ALL DAY (FREE – DROP IN) DEMONSTRATION / WORKSHOP at ZILLAH BELL …with printmakers Kathryn Desforges and Sophie Layton Saturday 14 July, 2018 10 am – 4pm Join Kathryn and Sophie demonstrate within their practice different printmaking techniques, such as Carborundum, Etching, Woodblock and Blockprint.   For more information please contact the ZB team

Clare produces large scale stretched canvases which depict the urban fabric of our everyday lives. Her work combines a unique mix of photography, pattern design and digital imaging with the expression of outline, texture and relief through stitch. Her visual interest in the modern urban environment is inspired by her former career in surveying and […]

The Zillah Bell Gallery will be closed on Good Friday (14th April) until the following Tuesday (18th April). The Kate Evans and Anna King exhibition will continue until 29th April, so do make time to pop in and see it. Chickens in the Garden, wood engraving, Sue Scullard

The Zillah Bell Gallery was thrilled to exhibit at The Hepworth Wakefield Print Fair last weekend. It is the second year that the Gallery has had a stand at the Print Fair and it is always a busy weekend meeting lots of people and seeing some fantastic exhibitors – well worth a visit next year! […]

Norman Ackroyd, CBE, RA was born in 1938 in Leeds, North Yorkshire. He studied at the Leeds College of Art from 1956 to 1961, before attending the Royal College of Art, London, from 1961 to 1964. Ackroyd was elected as a Royal Academician in 1991, and was made a Senior Fellow at the Royal College of […]

Past and Present Opens 12th February.   Zillah Bell Gallery are excited to be collaborating with Inspired by… gallery at The Moors National Park Centre on their 10th Anniversary Exhibition ‘Past and Present’. A selection of etchings by Norman Ackroyd CBE RA will be on display alongside work by William Tillyer, Len Tabner, Peter Hicks, John […]

Jonathan Lloyd is painter and print-maker based in Northumberland. He studied Fine Art at Maidstone graduating in 1986. He was last year introduced to Zillah Bell Gallery after exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. We are delighted to have a selection of new prints by Jonathan. including:   Mirrored Bather 1, Woodcut, […]

A great review of Juxtaposition: Contemporary Printmakers

Thank you to everyone that joined us for the opening of Susie Dugdale and Susan Wilmots Exhibition as well as Piecing the Landscape by Emma Lawrenson. The exhibitions continue until Saturday 30th April, please see our exhibitions section for further details.  

Thank you to everyone that joined us for the Zillah Bell Gallery Exhibition Private View at  Eton College Drawing Schools.  In particular thank you to the organisers at Eton for hosting us and all contributing artists. The exhibition continues until Saturday 5th March please see our exhibitions section for further details.    

SOCIETY OF WOOD ENGRAVERS 78th Annual International Exhibition 5th March – 2nd April Private View: Fri. 4th March 6.30 – 8.30pm VICTOR PASMORE Rare printers proofs from White Ink printing Studio. 2nd – 23rd April SUSIE DUGDALE & SUSAN WILMOT Recent paintings 9th – 30th April Private View: Fri. 8th April 6.30 – 8.30pm CONTEMPORARY […]

We regret to announce Hilary Paynters wood engraving demonstrations on Thursday 19th November have been cancelled due to illness. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Zillah Bell Gallery is proud to announce Holmfirth-based artist Emma Lawrenson as the prize winner of the Zillah Bell Printmakers Prize. Emma will be having a solo exhibition with the gallery next year. Emma Lawrenson gained her Fine Art degree from the University of Reading and her Masters in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art, London.

It was lovely to see Wood Engraver Hilary Paynter at Zillah Bell Gallery to discuss her upcoming solo exhibition that opens this November.  

Available now at Zillah Bell! A Hebridean Notebook Date: 2015 Medium: Book Size: 215 x 152 mm Description: For decades the printmaker Norman Ackroyd CBE RA has been fascinated by the Hebrides and the ‘outlier islands’, the archipelago lying to the north-west of mainland Scotland. Inhabited since prehistoric times, some of the islands are now […]

‘North by north-west’ by Mary Miers.   A fantastic article about Norman Ackroyd’s working trip to the Skellig Isles.   A new suite of ten etchings from the trip will be exhibited at Zillah Bell Gallery this December.

Ian Davenport’s iconic Duplex Etching: Blue, Pink is at Zillah Bell Gallery as part of The Original Print Show curated by Norman Ackroyd CBE RA.  Learn more about Ian Davenport’s ideas and influences in the Summer Edition of Printmaking Today.

Norman Ackroyd CBE RA brings some of the most celebrated names in the art world to Zillah Bell Gallery this September! Including works by: Dame Elizabeth Blackadder RA, Stephen Chambers RA, Michael Craig-Martin RA, Frederick Cuming RA HON DLITT, Mali Morris RA, Hughie O’Donoghue RA, Humphrey Ocean RA, Chris Orr MBE RA, Cathie Pilkington RA, […]

A room of news works by Award winning author and illustrator Catherine Rayner will be on show in the upstairs galleries at Zillah Bell from the 1st August.

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    Woody, Etching, Ian McNicol Ian McNicol has been awarded the prestigious London Original Print Fair Prize at this years Royal Academy Summer show. Ian McNicol’s print ‘Woody’ is currently on show at Zillah Bell as part of the Scottish Printmakers Exhibition. Ends 30th June!

Jonathan Ashworth specialises in traditional woodcuts and wood engravings but recently he’s also been dabbling in screen printing and grabbing our attention with his latest portfolio additions. In his latest screen print, showing children climbing a tree his intricate marks and considered line work still play a large role and evoke a feeling of nostalgia […]

Katherine Jones has delivered 10 new works to Zillah Bell this weekend

Thankyou to everyone that joined us last Friday night for Chris Orr’s entertaining insight to his recent works on paper.  

  Neil Bousfield who is currently exhibiting at Zillah Bell with the Society of Wood Engravers 77th Annual Exhibition has an interesting feature in this months Printmaking Today : Profile : Vol 24 No 1 Spring 2015 .

29th May 6.30pm  We are delighted that Royal Academician Chris Orr will be giving an informal talk to coincide with the launch of his new works, including a major lithograph and screenprint ‘Redoubt’ inspired by Richmond, North Yorkshire – which will be exhibited at this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. If you would like to attend, […]

Printfest, the UK’s foremost artist led printmaking festival, has announced Jane Glynn as its Printmaker of the Year 2015. Dedicated to the exhibition and sale of contemporary prints, Printfest which began in 2001, has a national profile with many artists saying it’s their favourite show of the year.  The Printfest weekend in May sees 1,500 […]

We are pleased to announce that Katherine Jones has been named winner of the Printmaking Today Prize at this years RE exhibition! The Upper Print Galleries at Zillah Bell proudly showcase a few of her works.

Jonathan Ashworth who has been showing at Zillah Bell Gallery for the last few years, has been voted “best newcomer” at the annual exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers. The exhibition will come to ZBG in spring 2014. Slipstream, relief print by Jonathan Ashworth  

  Documentary New Series on BBC 4 – The first episode featured master etcher Norman Ackroyd CBE RA “The first in the series paints an intimate portrait of one of Britain’s finest landscape artist, Norman Ackroyd. Beginning with his morning bowl of porridge, we spend a day with him in his south London studio as he […]