New Delhi-born designer and maker Deepesh Sangtani documents India’s hand-painted street signs, distils their letterforms and symbols into laser-engraved rubber stamps on modular wooden blocks, and uses them to create prints that embrace inconsistency, misalignment and the open-ended nature of play. Hand-painted signs in India have a distinct visual character,…
Graphic designer, illustrator and lino print artist Alice Pugini is relocating her Block & Branch studio from Amsterdam to Rome, marking ten years in professional design with a move back to the city that has always shaped her work. Alice Pugini has spent ten years in Amsterdam. Bikes and canals,…
Originally trained as an architect, London-based printmaker Chiara Mensa carves a series of five multiblock linocuts exploring the small physical gestures that define companionship between humans and rescue animals, printed in a limited edition of 30 on Somerset satin 250gsm. Trust between a person and a rescue animal is not…
Louisville-based printmaker Emily Ciecka creates her largest and most complex reduction print to date, a five-layer piece featuring a Killdeer protecting her chicks in a field of poppies, inspired by a friend’s story of watching over a nesting bird during a difficult time. A friend sent Emily Ciecka a photograph…
Quebec printmaker Sonia Landry, working as La Hache, creates a limited edition print inspired by wave patterns on the sand of the Côte-Nord coast, layering sheet music beneath fluid curves printed in a gradient from phthalo blue to fluorescent lime green. It was a walk along a beach on Quebec’s…
London-based printmaker Oceana Masterman-Smith transforms paper into tactile sculpture through blind embossing, hand-carving designs into lino and pressing them into relief to create prints that shift and change as light moves across their surface. Most prints are read through ink. Oceana Masterman-Smith’s prints are read through light. Blind embossing is…
Minneapolis printmaker Amanda Huber launches a grassroots block printing initiative from a spare bedroom during the ICE occupation, block printing on reclaimed apparel and raising over $32,500 for mutual aid across Minneapolis communities affected by ICE. The first print was a reclaimed sweatshirt that already said “PLANTS” across it. Amanda…
Denver-based lowbrow pop surrealist Blood & Gold reverses the production process, creating digital designs first and working backwards into linocut block prints to make something no machine reproduction could replicate: evidence of human hands. Blood & Gold builds his designs on an iPad first. Then, instead of sending them to…
Italian printmaker Elisa Bertocchi has built a practice around imaginary landscapes where women, animals and botanical life exist in quiet harmony, all hand-printed from linocut one layer at a time. Some introductions to a medium are gradual. Elisa Bertocchi’s was not. “I’ve always loved drawing, but when I discovered linocutting,…
Hong Kong-born, London-based illustrator and artist Lily Kong builds a world of fragmented landscapes across mono-printing, lino, riso and drawing, bringing them together in a handbound artist book made during residency at London Centre for Book Arts. The starting point was a need to slow down. Since 2023, Lily Kong…
Northern Israel-based printmaker Haviva Seligson carves and hand-prints a figure mid-breath in a wild landscape, making a linocut that treats the act of printing itself as inseparable from the meaning it carries. The shofar is one of the oldest ritual instruments in existence, its sound shaped entirely by the body…
In Precious Objects, Becky Long-Smith uses printmaking to question how value is assigned, preserved, and remembered over time. The work sits within an ongoing body of practice that examines material memory, labour, and care through slow, tactile processes, positioning print not only as an image, but as a record of…
A Year In Bloom is an A3 linoprint by East London based printmaker Bethany Clarke, created as a gift to the Birth Centre at Homerton Hospital. Donated in November 2025, the print was made as a gesture of thanks for the care and support Clarke received before, during, and after…
In Noi siamo qui, Italian printmaker and Verified POP Member Roberta Feoli De Lucia reimagines the drypoint plate not as a precious tool but as a site of shared authorship, erosion, and environmental witness. The work forms part of Pre Historia – Covo d’Artista, a collective project confronting the devastating…
Magdalena Szata’s recent work is rooted in return rather than reinvention for the sake of novelty. Instead of beginning from scratch, she has been revisiting her earlier linocut prints and transforming them into hand-cut collages, allowing existing works to evolve into something new. “I’ve been revisiting my old linocut prints…
With The Habitat Series, Bristol-based artist and printmaker Chiara Mensa creates a body of linocut prints that reveal the hidden structures of natural ecosystems. Designed and carved in 2024, the works use a distinctive split-view format that shows both surface and interior worlds in a single composition. From rainforest canopies…
In her linocut titled Celestial Dog, Lithuanian-born artist Kristina Vasiljeva turns to folklore as a source of both imagery and meaning. The print depicts a cosmic dog devouring the sun, a dramatic motif found in various mythological traditions. Set against a star-filled sky and framed with Baltic-inspired patterns, the piece…
When Susan Lefler stepped away from her corporate job to pursue printmaking full time, she needed to find a new rhythm. For years, her creative practice existed as a side-hobby, with small evening projects (cards for friends’ birthdays, small leaf studies captured after collecting autumn leaves) carved and printed after…
Italian printmaker and pop member, Enea Seregni, began his journey into the world of printmaking back in 2017. What started as a dive into linocut technique quickly turned into a personal and artistic research, particularly inspired by his deep love for cult horror, fantasy, and science fiction movies. From the…
For illustrator and printmaker Leila Mead, inspiration can come from the most unexpected places. Her latest screen print, a dreamy jungle scene alive with animals and plants, began with an object from her childhood, a well-worn pencil case from the 90s that once belonged to her sister. The result is…