Recent Work

Clare Melinsky's lino-cuts in colour and black and white follow the style of traditional woodcuts. Over the last twenty years her illustrations have been used in advertising, for labels and packaging, and in editorial work for books, magazines and newspapers.

To commission an illustration from Clare Melinsky please contact Benjamin Cox at the Central Illustration Agency, 17b Perseverance Works, 38 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8DD
Telephone: +44[0]20 3222 0007
E-mail: info@centralillustration.com

Spring Fling Exhibition 25th-27th May 2013

As a member of Spring Fling I am participating in this year's Open Studios event in Dumfries and Galloway, Southwest Scotland, during the May Bank Holiday. For its biggest event yet, Spring Fling 2013 will see 93 artists and makers open their doors to the public over the weekend.
A small press, ink and a roller will be ready for any visitor to make their own print from one of my lino cuts.
Once again I am sharing Jane Blair's lovely studio in Tynron, not far from where I live. Jane paints in large, almost abstract oils, the colours and moods of the landscape and the beasts which inhabit it.

www.janeblair.co.uk
www.spring-fling.co.uk
info@spring-fling.co.uk

Linocut printmaking workshop June 1st 2013

Saturday June 1st is my next printmaking workshop. Spend all day cutting lino and making prints upstairs at Thomas Tosh shop and cafe´. £50 includes a lovely lunch downstairs. I only have six students in a class, so you will get lots of attention, and enough time to complete some colourful prints to take away. Beginners are welcome, and those with experience.
Ring Thomas Tosh on 01848 331553 to book your place.
www.thomastosh.com

Wild Harvests

Nettle Soup

Two book covers that I illustrated recently for Fi Martynoga aka Fiona Houston, published by www.saraband.net.
Fi enthusiastically bemoans the evils of the modern diet. In The Garden Cottage Diaries she immerses herself in the 1790's for a whole year.
I do pick nettle tops in spring to jazz up my frozen spinach, but for Fi it is a way of life. Respect.
Hawthorn sandwich anyone?

February Workshops

The February workshops at Thomas Tosh are almost booked up: still two places left for Saturday 2nd February. I will be introducing the students to Easycut lino which, as it sounds, is easier for beginners who want to get quick results. We use artist's quality tools and ink from Lawrence www.lawrence.co.uk whose materials I have been using for over thirty years.

Lino cut printmaking workshops

Clare is running her popular lino cut one day workshops again. These take place at Thomas Tosh in Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, SW Scotland: gallery, shop and café. www.thomastosh.com
November 2012: Saturday 3rd, Friday 9th, Saturday 10th, Monday 19th
February 2013: Friday 1st, Saturday 2nd, Saturday 9th, Tuesday 12th
Each session costs £50 including an excellent Thomas Tosh lunch, and morning and afternoon refreshments. You will create a piece of work to take away with you. Please bring an apron or old shirt to protect your clothes. Beginners and returning students are welcome; minimum age 16; only six students per session so book your place by phoning 01848 331553 after 10th September. Come for more than one day if you like!
Lino cut is the printmaking technique Clare uses for her illustrations. You can see a video of her making a print on the Harry Potter page of this website.

Spring Fling 2-5 June 2012

For the four days of the Spring Bank Holiday, Dumfries and Galloway hosts the most successful open studios event of its kind in Scotland. This year Clare is participating again after a break of several years. Come to visit her exhibition at Jane Blair's studio in Tynron. Clare's lino cut prints and Jane's oil paintings make a dynamic and colourful show. Spring Fling 2012 takes place from 2nd to 5th June, with seventy-five studios open from 10.30 -5.30 each day.
Buy Clare's lino cut prints from £30-£300.
Visit our countryside, beaches, hills and gardens.
Find all the information you need by visiting
www.spring-fling.co.uk
www.janeblair.co.uk

Cabbages and Kings

Your chance to dip into the back catalogue: Clare has been invited to exhibit a wall of work at Thomas Tosh, in their spacious gallery in Thornhill. Framed and unframed lino cuts printed by the artist are for sale throughout February 2012.
Clare has been living and working near Thornhill, Dumfriesshire in South West Scotland for more than thirty years. Her everyday work is illustration, commissioned for books, magazines and packaging. Local interest in her new Harry Potter book covers, published in 2010, has encouraged her to exhibit in this unusual building with its gift shop and popular cafe´.
Clare will be running two workshops at Thomas Tosh during the exhibition introducing beginners to lino cutting and printmaking.

Visit the Thomas Tosh website for more details.
www.thomastosh.com

For contractual reasons, no Harry Potter images are for sale.

Fry Art Gallery

2011 Annual exhibition and sale at the Fry Art Gallery, Castle Street, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB10 1BD www.fryartgallery.org

Fifty invited artists, including Clare, exhibit at this popular event over one weekend. The gallery houses work by 20th century artists and designers who have local connections, notably Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious. It is well worth a visit to see their permanent display.

Opening hours for this exhibition:

12 November, 1-5pm
&
13 November, 11am-4pm

Autumn Exhibition

A varied selection of Clare's lino cuts is on show at the McGill Duncan Gallery in Castle Douglas, throughout September and October 2011. The original artist's prints are of work from the last twenty years, originally commissioned for books, magazines, newspapers and advertising; many of them have never been exhibited before. The prints are mostly smaller than 30cm, and are for sale, prices from £60-£250. Note that, because of contractual obligations, no Harry Potter cover images are in this exhibition.

Other artists in the Autumn Exhibition include Leo Blamire, Margaret Brampton, Diana Hope, Liz Knox, Hilke MacIntyre and Joe MacIntyre. The exhibition runs from 3rd September-29th October

McGill Duncan Gallery: open 10am-5pm Monday to Saturday
231 King Street, Castle Douglas, DG7 1DT t:01556 502468 e:zoe@mcgillduncangallery.com
www.mcgillduncangallery.com