From February 28th until March 29th, the National Printmaking Festival 2009, organised by the Gloucestershire Printmaking Cooperative, is taking place in Stroud. I only mention this because my print Boplicity is going to be 'representing' me as a member of the Double Elephant Print Workshop (along with the work of four other members). The catalogue is testament to how many incredibly impressive printmakers are out there, and looking through it made me wonder if I was a worthy exhibitor (you can access it online)! If you are anywhere near Stroud in March, check it out, and hey, why not defy the economic climate and blow some cash (preferably on Boplicity!)

Nicholson, Hepworth and Moore in Norwich

Here's another exhibition I will struggle to get to and will have to make-do with the catalogue: Moore, Hepworth, Nicholon: A Nest of Gentle Artists in the 1930s. An odd subtitle, taken from Herbert Read, but if the exhibition is as good as previous ones at the Castle Museum in Norwich, it should be worth a visit (although a bad exhibition with the work of these three is worth a visit).

Why Norwich? Well, the rather tenuous link is that they all took a holiday together (with others) to Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast, where Hepworth and Nicholson fell in love on their second visit.