Justine Blau is an artist based in Luxembourg. She is a visual artist, creating pieces that explore the various languages and usages of photography. She is also interested in the role culture plays in shaping an environment or people’s interactions. Many of her pieces are treated with the complex and…
Boo Saville is a London based Artist and Printmaker. She explores the symbolic and ritualistic images of human remains and archeological remnants through the human body and source material of scientific or archaeological textbooks. These images are then portrayed in her own artistic way through painting and printmaking. Boo Saville…
Alex Boyd is a an award winning Scottish photographer based in the West Coast of Scotland, primarily known for his stunning photographs of landscapes around the many dramatic coastlines of the United Kingdom. His series titled, ‘Sonnets’ – a series of large format landscapes featuring a lone figure in some…
Darren Almond is a London based artist interested in time, place, personal history and collective memory. He makes sculptures, photographs, films and works on paper based on his travels, which often take him to remote locations—his film ‘In the Between,’ 2006, which focuses on the symbolic nature of the highest…
Leila Peterson is a Los Angeles based photographer who works primarily in film. As prints they are stunning and I stumbled across her work by accident researching fine art photographers. They have a sense of isolation to them especially in her series and my favourite, ‘Tiny Discoveries’. Natural raw landscapes…
Celine Marchbank is a London based documentary photographer, graduate of the MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication. Her work is based on finding and capturing the beauty in the small details of everyday life. My favourite range of her work is the pieces titled, ‘River…
Something very different, but these artists have collaborated on an ongoing exhibition titled ‘Seep’, which is an installation of video projections, objects and prints. One of the videos in the installation incorporates documents from the British Petroleum archive relating to a film that was produced by the Anglo Iranian Oil…
Catriona Gray is a London based photographer and printer. She works both in film and digital, producing visual and intellectually stunning photography. My favourite ones from her prints are the ‘The Might Caucasus’ and ‘The vastness of Mongolia’ both have deep underlying meaning yet still shows the dramatic landscape in…
Johanna Basford is an artist based in Scotland who graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone in 2005. Her illustrative style is very distinctive and is widely recognised within the artist world. She specialises in detailed ink drawings of various subjects, from flowers to hand drawn animals. I have followed her work…
Andrei Tarkovsky was a very popular Soviet and Russian film maker. I stumbled upon some of his photographs and with the film photography. I found them beautiful and wanted to share his book titled, ‘Instant Light’ which showcases all the photographic work he produced over the years and shares insight…
Madeline Mackay is an artist based in Dundee who graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone in 2012. She specialises in drawing, lithography and lithography on wood. Concepts relating to place and land informs the work. I find Madelines work very unique as not many artists use wood lithography and she does…
Fiona Hepburn who hails from Scotland and was educated at the London College of Art where she studied printmaking. She specialises in drawings, paper work and printmaking. Her lovely prints find inspiration from her Scottish heritage and natural history. She makes work in response to found organic objects, and is…
I first saw Anne’s work when I was at an exhibition in Reykjavik two weeks ago. It was an exhibition combining the work of Anne and Thora Sigurdardottir entitled ‘My Place/Your Place’ inspired by the dramatic wide-openness of the Icelandic landscape. Anne’s work is a combintation of prints, drawings and…
Barbara Rae is an established printmaker currently based in Scotland. Her work ranges from screenprints to etchings to large scale prints painted over for more texture. Rae uses washes of bold colour; merging form, line and hue into each other with dynamic composition, breaking up the picture surface with thrusting…
Donald Urquhart is an Edinburgh based artist who exhibits regularly both across Scotland and internationally. His concerns with issues of seeing and knowing, with respect to the landscape, can be seen as a continuum stretching back to his childhood in rural Highland Perthshire. Whilst grounded in the disciplines of drawing…
Chris Dury is a land artist making connections with different phenomena in the world, specifically between Nature and Culture. He colloborates with scientists and technicians from a broad spectrum of disciplines and use whatever visual means, technologies and materials best suit the situation. His prints are outstanding and my favourites…
Nobuhiro Nakanishi’s work is very different in terms of combining photography, print, film and installation, mixing them altogether to create something that astounds us all. Nakanish is a visual artist currently working in Japan. The theme of his work is “the physical that permeates into the art piece.” Nobuhiro Nakanishi…
Norman Ackroyds work consists of large scale prints of landscapes ranging from all over the UK. He is a landscape artist based in London and his prints range from tiny etchings intended to be bound into books to huge etchings showing the scale and detail of the coastal desolate places…
I stumbled upon Neil Krug’s work during some research of artist’s that mix photography with printmaking. Neil Krug is an American artist based in Los Angeles. He works primarily in photography and film. Krug, in a creative collaboration with Joni Harbeck founded PULP ART BOOK where his photography has been…