Stéphanie Catherine, aka StfacatPrints is a self-taught artist and linoleum engraver. The inspiration behind Stéphanie’s illustrations comes from dark and macabre iconography, and the culture surrounding black metal music. She takes further influence from Medieval Art, evoking legends of mythology from ancient gods, to the works of classical artists, ancient…
Play It Fuckin’ Loud is a brand new print responding to a brief about protest produced by Dave Darcy of Dublin-based letterpress print studio, One Strong Arm. The three colour print combines letterpress and linocut techniques, and is inspired by one of the most famous exchanges in Rock ‘n’ Roll…
Our new series meets the people behind some of the industry’s most inspiring work. This week, Mindy Schumacher – of Follysome Prints fame – shares some words of wisdom about her journey into the world of printmaking. My head is often enough in the clouds. My studies were in philosophy…
Christy Powell is the artist and aromatherapist behind Christy Art & Aroma, creating linocut prints and other handmade and hand-printed products including scented pillows and cushions. She was first introduced to printmaking whilst attaining her Fine Arts degree from Florida State University where she focused on Graphic Design. Twelve years…
Printmaker and illustrator Josephine Obert is the face behind Iosephine Prints. Josephine has always been interested in creative ways to express herself, be that drawing, painting, sewing, or photography, yet she never studied arts, and instead has a M.A. in Linguistics and Cultural Studies. Josephine started printmaking in 2018 after…
Céline Blanchard is a self-taught artist and linocut printmaker. Always a keen artist and experimenter, Céline tried out various techniques and enjoyed playing around with India Ink, acrylic paint, Posca and Promarkers, before one day watching a video online about linocut printmaking. She explains; “I fell in love with the…
Founder of Studio 37 Prints, Lauren Evans, is a relief printmaker who uses linoleum and occasionally watercolour to create her work. While she primarily focuses on creating larger pieces of art, Lauren also enjoys making functional pieces such as cards and home décor. Lauren studied Art and Psychology at Berry…
Amy Rose Hey is an illustrator and printmaker based in Kent, England. She specialises in oil painting, graphite pencil drawing and linocut printing and takes inspiration from her love of British wildlife, folklore, and women’s history. Whilst studying for a BA Hons in Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon College of…
Carys Bailey is a printmaker from Cape Town, South Africa. She creates original, limited edition linocut prints and monoprints, which are all handmade and hand pressed in her home studio. With two degrees in psychology, Carys uses her artworks to fund important initiatives in South Africa. So far her work…
Press Relief, aka Masy Chighizola, is a linocut artist born and based in Louisiana. When she was eight years old, she wrote in her school journal that she wanted to become an artist, and hasn’t let go of that dream since. The pursuit to find her true path in art…
Enea Seregni, aka EneArtworks, is a linocut artist living and working in Milan. His artworks draw inspiration from horror, fantasy, and science-fiction imagery. EneArtworks combines the printmaker’s passions in projects including fan-art, Gothic and macabre iconography, and nerdy culture. “Many of my childhood memories are of me with a pencil…
Moatzart, aka Alexandra Motiu, is Brighton-based printmaker with a background in both painting and printmaking. Influenced by Dadaism and Surrealism, her work is revelatory of internal struggles through the use of disturbing imagery, the grotesque and carnivalesque. Alexandra’s prints have been described as “very well contained madness“. Initially working with…
Having had a creative mind from a young age, Amy Louise Cundall has always thrived in an environment of visual language over academia. She studied Art and Design at the Hitchin Centre for the Arts, and this, along with other courses she has partaken in, ignited her passion for linocut…
Our new series meets the people behind some of the industry’s most inspiring work. This week, London-based printmaker Rachael Hibbs talks us through taking inspiration from Instagram, and her love of beautiful botanical things. I was always creative growing up. My family are very arty and my Auntie is also…
Stellabox is run by printmaker Haychley Webb. She is a self-taught linocut artist based in Norwich, Norfolk, East of England, where she has a little home studio. Taking inspiration from everything from nature, to witchcraft, history, and English folklore, her works can be quite unusual. With the Norfolk Broads and…
London-based printmaker Jazmine Joye creates limited edition, handmade and hand pressed linocut prints from her home studio. Her work is inspired by the female form, human hands, animals, and plants. Jazmine often creates sets of ‘mini prints’ that feature the same subject in a different design, such as her nude…
The Littlest Falcon is run by printmaker and painter Merlyn Griffiths. Based in her garden studio in North East England, Merlyn works in linocut and creates original prints and greetings cards. Her work mostly focuses on the depiction of animals, and she has produced prints of creatures great and small.…
Cat Howatson-Jones is the maker behind Linomouse Prints. With a background in design, Cat only started practising linocut printmaking at the end of last year. The self-taught printmaker has a degree in Graphic Design, and creates her lino prints alongside her full time job as a designer for digital products.…
Self-taught artist and printmaker, Mary Ann Testagrossa, lives in the Pacific Northwest in California. After moving to California from New York in her early twenties, Mary Ann started studying watercolour painting at a junior college close by, initiating her 20 year love affair with painting. Mary Ann displayed and sold…
After a couple of months of being swept up in the Artist Support Pledge, Shelly Brown found herself a bit burnt out. Thus, she went back to the drawing board, wanting to make something bold, but that still felt like something she would make; “new work, new direction, new attitude“.…