The Landing: ImPRESSions by Strictly Printmakers

Strictly Printmakers’ new exhibition ‘ImPRESSions’ showcases a skilful and creative collection of handmade prints.  

They are a group of friends who initially met at Southport College on a number of printmaking courses. Since then they remain enthused about exploring the potential of the glorious realm of the handmade print and continue to produce work on a variety of themes. 

Examples include monoprints, etchings, drypoints, linoprints and screenprints on a selection of substrates or surfaces. Their practice centres on the transferring of a unique image from one surface to another by pressing down onto paper, textile or clay – sometimes, by hand, sometimes using a press. A handmade print can be part of a limited repeated edition or a one-off piece of artwork. Also on display in the exhibition are some of the sources of inspiration used by the artists.