The Whittox Gallery at RISE, are delighted to announce that their Christmas show this year will be SOMERSET PRINTMAKERS showcasing the latest work from this renowned collective of artists.

The Somerset Printmakers group was created in 1998 by a group of seventeen professional artists living and working in Somerset, brought together by their dedication to creativity and their shared passion for the craft of printmaking, and all its diverse techniques. Their aim, then as it is now, is to promote their work as a collective and to showcase the best of printmaking in Somerset.

The exhibition will include work by members, Julia Manning RE, Cath Bloomfield, Gail Mason, Bron Bradshaw, Jenny Graham, Pennie Elfick, Jane Mowat, Sue Lowe, Sebastian Chance, Tony Martin, Judy Willoughby and Stéphanie Max-Dubos.

Each artist has their unique style and printmaking method including etching, woodcuts, relief prints, linocuts, collagraph, screen-printing  & mono-printing. The artists will be showing limited edition and one off unique prints.

As a group, they have exhibited at Spike Island in Bristol, the Contemporary Print Show at the Barbican Centre London, the International Print Fairs in Bremen and Hamburg Germany, the Fresh Art Fair in London and numerous Galleries throughout the west country.