New Ashgate Gallery

01/06/2026

Bold marks, bright colour and a strong sense of place.

Michelle Griffiths RE creates screen prints that balance structure, energy and instinct. In Design for a Butterfly Warehouse and Sense of Place, strong black brush-like forms sit against layered colour, giving the works a lively, immediate presence.

Michelle exhibited widely, with 24 solo exhibitions across the UK, and her work is held in collections including the Arts Council England and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

See Michelle’s work in The Art of Place: Royal Society of Printmakers RE at New Ashgate Gallery, until 27 June.

Free entry. Works available to buy.

https://www.newashgate.org.uk/shop_artists/15356/c/11/michelle-griffiths/print

31/05/2026

Architecture, memory and movement collide in Sumi Perera's work. Sumi (RE) is an interdisciplinary artist, academic, curator and adjudicator whose print practice often moves beyond the flat surface into installation and interactive work.

In Quo Vadis...XXIII (first image, detail), Sumi builds a layered image of structure, pattern and light. Architectural forms appear and disappear through rich surfaces, creating a work that feels part city, part memory, part question.

Sumi’s wider practice draws on her background as a doctor and scientist. Her works have used sound, colour-changing inks and light-responsive materials, bringing printmaking into dialogue with science, technology and space.

See Sumi’s work in The Art of Place: Royal Society of Printmakers RE at New Ashgate Gallery, until 27 June.

Free entry. Works available to buy.

https://www.newashgate.org.uk/shop_artists/7466/c/11/sumi-perera/print

30/05/2026

Ian Rawlinson (RE) explores a place held between memory and change.

Ian is an interdisciplinary artist and writer whose work explores places of transition, memory and inner experience. In Mere (grey), layered black-and-white imagery creates a quiet, reflective space where landscape, recollection and atmosphere seem to overlap.

Ian’s practice traces the point where physical place and psychological space meet. His work has been shown widely in the UK and internationally, including at Bankside Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts, the ICA, the V&A and the Royal Festival Hall.

See Ian’s work in The Art of Place: Royal Society of Printmakers RE at New Ashgate Gallery, until 27 June.

Free entry. Works available to buy.

https://www.newashgate.org.uk/shop_artists/15358/c/11/ian-rawlinson/print

29/05/2026

Sarah Granville's (ARE) landscape is shaped by line, light and human presence. She draws on her background in architecture. She is interested in the built world, light, colour and form, especially places where human intervention has left traces in the landscape.

In Land 2 (the first image, detail), Sarah uses spitbite etching to create a wide, open landscape of fields, tracks and distant hills. The image feels both observed and abstracted, with drawing at its core.

Sarah often begins outside, drawing plein-air in sketchbooks, before developing work in the studio through painting and printmaking. Her print processes include sugarlift, spitbite, aquatint, intaglio, relief print, monotype and collagraph.

See Sarah’s work in The Art of Place: Royal Society of Printmakers RE at New Ashgate Gallery, until 27 June.

Free entry. Works available to buy.

https://www.newashgate.org.uk/shop_artists/15362/c/11/sarah-granville/print

28/05/2026

Marianne Ferm VPRE studies the movement of water, from turbulent seas to waterfalls. 'In Ocean', she captures the force, spray and shifting structure of water through aquatint.

Marianne draws and paints directly onto the etching plate, balancing fine detail with spontaneous marks, splashes and sprays. Her work also reflects concern for coastlines shaped by erosion, high tides and the impact of human activity on the natural world.

See Marianne’s work in The Art of Place: Royal Society of Printmakers RE at New Ashgate Gallery, until 27 June.

Free entry. Works available to buy.

https://www.newashgate.org.uk/shop_artists/15351/c/11/marianne-ferm/print

27/05/2026

Village life, but with secrets! Professor David Ferry PRE brings humour, mystery and sharp observation to The Village Gossip (detail) and The Village Clairvoyant (detail). These richly layered digital archive prints place vivid figures and flowers against old village settings, turning familiar places into scenes of rumour, intuition and quiet drama.

David’s work often plays with found imagery, memory and visual culture. Here, the village becomes more than a place. It becomes a stage for the things people sense, share, hide and half-understand.

See David’s work in The Art of Place: Royal Society of Printmakers RE at New Ashgate Gallery, until 27 June.

Free entry. Works available to buy.

https://www.newashgate.org.uk/shop_artists/14596/c/11/david-ferry/print

26/05/2026

Richenda Court RE creates prints from fluid, detailed drawings, allowing ideas to develop instinctively as the image takes shape. In Summer Glass (the second image), fine lines, plant forms and a still human presence come together in a work that feels reflective, intimate and quietly charged.

Richenda’s background in dance and fine art can be felt in the poise of her figures. Her prints often explore inner states: reflection, longing, isolation, uncertainty and connection.

See Richenda’s work in The Art of Place: Royal Society of Printmakers RE at New Ashgate Gallery, until 27 June.

Free entry. Works available to buy.

https://www.newashgate.org.uk/shop_artists/2333/c/11/richenda-court/print

25/05/2026

London, but not as you know it.

In Mychael’s prints, familiar places become full of wit, history and hidden detail. In Primrose Hill – Summer, after Bruegel and The Serpentine, Hyde Park – Autumn, after Bruegel, London is reimagined through the spirit of old master painting, with picnickers, cyclists, trees, skylines and small human dramas all carefully staged.

Mychael is known for visual storytelling, rich references and clever humour. His work often draws on art history, literature, maps and city life, inviting you to look once, then look again.

Originally from Toronto, Mychael has lived and worked in the UK since 1984. He studied at Central Saint Martins and is a Fellow and former President of the Royal Society of Printmakers RE.

See Mychael’s work in The Art of Place: Royal Society of Printmakers RE at New Ashgate Gallery.
2 May – 27 June 2026
Free entry. Works available to buy.
https://www.newashgate.org.uk/shop_artists/3260/c/11/mychael-barratt/print

24/05/2026

Architecture as memory. Technology as landscape.

Ian Chamberlain turns manmade structures into powerful monuments within the landscape. His etchings record places shaped by industry, science, agriculture and defence, including sites that were once at the forefront of technology but are now changed, repurposed or left behind.

Ian is especially interested in using the traditional process of etching to capture modern structures. This contrast gives his work its particular strength: a 500-year-old print process used to record the remains of technological progress.

His subjects have included Goonhilly Earth Station, the Lovell Telescope, the Maunsell Sea Forts, the North Atlantic Wall and Acoustic Sound Mirrors. More recent works look at shelters as places of safety, isolation and recovery.

See Ian’s work in The Art of Place: Royal Society of Printmakers RE at New Ashgate Gallery.
2 May – 27 June 2026
Free entry. Works available to buy.
https://www.newashgate.org.uk/shop_artists/15350/c/11/ian-chamberlain/print

24/05/2026

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The New Ashgate Gallery launched its Craft Your Year 2026 programme at the Farnham Wellbeing and Sustainability Festival in Gostrey Meadow on May 17.