Working from Bristol, UK, Brie Barnacle is an experimental printmaker who explores the medium of landscape as a metaphor for her lived experience of mothering and self-discovery. Using printmaking to capture the vitality of her children’s movement through nature, offering permanence to fleeting memories, Brie’s prints honour the connection between…
Carolin Müller is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar whose practice bridges the realms of printmaking, installation, and arts-based research. With a focus on memory, materiality, and sustainability, her work delves into the traces left behind by spaces, objects, and bodies, creating layered narratives of identity, resilience, and transformation. Carolin’s artistic…
Our Official POP Membership community represents a plethora of printmaking disciplines, artists, and companies. This month, we’re showcasing a selection of creators from our community who have worked with etching; a method of intaglio printmaking where an image is incised into a plate using chemicals. The results are atmospheric and…
Molly Wallis is a painter and printmaker living in Suffolk whose work predominantly focuses on the natural world. Currently, she is working on a long term project documenting the decline of UK birds in Mezzotint. She tells us; “I had always enjoyed printing alongside painting on my degree, however I…
Marta Dyer-Smith is an experimental printmaker and YouTuber specialising in collagraph printmaking. The Suffolk-based artist’s current practice involves the mixing of various different printmaking techniques to achieve unexpected results. Recently, Marta has been experimenting with all kinds of printmaking in her new series of prints focused on local Suffolk scenes.…
Plymouth-based visual artist Viv Spencer works across disciplines including printmaking, drawing, and photography. Her passion lies in sustainability, and within her art Viv aims to reuse and recycle materials as much as possible. Her practice is process-led, and she experiments and often combines methods, embracing the happy accident with works…
Magdalena Szata is an artist driven by an endless curiosity and a passion for experimentation, expressing her creative vision in many different forms. Currently, she involves herself in graphic projects, specialising in printmaking techniques such as linocut, etching, and pen and ink drawings on paper. “These methods offer a great…
Alongside several regional printmakers, Satinder Parhar was recently given the opportunity to use a Victorian Era press from 1810 as part of IKON Gallery’s Start the Press! show. The press was loaned from the University of Wolverhampton to the Gallery for their 60th Anniversary year. Between the 9th February and…
Printmaker, Professor, and Artist Roberta Feoli De Lucia’s connection with the press has its roots in childhood. Her GrandPa Peppino was the founder of the oldest weekly paper of the Sannio area, the Messaggio d’Oggi, and her mother took the reins becoming Director, making Roberta spend hours and hours of…
Portland-based Jonathan Barcan is a printmaker, painter, draftsman, and mixed media artist. The backbone of his work is drawing, however, today, he commonly focuses on the art of etchings and mixed media works on paper. His work is inspired by, and driven by the wish to understand the relationship between…
Fiona Hamilton is a multi-disciplinary printmaker and artist based in Bristol. Her work explores the ecological sublime and an appreciation of the majesty of nature. She uses detailed intaglio etching, drypoint, lithography, and chine collé to draw the viewer into an ethereal landscape that has an impact on our sense…
Lost Now Found was Ayeen/Sarah’s debut solo exhibition exploring the theme of rediscovering the beauty of nature in the overlooked. The show emphasised the value of appreciating the small details in nature, as it’s these little wonderments that tend to uplift us rejuvenate joy within us. Through her intaglio etchings,…
Our brand new platform, Gradspotters, is dedicated to launching and marking new talents into the world of printmaking and design. We are currently welcoming applications from recent graduates who are looking for a stepping stone to sucess with their print-related career. Benefits of the platform include social media and blog…
Jaco Putker is a contemporary artist and printmaker from The Hague, The Netherlands. He combines digital and traditional techniques to produce images which are both playful and sinister, nostalgic and magical. Jaco was educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, and also spent a year studying…
Jess Lolliot is a Manchester-based printmaker working across etching, linocut, screenprint, and monoprint. Jess flows between printmaking styles depending on her inspiration and mood, using a mixture of techniques to create her work, experimenting and often combining them to make her final pieces. She states; “For me, there is no…
Barcelona-based visual artist Micaela Muzi is currently working on a new project born from her fascination with mountains and outdoor explorations; An Ode to the Mountain. For the last three years, Micaela has been hiking in different places between Argentina (where she is from) and Spain (where she has been…
Back in June, UK-based artist and printmaker, Chris Long, was awarded 1st prize in the experimental printmaking category at the 11th International Miniprint of Kazanlak open. The winning print was Vista III, a carbarundum/drypoint. Vista, in this context, refers to a less common usage of the word, a glimpsed view…
Printmaker and researcher Robyn Maclennan is teaching a brand new course at Leicester Print Workshop this Autumn! Inspired by her research into EcoGothic landscapes, participants will have the opportunity to work experimentally with the landscape whilst learning multiple different Intaglio techniques. This course will cover the use of traditional hard…
Having studied BA (Hons) and an MA in Fine Art at the University of Wolverhampton, Satinder Parhar has continued his artistic practice ever since. This practice revolves around the relationship between the space, form, and the object. Satinder’s work examines the structures which form these interstices, the interstitial spaces that…
Mobile Print Studio (MoPS), led by David Farrar, travels all over the city of Glasgow delivering printmaking classes to a wide range of audiences. Aiming to bring printmaking to as many people as possible, David regularly loads up his bike trailer and cycles to locations including galleries, coffee shops, schools,…