This woodgrain print is the largest I have completed so far – the slice of timber is about 80cm across, so it needed lots of sanding, burning, inking and burnishing! Ella Webb, my wonderful framer, has complemented the image with a charcoal mat and Victorian mountain ash frame. This piece was chosen as the winner of the Contemporary Art Prize at the recent Hamilton Rotary Art Show, which was very exciting! The judge is the new curator at the Hamilton Gallery and I was pleased to see some other printmakers amongst the prize winners.

It has been quite a while since I posted here, but if you follow me on Instagram (@brittgow) or Facebook, you will know that I have been very involved with the start up of a new community gallery at 38 Bank Street, Port Fairy, in SW Victoria. A group known as South West Makers began advocating for a maker space, retail gallery, exhibition space, studios and workshop rooms in 2021. We found an ex-solicitors’ rooms that has huge potential to fulfill all these functions. So far we have textile artists, glass blowers, jewellers, ceramicists, printmakers, painters, eco-dyers, patchworkers and even a staff and wand maker! So, if you are in the area, be sure to come and visit.