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Louise ScammellPrintmaker
Louise ScammellPrintmaker
Louise Scammell is a printmaker based in South Devon. She prints in her own studio and teaches at the Art House, South Brent.
Louise gathers ideas for her work from walking on Dartmoor and from the South Devon coast where she dives, rows and fishes. She is happiest when she can translate her field sketches into prints. Copper, lino and wood and other materials are used to make plates and she enjoys the endless possibilities of mark making on the surface of the plates and the inevitable excitement of lifting the first print proof off the press - the start of a new edition . . .
Click here for more about Louise . . . Watch the video below to see her at work . . .
Louise Scammell
1978 | Lincoln College | ‘Conservation and Restoration of Traditional Arts and Crafts’
1981-96 | Freelance graphic illustrator
1998 onwards | member and teacher at Dartington Print Workshop
Last 9 years | Workshops with Schools and Teachers in Devon
2015 | Joined the Devon Guild of Craftsmen 2015
Exhibitions
1998 | Dartington Gallery
1999 to present | Devon Open Studios
1999 | Mixed media exhibition | Nagi Moca Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
1999 | Bartley Drew Gallery, London
1999 | Trees of Dartington | Dartington Hall
2000 to present | ‘off the peg’ | Dartington
2000 | The deep blue and beyond | Cove’s Quay Gallery, Salcombe
2000 | Harbour House, Kingsbridge
2002 - 5 | Surface to Abyss | Solo Exhibition | National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth
2002 | Impressions (the art of the printmaker) | On the Wild Side Gallery, Malvern
2012 | Birds | Birdwood House
2013 | The working landscape | Birdwood House
2015 | Society of Wildlife Artists Annual Exhibition | Mall Galleries
2016 | Fur Feather and Fin | Birdwood House
the prints
SMALL PRINTS & CARDS can be bought from this website.
The LARGER WORKS that you can see in the site galleries can be viewed and purchased from galleries throughout the South West of England: -
1 Prismatic (Magnificent Devon Makers)
51 Fore Street, Totnes, TQ9 5NL.
tel: 01803 867154
2 Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey
3 Hope Cove Gallery
4 Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton
A NEW PROJECT
I am a keen free diver and have wanted to make a body of work describing underwater landscapes for some years. The act of diving is an intense experience, the light and colour changing in a moment. I love the anticipation of seeing something shimmering, unknown, fleeting...
The idea of drawing both in and underwater started forming in my head. I wanted to be able to translate sketches directly into print, so I needed to find a way of printmaking to enable me to do this.
Luckily I found a course in Spain and in 2017 went to study a process called 'Mokulito.' a type of lithography using plywood instead of stone as the substrate whic allows reproduction of the drawn mark.
A NEW PROJECT
I am a keen free diver and have wanted to make a body of work describing underwater landscapes for some years. The act of diving is an intense experience, the light and colour changing in a moment. I love the anticipation of seeing something shimmering, unknown, fleeting...
The idea of drawing both in and underwater started forming in my head. I wanted to be able to translate sketches directly into print, so I needed to find a way of printmaking to enable me to do this.
Luckily I found a course in Spain and in 2017 went to study a process called 'Mokulito.' a type of lithography using plywood instead of stone as the substrate whic allows reproduction of the drawn mark.
