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…
Elica Sue is a block printer based on the west coast of the United States in Southern California. With no formal training in the visual arts, Elica is a self-taught printmaker who has learned from following other artists on social media. Her academic training is in linguistics (Bachelor’s and Master’s…
Wisconsin based, Jackie Sanders is a long time artist and photographer. She grew up around makers; her father is a woodworker and musician, and her mother would sew, draw, paint, crochet, and owned a kiln to fire ceramics. Jackie used to watch her grandpa in his workshop, and her grandma…
Based out of Portland, Oregon, US, Kate Crisanti started printmaking at the beginning of the 2020 lockdowns as a creative outlet outside of her existing art practice. She quickly fell in love with the process and it is now her main artistic medium. Alongside her block printing work, Kate also…
Payton Doerner is a self taught block printer from Rochester, NY. After completing a bachelors degree in American Sign Language, Payton now works full time at a school for the deaf, thus has no formal printmaking training. She created her small local business, Roc Block Prints, during the pandemic. Her…
Kent based print artist, Hannah Shepheard, has a love of printmaking going back nearly 20 years and spends her time creating art in her garden studio. Originally from Kent, Hannah studied at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where a love of printmaking took hold. The smells, sounds, processes and community…
Karen Waggoner’s daily art practice began back in January of 2021, and she quickly found that relief printmaking was the medium where she wanted to focus her energy. “The first time I saw what ink could do, how carving made me feel in the dead of winter, how an edition…
This month we’re proud to present a selection of block printers from our Official POP Community. Block printing is a relief process that involves printing onto a surface using a hand-cut or carved block. From salvaged lino to intricately carved wood blocks, our members use a variety of mediums to…
“Growing up in the American South filled with its cultural undercurrents of Racism and conservatism, the youngest son of a twice widowed mother, I needed a compass, a North Star, that spoke intuitively to who I was inside and what I wanted to be. I first found that in the…
Smrtna Rosa Prints was founded by Sabina; a self taught printmaker from Croatia, currently based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Their main medium of choice is linocut, although they also work with woodcut and digital illustration. Sabina’s works are mostly inspired by medieval illustrations, frescoes, the occult, religious iconography, tattoo art, and music.…
Working under the name Inkful Print Co, Louise McCabe’s print work focuses on place and the way we relate to our environment. She tells us; “I always want my work to be bold, playful and full of character as that is the kind of art I’m drawn to myself. Patterns,…
Based in Bristol, Becca Thorne is a printmaker and experienced illustrator specialising in Medieval history, natural history, and food. She has produced work for clients including BBC History Magazine, The Bumblebee Conservation Trust, The Folio Society, Thames & Hudson, Waitrose Food, and Yale University Press. Becca has recently returned to…
The latest release from West-Yorkshire based illustrator and printmaker Jake Blanchard is a new linocut print loosely based on the classic Todmorden story of Police officer Alan Godfrey’s encounter with a UFO. One of the most famous UFO sightings to have happened in the UK; the story has many twists…
The latest print release from Nadia Resta, an Italy-based linocut artist, is Backstabber. Nadia describes the print as a “celebration of disillusion”. She tells us; “In a society were everybody wants to appear always happy, brilliant, satisfied at any cost, I celebrate and cherish the sadness, the wounds, represented by…
Originally from Essex, Fiona Mary (Fee) has been living in Newcastle upon Tyne for just over year. Here, she creates relief prints, as well as working across a variety of mediums including animated videos for festivals, logos and social media posts for community organisations, and album covers for musicians. “A…
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…
Visual artist and printmaker Aric Russom grew up in New England, where there are towns full of old mills. While working on his graduate degree, he began looking at some of the local factory buildings. Aric states; “There is a subtle narrative in my work; I wonder what took place…
Born in Wellington, New Zealand, and now based in Sydney, Jessica Benhar is an illustrator, printmaker, and Design graduate of the University of New South Wales School of Art & Design. Initially wanting to become a graphic designer, it was in her last year of study after repetitive injury struck…
“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…
The latest linocut print from Italy-based printmaker Nadia Resta features Artemisia Gentileschi, an Italian painter born in 1593, on a vase filled with Japanese peonies. In Japanese culture peonies are bearer of good luck, and Nadia situates this imagery alongside a vase shape inspired by traditional Chinese pottery. This piece…