Main Gallery
Fabio Gasparri, John Edmond, Maureen Steuart, Maureen Isnor, Robert Creighton and Maureen Paxton:
The Hive Printmakers
December 12th, 2025 – January 2nd, 2026
Opening Reception: December 12th, 7-9PM
Image Credit: Courtesy of the artist.
About the Exhibition
Hive printmakers work in traditional media, which include lithography, intaglio and relief (e.g., wood and linoleum) prints. The presses they use are basically of the same designs dating back centuries, and in the case of relief, since 220 CE. The Hive group comes together in the Traditional Studio at Centre[4]Arts on a weekly basis and has done so for a very long time. Members both learn from and teach each other.
The Traditional Printmaker
Draws and paints, scrapes and erases, rubs and files.
Works with copper, acrylic, lino, lead, zinc and wood.
Sometimes it’s stone, graining it down at the grinding sink, hours and hours pursuing a certain surface.
Tools include scissors, knives, scribes, razors, burins, brushes, burnishers, tusche and crayons.
Materials (an edited list): water and acid, spirits and oil, soap and sugar, asphaltum and wax, gum and resin.
Then comes paper: hoarded, counted, folded, torn – multiple colours from around the world.
And then there’s ink and then the rollers and then the press.
At the very last, hello, the prints.
