On what turned out to be another unsucessful attempt to have work accepted for the annual Originals print exhibition at The Mall Galleries, l took the opportunity to take in some high quality print shows.

Firstly, another Birmingham born artist Peter Freeth R.A. who has an exhibition of his work (till Feb22.free) on at the Royal Academy which includes alot of information about his ways of working which are quite complex. l especially liked his early work which incorporated newspaper images from a period when the nature of newspaper ink facilitated this approach.


There are two galleries featuring work of Cyril Power and other linocut artists of the Grosvenor School. The Redfern Gallery on Cork Street (close to The Royal Academy) has a pleasing range of original works such as Sybil Andrews’ ‘Gipsies’ below which are so evocative in their design. The other gallery showing work by this school is Osborne Samuel again in the Mayfair area.

© Sybil Andrews

l finished off by visiting Bankside Gallery to go around the Mini Picture show which has a range of prints from as little as £25 and features artists such as Anita Klein (below)


© Anita Klein