If you asked most people to picture a printmaker, they probably wouldn’t imagine someone who spends their days surveying buildings and their nights meticulously working over copper plates. But Daniel Connolly, better known in the studio and online as Daniel Printmaker, is exactly that kind of creative contradiction. Based between…
“I was born into intaglio engraving, so to speak,” says Anna Leckie of Geneva-based intaglio studio, Atelier Leckie. Both of Anna’s parents were craftspeople, each in their own field, which gave her a taste for manual work from an early age. Her father was a printmaker, and she fondly remembers…
Kelley Michelucci grew up on the San Francisco Peninsula. Her love for travel has taken her to a variety of areas including the Colombia River Gorge in Washington State, Sonoma, and as far as both Finland, and China. She now resides in Truckee, California which has been her families second…
In a 6700 square foot building in Buffalo, New York, you’ll find Mirabo Press; an independent fine art printmaking studio dedicated to expanding the local art scene by collaborating with both regional and national artists. Offering artist residencies, a collaborative printing service, workshops, and a gallery space, the press provide…
Carsten Wagner is a painter and printmaker living and working from Hamburg, Germany. “I see myself as an experimental printer and at least half of my inspiration comes from ‘the next technical variation’”, says the artist. His studio is home to his own printing press with a roller width of…
Manisinistre is a dynamic creative and printmaking studio dedicated to bringing people closer to the world of artistic printmaking. Founded in 2019 by Ilaria Lazzarotto and Vanessa Fantinati, two illustrators with degrees in graphic arts, the studio supports students, artists, and small brands in bringing their projects to life. Manisinistre…
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…