This is a wonderful screenprint of Begonias by highly regarded artist Mary Newcomb. From the Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop with their embossed stamp this is the H/C. Hors d’Commerce (a French term and very similar to an Artist Proof. It means not for commerce, or not for sale. They tend to be given by the artists as gifts and are quite rare).
H/C is initialled in the bottom left hand corner.
It is signed in pencil on the bottom right hand corner
I understand this was a limited edition of 60 and produced in 1997
The frame size and is 67cm x 71.5cm.
Her work is shown at the Krane Calman Gallery London
https://www.cranekalman.com/artists/52-mary-newcomb/works/
This is a link to one of her screenprints which is listed at £1950
https://www.jennaburlingham.com/artists/146-mary-newcomb/works/11299-mary-newcomb-the-butterfly-arena-the-castle-ruins-hyeres-1997/
Mary Newcomb (nee Slatorn) (1922-2008) was born in
Harrow-on-the-Hill, but she developed a passion for the English
countryside while growing up in Wiltshire. After a general sciences
degree at Reading University, she taught maths and science at Bath High
School. On a trip at Walberswick, she met trainee farmer Godfrey
Newcomb, who had been raised in India. After their marriage they lived
on small farms in the Waveney valley where a fledgling painter would
find everything she needed for her art. Her first creative venture was
in clay: she and Godfrey turned out decorative slipware which harked
back to medieval pots and was popular with a new wave of craft shops.
Within a few years Godfrey was running the farm and pottery, as Mary
finally found her vocation in painting.
She became a stalwart of the Norwich Twenty Group, before daring to
take a bag of work to London dealer, Andras Kalman. On that occasion the
Knightsbridge premises were thronged with people, so Mary went home
again. But her second attempt resulted in an instant meeting of minds
and the start of a model relationship between artist and dealer.
With a dozen solo exhibitions at Crane Kalman from 1970, and further
shows across Europe and in America, the Newcomb name was firmly on the
map. There were purchases by numerous public galleries including the
Tate Gallery, London.
Mary died in 2008.