Final prepping for Open To All exhibition this month

Ah, like the Royal Academy varnishing days of old, I’m varnishing very close to time for showing! Unfolding is almost ready to go with the next step being the gold rub on the sides. We show starting September 24th at St James Newcastle right in the city centre. All 13 works will be there until the end of October. The whole calendar is being prepared as I write.

Cathedrals and Churches Exhibitions

I’m delighted to say that we are in deep conversation with a range of large city centre Churches as well as a number of Cathedrals in addition to Coventry to begin our Open Table Network/EGK exhibition series in September this year. We’ll start in the Northeast. September is soon upon us and is in equal measure exciting and nerve wracking (!). Here is OTN’s message on their website. Below is another painting which will be on display - One.

One

Released for Sale - From Which You Were Hewn

We’re started. From Which You Were Hewn is now released from my exhibition collection and is released for sale. Please use my contact page if you are interested in the original or a print. The canvas you see here is mounted on a wider piece of dark slate - image at the bottom of this page. Click here for what it is/means to me and the full mounted image

A moment from a digital painting to be revealed in July

From closed to open and welcoming; here are hands from a moment in a large digital painting for worship to be revealed at the United Reformed Church General Assembly which starts at the end of this month. Other moments note generostity, gathering, prayer, connecting and so much more. Do look out for them all if you are there and come back here at the beginning of July to see the whole thing.

Watch this space - Exhibition works releasing for sale

It’s time. This small human begins to grin, realising that I’ve only just noticed I have to do this.

After many years (eons?) I’ve saved back some of my paintings for exhibitions only. I shape my exhibitions around conversations I hope may happen from them and therefore save a good number of my paintings for such chatting. Now that I have an excellent fine art printer, I have given myself permission to exhibit a painting quality print rather than an original for the sake of such conversations. Over this year and next, I will now be releasing a painting or two every month for sale. My appeal to you if you would like to buy one is to imagine it living in a space where people can have conversations from it. They somehow support very difficult conversations in spaces which feel safe because my images don’t blast you, but gently suggest a variety of viewpoints. Think hospices, retreat centres, community spaces, faith based buildings, counselling centres and more. Could a conversation piece on the wall help the work you do? Watch this space.

Open Table and Cathedrals

I am delighted to announce that EGK Art has joined forces with the Open Table Network and will be holding exhibitions in Cathedrals and town centre Churches over 2023 and 2024. February 2024, LGBTQ+ History Month, we are booked with Coventry Cathedral.

The Open Table Network exists to encouage welcoming church spaces for members and allies of people who identify as LGBTQ+. We decided to work together because we share a commitment to inclusivity in the name of God. We a have chosen city centre locations because they attract tourists who visit Cathedrals and notable buildings. Such visitor attractions are an ideal place to show via my artwork that inclusivity is possible, imaginable even, and shows up in images depicting God topics. If visitors can literally see people in gatherings with no barriers, it may be possible for them to a) begin to see that not all Christianity is exclusive to a few, and b) perhaps start believing the Gospel of wide ranging love.

Our relationship is that the exhibits are of my work, and 40% of sales from the exhibition (originals and ordered prints of any work sold because people learned of it from the exhibtion) will be given to the OTN. Some prints and cards will be sold by the Cathedrals or Churches so that they also can reimburse their own costs. If you worship in, or know of a city centre Church or Cathedral and would be interested in talking with us, please use my contact page to get in touch with me.

One of the paintings which will always be on display (the original or a print if the original is sold) is Nativity Tancred, looking at you from this page. He’ll have his own page in due course!

Please contact me if you would like prints. The following formats are available. All prints on paper are sold on ivory mounting board. Frames may be ordered. Prints on canvas are stretched on wood.

Art Prints: Art Prints are created with laser printers onto quality wood pulp art paper.

Gallery Poster: Gallery Poster is a typical art gallery format with laser printer on poster paper, supplied rolled in a tube.

Giclee Prints: Giclee Prints are inkjet sprayed onto quality cotton rag paper. They’re known for their vibrant colours, fine details, and archival quality. The term "giclee" comes from the French word meaning "to spray," referring to the precise inkjet spraying process used in their production. They’re guaranteed to last at least 100 years (though no one’s been alive long enough since development to know…)

Embellished Giclee Prints: Embellished Giclee Prints are customised by me adding details, textures, or hand-drawn elements to make each cotton paper print unique. The result is a print that combines the advantages of digital printing with a personal touch.

Giclee Prints on Canvas: Giclee Prints are inkjet sprayed onto artist canvas material. This gives the print a texture and appearance similar to a traditional painting on canvas so that they resemble original paintings.

Embellished Giclee Prints on Canvas: Embellished Giclee Prints on Canvas are customised by me adding details, textures, or hand-painted elements to make each print unique. Embellishments added on top of canvas give the print a more three-dimensional painterly effect.