A GROUP of printmakers inspired by Lakes artist John Ruskin will stage a new exhibition at his former Coniston home.

The Channelling Ruskin exhibition opens in Brantwood’s Severn Studio on Thursday August 11, and features the work of the Impress Artist Printmakers, who have taken inspiration from both the art and writing of Ruskin and his reverence for the natural world.

Through an exciting and innovative range of printmaking media and processes the Impress artists demonstrate their affinity with Ruskin’s vision through works that celebrate the rich diversity of nature.

They share Ruskin’s passion for observation and the desire to record and encapsulate a personal response to his or her natural environment.

The works in the exhibition range from intricately detailed depictions of texture, pattern and plant forms to more elusive forms suggestive of landscape. Visitors will also discover interpretations of intriguing structures that reveal human intervention in the natural world.

The Channelling Ruskin exhibition showcases the Impress Artist Printmakers versatile range of approaches and imagery. The vibrant combination of abstract and representational forms aims to inspire the visitor to find new and exciting ways of experiencing the natural world.

The Impress artists Jamie Barnes, Sue Davis, Ann Marie Foster, Marion Kuit, Laura Sowerby, Frances Winder, Deborah Windsor and Simon Wood met while teaching, taking courses or using the Printmaking Studio at the Brewery Arts Centre, in Kendal. They share a passion for printmaking, and for expanding the boundaries of their chosen medium, which includes, collagraph, dry point drawing, etching, linocut, woodcut, monotype, monoprint and trace drawing.

In their practices the Impress Artist printmakers draw on the legacy of renowned printmakers such as Rembrandt, Picasso and Helen Frankenthaler, while finding inspiration in the contemporary practices of Barbara Rae, Frank Auerbach and Howard Hodgkin.

Channelling Ruskin is on display in the Severn Studio at Brantwood, from August 11 to October 9, and will be open every day, from 10.30am until 5pm.

Admission is included in the house or garden ticket.