Botanical Linocuts

Edward Bawden’s artistic, intellectual and practical interest in gardens had a significant influence on his work.

Explore these themes for yourself as we focus on Bawden’s foliage and plant imagery in this half-day linocut printmaking workshop and exhibition tour. Discover more about Edward Bawden’s linocut technique and make your own Bawden-inspired print to take home. Learn about the tools, inks and techniques in a workshop with printmaker Alex Booker, and enjoy an exclusive curator’s tour led by James Russell. Your ticket includes a plant to use as your muse (and to take home) courtesy of Pearspring and craft beer provided by Canopy Beer Co.

Alex Booker is a leading print artist, based in the Limehouse Arts Foundation, where he runs the Booker Print House. His work explores the properties of ink and wood, and is often influenced by his long-standing fascination with ships, shipwrecks and the sea. Trained at the University of Brighton and Camberwell College of Arts, Alex has exhibited his print artworks internationally; created wallpaper for WeTransfer; and worked with the likes of Ma-tt-er and PATTERNITY on art and design events, including London Design Festival. 

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James Russell is an independent art historian and writer and is the curator of ‘Edward Bawden’. He is the author of The Lost Watercolours of Edward Bawden (Mainstone Press), a study of Bawden’s 1930s paintings, as well as titles devoted to Eric Ravilious and other artists of the period.

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