Working from her little attic studio in Cheshire with an exquisite cast-iron etching press, Francis Allwood is a printmaker who concentrates on intaglio and monotype printmaking processes, handprinting beautiful drypoints, mezzotints, and monotypes that are always inspired by her life-long love of animals and nature. Francis first fell in love…
London gallery, Elizabeth Xi Bauer, are presenting Phantom Dance; an exhibition of new works by Theodore Ereira-Guyer and Thiago Barbalho. Though the artists are friends and nourish an intellectual exchange for many years, it is the first time that their works will be exhibited together. For the show, which will take…
Chloe Barnes is a printmaker and artist currently residing in Bristol, UK. During her MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking at the University West of England, she specialised in monoprinting, a process which combined her love of painting and drawing. Chloe’s monotypes are inspired by found photography, stories, and her experiences of…
Robyn Maclennan is an artist and printmaker who uses multiple printmaking and photography processes to explore the landscape and our connections to it. Robyn works as a print technician at Leicester Print Workshop, and is also currently a PhD candidate at London College of Communication. Her research revolves around how…
Proof of Anxiety is a new publication from Montreal-based printmaker Chantell Juanita. She tells us; “My anxiety can be so overpowering it tends to take over my life. I wanted to make this project to try and showcase how sometimes anxiety makes you just want to hide from the world.”…
So, what is a collagraph print and how does nature-inspired printmaker Su France create her pebble prints? Su’s designs are not sliced up rocks (as once asked by a customer at a fair), but collographs created to celebrate elements of nature. Collagraph helps Su to accurately emulate natural textures and…
Aalok Trivedi is a partially self-taught artist and printmaker from Frederick, MD. After receiving his degree in Design at The University of Maryland, College Park, Aalok went on to have a career as a UX/UI Designer for mobile and web apps in DC and New York City. His love and…
Linocut and collograph printmaker Jo Boddy is taking part in an exhibition with her printmaking group, Print at the Park. The exhibition is taking place at the Royal Berks Hospital, Reading, and runs from Monday 4th July to Saturday 27th August 2022. The group met whilst using the print studio…
Neve Clarke is a visual fine artist currently based in Cornwall, UK. Since graduating from Falmouth University in 2021 with a First Class Hons degree in Fine Art, Neve has continued to develop her contemporary print practice. Working in a contemporary art gallery in St Ives alongside working as a…
“Since a young age I have been making up stories in my head and illustrating them,” Caen-based illustrator Joanna Calderwood tells us. Knowing she wanted to pursue a career in art, she went on to study Graphic Design in Besançon for three years, where she specialised in book and printmaking…
Valter Černeka, aka Studio MOT, is a sculptor by education and an anthropologist by nature. His most recent project is a print series made in the 35x25cm format. By always using the same matrix format, Valter combines multiple matrices on the same paper. Although he did study printmaking, after finishing…
Once again, we’re proud to present a selection of incredible projects by our membership community. This month, we’re showcasing some outstanding portrait-based prints created by our Official Members, innovatively created using a range of printmaking techniques. Check out the portraits below: Pierre XZXZ: Waves Waves is a turning point in…
Living in a rural town in East Ayrshire, Collette Howie is a self-taught artist and printmaker working with linocut and drypoint printmaking. Currently, she shares a studio space in Glasgow in a magnificent old school building in Dornoch street. Here, Collette has access to a huge Gunning etching press and…
Sarah Lee, also known as Ayeen, is a screen print and copper plate etching artist creating prints inspired by all things botanical and natural. Sarah worked as a graphic designer in corporate businesses for over 10 years whilst making art on the side. In 2021, she finally decided to pursue…
This month we’re proud to showcase a selection of landscape print projects from the talented members of our community. From linocut prints inspired by hometowns, to scenes of animals in their natural habitats, our members have used a variety of printmaking techniques to inventively present landscapes from the world over.…
Before starting her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, Cecilia Maran knew very little about the world of printmaking: “I couldn’t have made a better discovery than this. Since I started, I realised that I would have liked to leave a particular mark on the matrices, which…
Jo Boddy studied a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at West Dean College of Art and Conservation between 2018-2021. It was here that she discovered printmaking, and has been hooked ever since. Today, her work draws inspiration from the natural world, particularly the surrounds of her home on the…
Luke Holcombe is a graphic artist and printmaker based in Bath, creating prints and paper goods inspired by nature, travel, and adventure. Luke grew up near Oxford and moved to Bath in 2004 to study Architecture, which he practised up until a couple of years ago. “I’ve always had a…
Christopher Pearson, a MA Graduate in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, is an East London-based contemporary artist working between printmaking and sculpture. His work covers techniques including monoprint, collagraph, carborundum, viscosity, etching, and chine-collé, with a concept that concerns alchemy and transformation, time and rhythm, materiality and performativity, and…
Anna Wingfield is an artist making impressionistic inkwiped monotypes. She explores a range of printmaking techniques, pulling aspects from etching, monoprinting, and the painterly style of monotypes. By fusing traditional printing approaches with her own exploratory method, Anna utilises a specific gesture when applying ink to the copper plate, which…