Michael Atkin

Artist Printmaker producing limited edition etchings and lino prints & wood engravings

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‘The narrow Lane’ wood engraving on boxwood

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With the recent purchase of the Britannia Press, Joining the Albion Press & Columbian Press, just three of the platen presses at Bracken Press.

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A rookery, limited edition etching and aquatint, printed @brackenpress on a Harry Rochat etching press in an edition of 20 + 2 artist’s proofs

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Troutsdale, Lino print in a limited edition, Handprinted on an 1889 Albion press @brackenpress , Scarborough

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‘Cliff face, Whitby’ limited edition etching with aquatint 27 x 27 centimetres edition of 25 + 2 artist’s proofs. Handprinted onto Hannemuhle paper 140Lbs Not surface.

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Printing the last few copies in the edition ‘To evensong, Beverley Minster’ etching with aquatint

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‘Homeward’ a limited edition wood engraving on lemonwood, edition of 100, 10 x 15 cms, Handprinted onto Zerkall white smooth 120gsm paper using a Harrild & Sons table top Albion press from 1869

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‘Bringing home the tree’ wood engraving on English boxwood, hand printed using an 1869 Harrild & Sons table top Albion press

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Latest wood engraving ‘Christmas Bells’ cut into a small boxwood block, cut over five hours, proofed three times and finally editioned.

Image size 50 x 75 mm.Hand printed onto Zerkall smooth 120 gsm paper using an 1869 Harrild & Sons Table top Albion press. 

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Latest wood engraving ’Washday’ 6 x 4 (inches) hand printed onto 140gsm Zerkal smooth on an 1869 Harrild & Sons table top Albion press

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Delighted that my wood engraving titled ’Farmers market’ has been accepted by the Wood Engravers Network as one of 69 pictures to make up the fourth triennial exhibition which will your the USA from May 2020 to December 2023

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Printing this year's Christmas card, the wood engraving is being printed on a Table top Albion platen press, made by Harild & Sons in 1869 at Bracken Press.

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‘Back Lane crossroads’ limited edition etching & aquatint 6th proof , nearly ready to edition

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Last weekend of North Yorkshire Open Studios, 8th & 9th June 2019 over 100 artists open their studio to let you have a peak , www.NYOS.org.uk

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After a lot of huffing and puffing the Albion press has moved to its new location, to join two other platen presses and is up and ready for printing. Made in 1889 a double crown press made in Leeds, purchased by in 1974 from a printer in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.