Exhibition
During the last 10 or so years of her long career, printmaking became a central part of Barns-Graham’s practice, particularly after 1998 when she began working with Graal Press. Earlier prints, such as the three etchings she made with Rachel Kantaris in St Ives in 1996 (such as Scorpio I, above) were based on existing works. Later, working with Graal’s Carol Robertson on a series of over 60 screenprints, these were mostly entirely original – envisaged and made purely as prints – though a conversation with ongoing painting series was often maintained. This exhibition will for the first time examine the fascinating and dynamic relationship between these two distinct areas of Barns-Graham’s practice, by showing related paintings, prints and overpainted prints together.