News
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86th Annual Exhibition
28th September 2024
Zillah Bell Gallery Thirsk
5th October - 26th October
Zillah Bell Gallery
15 Kirkgate, Thirsk
North Yorkshire, YO7 1PQ
01845 522479
Hours: Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
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New Member
19th September 2024
The Society is pleased to announce the election of new SWE member David Frazer
The featured image is David’s Love Letter (study).
Find out more about David’s art at www.dfrazer.com
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New Member
19th September 2024
The Society is pleased to announce the election of new SWE member Masha Tiplady
The featured image is Masha’s Hellebores at Abden House
Find out more about Masha's art at https://www.mashaandtheprints.com
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New Member
2nd March 2024
The Society is pleased to announce the election of new SWE member Judith Cole
The featured image is Judith ’s Insomnia
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New Member
2nd March 2024
The Society is pleased to announce the election of new SWE member Julie Orpen
The featured image is Julie’s A Cete of Badgers
Find out more about Julie’s art at julieorpen.weebly.com
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New Member
2nd March 2024
The Society is pleased to announce the election of new SWE member Fay Watson
The featured image is Fay’s Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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SWE Member elected to RE
7th February 2024
Congratulations to David Robertson who has been elected to Associate Membership of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers.
The featured image is Rob’s The Devil’s Kitchen
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SWE Beechwood Mug
14th February 2024
This fine bone china mug with design based on an engraving by Sue Scullard is now on sale in the on-line Shop, along with the Catalogue for the 86th Annual Exhibition. Look under the new section “SWE Merchandise”
New Book
30th January 2024
A new how-to-do-it book by former SWE Chair Chris Daunt on the technique of wood engraving. Based on the author’s many years of experience as a wood engraver and teacher, this book will guide you through the processes of preliminary drawing, engraving, and printing. There is a guide to tools and materials, chapters on sampler blocks, and various subject matter such as landscapes and portraits. The chapter on printing is extensive, emphasizing the importance of this skill, whether you use a press or burnisher. The book will be reviewed by Peter Lawrence in the February issue of Multiples.
Published by The Crowood Press. ISBN: 9780719843099. Price: £12.99. Copies can be ordered from Chris’s website:
www.chrisdaunt.com/products/the-art-and-craft-of-wood-engraving
New Member
17th October 2023
The Society is pleased to announce the election to SWE membership of
Jim Dunbar
The featured image is Into the Dizzy Blue
Find out more about Jim’s art at jimdunbar.co.uk
New Member
17th October 2023
The Society is pleased to announce the election to SWE membership of
Susan Mannion
The featured image is Summer Rain
Find out more about Susan’s art at susanmannion.com/prints
Hilary Paynter MBE
17th June 2023
The Society is delighted to announce that Hilary Paynter has received an honour for services to the Arts in the King’s Birthday Honours List.
The honour recognises Hilary’s exceptional career as a distinguished practitioner of wood engraving and her role in the Society for over forty years. Firstly, in helping to re-convene the SWE, then as Secretary followed by Chair and as Exhibitions Secretary, a post she has held continually since 1984. Through Hilary’s work in this role, the SWE has toured its Annual Exhibition to the furthest reaches of the UK and beyond.
Hilary also played a key role in helping the Wood Engravers’ Network establish in the USA and supporting letters from WEN members will be entering the V&A collection to enable researchers and scholars of Hilary’s work, and of the medium in general, to understand the full extent of her contribution.
The featured image is Hilary’s Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe
New Member
1st August 2023
The Society is pleased to announce the election to SWE membership of
Cathryn Kuhfeld
The featured image is Off to Tea with the Queen for her Platinum Jubilee
Find out more about Cathryn’s art at cathrynkuhfeld.com
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SWE Member elected to RE
16th June 2022
Congratulations to Leonie Bradley who has been elected to Associate Membership of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers.
There are now 18 SWE members who are also members of the RE.
The featured image is Leonie’s Analogue Interference II
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New Member
8th June 2022
Following the Committee meeting on 5th February the Society is pleased to announce the election to SWE membership of
Amanda Taylor
The featured image is Venetian Waters by Amanda Taylor
Find out more about Amanda’s art at amandataylor.weebly.com
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New Member
8th June 2022
Following the Committee meeting on 5th February the Society is pleased to announce the election to SWE membership of
Phil Underwood.
The featured image is Song Thrush by Phil Underwood
Find out more about Phil’s art at www.philunderwood.co.uk
