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One of the leading British abstract painters of her generation, Gillian Ayres was also a dedicated and highly ambitious printmaker who experimented who used a variety of techniques from etching, woodcut and monoprint to the experimental use of carborundum. Often extensively hand painted, her prints rival the characteristic exuberance and vibrant colours of her paintings.

For the past five years, Jimmy Merris has been working on a series of woodcut prints and paintings with printed elements. Some of these works have as many as fifteen layers of ink on top of one another, resulting in a glossy, …