.

Anyway, please come in and see the improvement for yourselves.

Greenwich Printmakers Gallery starts 2009 with the featured artist exhibition of Mychael Barratt.

Mychael was born in Toronto, Canada but thinks of himself as a Londoner since arriving for what was meant to be a two week stay twenty years ago. He has that immigrant’s zeal for his adopted home and includes local settings that have a personal resonance in much of his work. He is a narrative artist and anecdotal incidents from his day-to-day life which he gathers like a magpie are at the heart of his paintings and prints.

Mychael was recently commissioned to write a book on intaglio printmaking for the publishers A & C Black and decided to try out
all of the techniques that he wrote about. His print O for a muse of fire based on the work of William Shakespeare is the culmination of those experiments as he has created a 26 plate etching which includes every intaglio technique from drypoint and engraving to mezzotint and aquatint.

You can see his prints at the gallery from the 6th to the 18th of January.