Gail Brodholt

Not long now (I hope!)

Linocuts lend themselves very well to simplicity and spontaneity - I have a tendency to overcomplicate things!

This week’s progress and just one more colour to go. And which colour is this, I hear you ask - no idea but I’ll have to get a wriggle on or I’ll still be here at Christmas 😂
#Mudchute #allotments #linocut

For #valentinesday, here's my linocut 'Remember Me' - for all long lost lovers everywhere... ❤️
#blockprint #printmaking

I called this linocut, ‘The Golden Hour’ because I love that time just before sunset, when the light sometimes softens and warms and London briefly forgets it’s supposed to be grey, cold and drizzly. I’m sure I’m not the only one to pause for a moment on Blackfriars Bridge to admire that view ❤️

Thank you - and yes, it would be nice to make a fresh start this year wouldn’t it?

Better to be super organised than the other way round, that’s for sure!

I started this year thinking I was going to get super organised - a week later and I really can’t be arsed So instead of a picture of my neatly filled-in wall planner, here’s a linocut of Bethnal Green gas holders instead…
#ContemporaryPrintmaking #BlockPrinting

Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone! And thank you all for the support and kind comments that have warmed my rather chilly studio in this little corner of south east London over the past year - wishing you all good things for 2026!
#topnine #happynewyear

Eggs, fresh bread, a cool glass of wine, and a flower to rest your eyes on ~ I like the simplicity of 17th century German still-life specialist Georg Flegel’s ‘Snack with Fried Eggs’ (1630), State Gallery Aschaffenburg

And to you!

For the next two days, I plan to be flat out on the sofa, in front of the TV, with a glass of champagne continually topped up by a team of elves - well, a girl can dream…
Here's hoping all your Christmas wishes come true - have a good one and see you on the other side!
#HappyChristmas

Beautiful words from Margaret Atwood:
“This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future, the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar...”
#wintersolstice #linocut

Just a little reminder that tomorrow, Friday 19th, is the last day I can post prints in time for Christmas (UK only). 🎄

So, after a lot of effing and blinding, endless cups of tea and a little bit of crying in the corner, here is my latest linocut, Hinterlight. Hope you like it!
#Linocut #Printmaking #ContemporaryArt #blockprint

So, after a lot of effing and blinding, endless cups of tea and a little bit of crying in the corner, here is my latest linocut, Hinterlight. Hope you like it!
#Linocut #Printmaking #ContemporaryArt #blockprint

Thank you - and no, I only do my home city as I really need to know a place well before I start a new piece…

As usual, I’ve waited until the very last day of the month to post my linocut ‘November Rain’. Still, better late than never…
#YeOldeCheshireCheese

Thank you!

Municipal trees lead a sad sort of life - branches over-pruned, roots constrained by concrete, the iron guards used as handy rubbish bins and, lest we forget, peed on endlessly by passing dogs. Still, nothing says
#NationalTreeWeek like a London park with a few spindly trees thrown in…
#linocut

I was going to post a linocut of a railway bridge for #NationalBridgeDay…
But I don’t appear have done one - so here’s the old passenger footbridge at Farrington Station.
Although, now I come to think of it, it might be the other sort of bridge, as in the card game kind.
Oh well, too late now 😂

Here’s a great view from the passenger footbridge at Wandsworth Road Station. Sadly the gas holder was demolished to make way for blocks of flats and Battersea Power Station has been engulfed by, as I'm sure you've guessed, more flats, only now they're called luxury apartments 🫤
#printmaker #art

Oh dear! 🙁

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you! 😊

Train journeys are romantic I find - all those possibilities!

It's all happening for us train enthusiasts (or is it just me?) as today marks 200 years since the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in 1825 - the birth of the modern railway.
So here are some of the many railway linocuts I have done over the years - too many, I hear you say? Surely not… 😂

Thank you!

I have a linocut to suit every occasion - this one is called Tube Strike ☹️
#blockprint #londonprint #Londonart #linocut