Linocut printmaker Davey Podmore recently teamed up with The Cobdown Sauna Club to help raise money to save and restore the much-loved established. The Cobdown Sauna Club’s story began in 1947 when C.D. Sheldon, chairman of the Albert E. Reed Co. paper mill, met Juuso Walden, director of the Finnish…
Not long after Gerry Coles started her printmaking career, she attended a reduction printing workshop where her tutor mentioned that her work had been exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. This led to an ongoing pursuit of getting into the show, which has seen Gerry go through many ups…
Our Journey Together is a project created by Emily Hancock, a linocut printmaker based in West Yorkshire, UK. It celebrates the journey of a woman as she enters into Motherhood and celebrates the magic of the Earth with her daughter. The series comprises of 4 mini prints (all measuring 14.5cm…
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…
Kymopoleia is a freelance Designer based in France. During her free time she creates lino prints that draw inspiration from Traditional and Japanese tattoos, and her love for fauna and flora. The artist first fell in love with linocutting in art school, and continues to develop this technique outside of…
Like many of his generation, Enea Seregni grew up collecting and playing trading card games. As an artist, illustrating cards has always been one of his dreams. This wish has now become a reality as last year he was asked to participate in one of the most interesting and challenging…
Reduction printing is a form of image making that involves working repeatedly into the same block in order to layer up colour. The block is gradually carved away, as each colour is added one by one, usually working from light to dark. Below, we check out some incredible reduction print…
MegaLilyDesign is Alexandra Owen; a linocut printmaker from Hove, UK. Alexandra creates original, hand-printed works, ranging from tiny open edition prints and complex reduction prints, to limited edition larger prints, all of which are based upon nature and nurture. She is predominantly self-taught artist, and has previously worked as Stage…
Natulavisual is Natalia Alamo, a Buenos Aires-based visual artist and self-taught engraver. Passionate about art since childhood, Natalia has always been exploring different visual art techniques. As a child she would draw with pencils and markers, and during her adolescence she developed into experimenting with acrylics and watercolours. She discovered…
Federico Blu di Prussia’s Ex Libris collection is an ongoing series of custom rubber stamps created for various visual identities. Over the years, private clients, independent bookstores, and small sustainable companies have asked the printmaker to create rubber and linoleum blocks with monograms and images of some of the most…
RH Prints is Ruth Hudson; an experimental printmaker and painter producing bold and graphic reduction prints that reflect both current trends and her own thoughts. Ruth studied Combined Arts at Newcastle University, which comprised of English Literature, Fine Art, and History of Art. In her spare time, she also studied…
Nightwave Prints is a one-woman block printing operation based in South East Michigan. Sepi Shokri is the master printmaker behind the enterprise, predominantly producing prints onto fabric including thrifted clothing, totes, and bandanas. Having originally started out printing on paper (prints, notebooks, and cards), now 95% of Sepi’s print output…
Artist, educator, and printmaker Charlotte Tyne creates enchanting linocuts from her home studio in Torquay, Devon. Her work is inspired by her love of the outdoors, walking, and her connection to her hometown, a place which she describes as “of strage dichotomies, of beautiful views and ugly lives, of palm…
With a background in psychology, writing, and graphic design, Diana Rosinus has spent the bulk of her career working as a creative on printed retail products, including books, magazines, greeting cards, stationery, gift bags, and more. She specialised in building files for print production, digitally drawing glitter plates, foil plates,…
Stoffdoktor is Regina D’Alfonso, a former doctor turned artist. She re-discovered linocut by pure coincidence, as she tells us; “I had subscribed to a mystery art supply box during the first lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic. I carved and printed a humpback whale and liked the technique which…
Creating art has always been an important part of Mairi Hedderwick Lawther’s life. Today, her focus is on the creation of lino prints inspired by her love of architecture, travel, and human experiences. Primarily, she works in black and white, enjoying the contrast and the clean lines a lino print…
Originally from the UK, but now based in Bergen, Norway, David Rees is a linocut printmaker whose work explores his background in science. Working across ecology, wildlife biology, evolutionary biology, and marine biodiversity has allowed David to experience so many amazing places from deserts, to rainforests, and the Arctic. “I’m…
Vasilii Maslov, also known as Butttercut, was born and raised in Russia, but after the start of the war, has moved, and has since lived in several countries. He is a graphic designer and engraver with a deep fascination for medieval architecture and art, which has led him to the…
Working from Barcelona, Natalia Ros is an illustrator and printmaker who lives for the motto, Print Is Not Dead. Her work focuses on blockprinting, with an emphasis on its handprinted nature. She has discovered that one of her favourite processes is printing on textiles with linoleum. After a long period…
The latest print release from ArtySwami, aka Daisy HP, is a tribute to her family’s tenure as cornershop Bossmen(and women). Daisy’s grandparents came to England 50 years ago this year, and have worked in many places, but a lot of her family are known to have worked in the Cornershops…