Canal Linocut Exhibition at Audlem Mill

Audlem Mill – July 14th to August 3rd

The atmospheric exhibition of linocut art by celebrated canal artist Eric Gaskell can be seen at Audlem Mill.

The show features works that look at a variety of canal-based motifs: the lock gates, the tumbling water, townscapes and landscape, the boats.

All the prints are taken from limited edition sets, printed using either multi-block or reduction methods.

Eric Gaskell says: "The eddying waters, the still water, the rain peppered surfaces. The multi-storey, the warehouse, the cottage and the boatyard. The barge, the boat, the lock-gate, the keel and the ropework. All these things and more keep me returning to the canal as a continuing source of inspiration to create figurative and abstract image.

"This set of work uses a variety of lino and relief printmaking techniques, and looks at both the small things on the canal, the gear, the gates and the big things. The work cover a wide range of motifs, that I think combine to give a different view- my view- of the canal."

Eric Gaskell was born in Wigan, studying painting/ printmaking at Wigan and Sunderland. He left art college in 1980, winning two scholarships to New York and Istanbul.

He has been creating art, illustration and design for more than 32 years and has exhibited widely in one-man and group shows in the UK, Europe and North America. His work has been published and is in many private collections.

His small book "Canal Linocuts" (available at Audlem Mill) has become a cult book for collectors.

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