Blog - Meet the Maker
We are Sandra and Jim Salter and we live with our family above the Salty’s Studio shop in Ashburton, Devon. We moved here three years ago, looking for a home with studio space, but then we saw this shop with a house attached and thought let’s give a workshop/shop a go. We saw other makers/shops …
Describe your printmaking process. I design and print fabric, mainly linens and hemp fabrics. I use wooden blocks which I carve using a CNC router. I love the heaviness of old Indian wooden blocks which you can load a thick layer of ink onto, I wanted to create my own versions of these. I first …
I’m Shelly Brown – an illustrator and printmaker based in lovely Ely, Cambridgeshire. I mainly create lino prints with a focus on people, and connection. Describe your printmaking process. My process changes every single day. I still haven’t worked out a magic formula for getting things perfect, and tend to go with the flow. It’s …
I am a full time printmaker specialising mainly in reduction linocuts (sometimes monotypes). I grew up in South Africa where I met my Scottish wife. We live and work between our two countries but mainly in Scotland. Describe your printmaking process. I start by taking my own photo reference, drawing on my lino with a …
My name is Rachel Winsper, I’m a pattern maker and hand printer based in South Staffordshire. I work from a small pink studio at home, surrounded by patterns and colours. I create handprinted wallpaper and decorative printed items for the home. Describe your printmaking process. Once I have an idea for a pattern, I like …
Hi, My name is Paul Cleden; I am a printmaker living in Dorset. I create relief prints, collagraph, and card prints, but the majority of my work is currently multi-block Lino Cuts, although a recent collaboration with the Penfold Press means that I’m also now making screen prints – all very exciting. My background is …
My name is Jody O’Reilly, I live on the edge of the Cotswolds in the Evenlode Valley in Oxfordshire, close to where I grew up. The small town we now live in has lots going on including a busy and active art society; we love where we live. I have two children and a husband …
Hello, I’m Nawel. I’m a self taught screen printer and have been running my small sustainable brand, Good Girl Gang, since 2018. Describe your printmaking process. Everything you need for scr...
I am a part-time weekend printmaker. During the week I like to spend my time packing and posting out printing supplies to printmakers around the country! My main printing love is li...
I am an artist printmaker producing original botanical relief prints. I predominantly create reduction linocuts made by carving my drawings on traditional lino and Japanese vinyl cutting surfaces using specialist carving tools, inking with oil-based printmaking inks and printing by hand or with an etching press. Since May 2018 to date, I have been working …
I am a GP and mum-of-two, living in east London – with a side-hustle in printmaking. I’m self-taught and have dabbled in etching, monotype and collagraph but am currently working in linocut. Describe your printmaking process. I usually sketch out ideas and then either draw directly onto the lino with a sharpie or transfer to …
My name is Alice, and I am half Italian / half British. Although I grew up in Italy, I’ve been living mostly in the UK since I went to university in 2013. Printmaking for me is just a hobby at this stage, but I do hope one day I can make it into something more, …
My name is Bryan Angus, a visual artist specialising in lino printing. Originally from Aberdeen, I’ve travelled about the country a bit and now live in Banff, close to where my family roots are. I trained in painting in the late 70s in Aberdeen but spent most of my working life not making art. I …
Hey, my name is Anna, I am 34 years old and from Germany. I started linocut printing in 2018 but my first printing experience was during my product design studies at University. I love bold and colourful…
When I start a new design, I usually draw straight onto the lino and create the image as I go along. Recently though I have been planning out my prints using Corel Clip Studio on my laptop. It has helped me have a clearer idea of how . . .
We've had a fantastic array of talented printmakers to keep us inspired over the last year via our Meet the Maker blog feature. Here is a round-up of all the artists featured this year. Grab yourself a drink, pop your feet up and browse this showcase of work alongside . . .
Hello, my name is Susan and I’m a printmaker/illustrator living in West Sussex with my Italian husband and little boy. I moved back to the UK 6 years ago after living abroad in Rome and Barcelona for 20 years. Describe your printmaking process. I work mainly in collagraph and intaglio. I also like to combine …
Martin Truefitt-Baker is a fine art printmaker and painter living in the Brecon Beacons national park, South Wales, UK. His linocuts use a reduction method, using a single piece of lino. This is progressively cutaway and overprinted onto paper several times, in a succession of tones, to build up the final image. The prints are …
I’m Sarah Cemmick, a linocut printmaker based in the Eden Valley in Cumbria. I have been printmaking for over twenty-five years (give or take a couple of children mid-way through) having graduated from the University of Sunderland with a degree in environ...
Hi! my name is Sofia Salazar. I’m a textile designer from Argentina, and I’ve been living in Norwich for the past 8 years. I come from a family of makers and in my practice, I try to explore and experiment with almost every …
