Dickens 150: Medway Print Festival 2020

Dickens 150: Medway Print Festival 2020

Pandemic postponement of this exhibition due to open 5 December 2020. Prints will be exhibited in this delayed exhibition marking the 150th anniversary of the death of Dickens, who was so closely associated with Rochester, Hoo and Medway. #rochesterartgallery

1. The Often Overlooked Rose Maylie: “Heaven will never let her die so young.”

TheoftenOverlookedRoseMaylie

Category: Death in Dickens life & novels
Print medium (ie. etching, linocut): Linocut printed on handmade board; frottage; then hand tinted.
Approx framed dimensions: 23 x 61 cm.

2. A Child’s Dream of a Star
Category: Dickens and the Victorian way of death
Print medium (ie. etching, linocut): Frottage, overprinted with linocut. The colours were achieved by initially making rubbings of pre-prepared linocuts, then overprinting in black.
Approx framed dimensions: 53 x 40 cm.

3. “The savage distant lair from which the wind was rushing… and that small bundle of shivers growing…”

Category: Dickens and Medway
Print medium (ie. etching, linocut) Linocut overprinted on frottage.
Approx framed dimensions : 25 x 63 cm.

4. “The remote heights, stained by the setting sun as if a mighty quantity of red wine had been broached upon the mountain top, and had not yet had time to sink into the snow..”
Category: Death in Dickens life & novels / Dickens and the Victorian way of death
Print medium (ie. etching, linocut) Linocut.
Approx framed dimensions 36 x 64 cm.