Diana Bourdon-Smith Drawing Prize

Congratulations to Paul Newman for winning the Diana Bourdon-Smith Drawing Prize at this years Bath Society of Artists Annual Open. 
For the second year running no less.

The exhibition runs from 5th April to the 31st May at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bridge Street, Bath.

White Heart exhibition

Our exhibition of Gillingham artists is coming to a close.  If anyone's not made it down we're open today tomorrow and Saturday from 10am to 5pm.

The Private View was amazing, a very exciting buzz in the gallery.

We were very lucky to have Marieke Beyer of Harp Nouveau and Stephen Coles of Coles Castings in the gallery playing the harp and the water bowl on Saturday 22nd March.  It was to celebrate both the White Heart exhibition and our reopening following the fixing of our roof.  It seemed appropriate to have a water bowl being played to celebrate the sealing of all the leaks in the roof.  

We have a video which we'll post up soon.

More exciting news than I can handle

News number 1.  Our Spring exhibition is starting next week, opening to the public on the 21st of March (Friday) with the private view on the 20th March (Thursday) at 6.30pm.

We have entitled it 'White Heart' to represent the White Hart of Gillingham and the community spirit that is ever growing within Gillingham.  We are very happy to have set up here, and to have an exhibition of Gillingham artists. 

The submissions were very varied, and too numerous to fit into our small gallery, so we have split it into 2 separate exhibitions.  The first is as described above, and the second will start on the 10th of April.

News number 2. We are very excited to announce that we have Marieke Beyer and Stephen Coles coming on Saturday the 22nd March playing the harp and water bowl.  This is a real opportunity to experience these two sounds together, and I guarantee it's a sound you won't have heard before.  Utterly magical and beautiful in equal measures.  This event is free to attend, but we will have a donation bowl to try and cover costs.

News number 3.  Jason Miller, one of our favourite people, has been awarded first place in the First Poole Open exhibition.  The exhibition is in Poole Museum and runs from the 12th March until the 5th May.  We will hopefully be able do announce dates of a solo show from Jason Miller at The Old Print Room soon.

Very exciting news

The Old Print Room Reopens!

We are very happy to announce that our roof is now watertight and we are open again.

The picture framing is fully functioning, and have an increased range of mouldings on offer.  I have amalgamated the framing blog with this blog now, so posts will be more frequent and will relate to everything we do here at The Old Print Room.

I'm also happy to announce the completion of our framing website - check it out here.
Our Gallery website is coming very soon, so soon I'm going to put the link up here as well.

The Gallery will celebrate its reopening with an exhibition in late March showing artists of Gillingham.  The date and title of the show is as yet undecided, but will become apparent as we get more submissions in.
We do know that the reopening will feature Mareike Beyer, a harpist based in Dorset, playing together with an interactive sculpure called a singing water bowl played by Stephen Coles - a sculptor and owner of Coles Casting in Shaftesbury.  See our Facebook page for more information - www.facebook.com/theoldprintroom


There are a number of exhibitions planned for the coming year, featuring a number of solo exhibitions and group shows.

We're very excited about the year ahead!