The Print Show

In the early 1970’s Compass Gallery, drawing on its strong working relationships with many of the London galleries, such as Marlborough and Waddington’s and other Cork Street galleries, presented print exhibitions by some of the foremost names in contemporary Modern British art such as Hoyland, Hodgkin, Piper, Pasmore, Ackroyd, Caulfield, Frink, and the St. Ives Group of artists. Scottish printmakers also became regular exhibitors in Compass.

These exhibitions enabled the Scottish audiences to view and make acquisitions of works by the UK’s foremost printmakers. Compass regularly visited the print workshops which had opened and developed across Scotland in the 1960’s and 70’s, selecting and exhibiting a wide variety and range of prints, styles and techniques of printmaking, celebrating the many artists who expanded their practice, exploring new creative possibilities presented to them through a huge variety of methods such as wood engravings, etchings, lithographs and screenprints.

This exhibition includes work by both high profile and emerging artists, as well as those whose printmaking accompanies their painting and sculptural work. Please enjoy browsing this online exhibition on our website, where new works will be added regularly. This is a small selection of the hundreds of talented printmakers who exhibit in our galleries.

  • woodland landscape

    Bet Low

    Lennox Woods

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  • abstract

    Alan Davie

    Magic Pictures, Festival exhibition poster

  • abstract

    Ian McKenzie Smith CBE PPRSA PPRSW RGI

    Deep Space

  • an old pier

    Philip Reeves RSA PPRSW RGI RE

    Old Pier

  • landscape

    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA RSW RGI

    Crail, Scotland II

  • birds

    Alasdair Wallace

    Roost

  • figures

    Ana Maria Pacheco

    Dark Event V

  • seascape

    Gregor Smith RSW

    Kilcreggan Beach, Argyll

  • figure

    Craig Mulholland

    Carmel, 1993

  • a fisherman

    John Bellany CBE

    Old Man and the Sea

  • a pony

    Helen Fay

    Dales Pony

  • a pebble shore

    Frances Walker RSA

    On a Raised Beach

  • landscape

    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA RSW RGI

    Crail, Scotland I

  • garden scene

    Jack Knox RSA RSW RGI HFRIAS D.Litt

    Chair & Watering Can

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  • seascape

    Gregor Smith RSW

    Dark Sea in the Sound

  • a tiger

    Damian Henry

    Wild Tiger

  • a dog lying down

    Helen Fay

    Floss

  • birds

    Alasdair Wallace

    Flock

  • flowers

    Bob Batchelor

    Poppies

  • Barbara Robertson

    Town & County, True to Type

  • two figures

    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA RSW RGI

    Bound to Love and Cherish

  • seascape

    Gregor Smith RSW

    Sound of Jura

  • two figures

    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA RSW RGI

    Tete a Tete

  • palm trees and flowers

    Bob Batchelor

    Tropique

  • landscape

    Norman Ackroyd CBE RA

    Ballater at Dawn, 1986

  • abstract

    Ian McKenzie Smith CBE PPRSA PPRSW RGI

    Echobasin

  • a pony

    Helen Fay

    Swish

  • a dove

    Jack Knox RSA RSW RGI HFRIAS D.Litt

    Dove

  • Adrian Wiszniewski RSA RSW RGI

    Raven

  • a bridge

    Norman Ackroyd CBE RA

    Bridge, 1970

  • a man smoking

    Peter Howson OBE

    Man with cigarette, 1982

  • figures

    Kurt Mair

    Consolamentum, Jaune

  • flowers

    Norman Ackroyd CBE RA

    Flower Piece

  • figures

    Michael McVeigh

    In the hands of the Gods

  • figure

    Kurt Mair

    Au Point

  • two figures

    Adrian Wiszniewski RSA RSW RGI

    Tate-Etat

  • a party

    Peter Howson OBE

    A Christmas Party, 1982

  • two islands

    Norman Ackroyd CBE RA

    St Kilda, Rain, 1993

  • landscape

    Frances Walker RSA

    Wet Hay, Harris, 1986

  • two dogs

    Peter Bevan

    Twa Dugs

  • a pigeon

    Shona Kinloch

    Swagger

  • abstract

    PJ Croft

    Flag for a Future, 1987

  • abstract

    William Gear

    Caged Form, 1969

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  • abstract

    Philip Reeves RSA PPRSW RGI RE

    Thaw

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  • figures

    Peter Howson OBE

    Moth, 1986

  • a pigeon

    Shona Kinloch

    Eh!

  • two heads

    John Piper

    Foliate Heads 2, 1975

  • a bird

    Shona Kinloch

    Huff

  • figures in a street

    Philip Reeves RSA PPRSW RGI RE

    Aldgate East, 1953

  • a pigeon

    Shona Kinloch

    Shoo!

  • cranes

    Philip Reeves RSA PPRSW RGI RE

    Cranes at Wandsworth

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  • a sliced cauliflower

    Philip Reeves RSA PPRSW RGI RE

    Cauliflower

  • flowers

    Bob Batchelor

    Poppies ii

  • st kilda

    Norman Ackroyd CBE RA

    St Kilda, Rain, 1993

  • green landscape

    Frances Walker RSA

    Winter Walk

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