Vincent Jacquin, who works under the name of Small Studio, has been established as a freelance artist since 2007. Trained as a graphic designer, Vincent’s practice covers various fields from printmaking to mural painting, graphic design and illustration. He has a strong attachment to printmaking, but also develops a lot…
Damien Giudice, aka nicedamien, is a printmaker based in a small village in Luxembourg. Throughout his teenage years, Damien became increasingly interested in music and art, and finished high school specialising in art. He then went on to study Communication Design at the Hochschule Trier (Germany) where he discovered his…
Edinburgh-based Martha Duncan is an architecture graduate gone designer, printmaker, and illustrator. She started her small business designing art prints at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 as a way to return to her artistic routes. Eversince, Martha has focused on refining her printing techniques, started building ceramics, and…
As a young girl, born an raised in Friesland, Netherlands, there were two things Ineke de Vries loved in life: art and theatre. Encouraged by her mother, who found out about a new theatre study close to her home town, Ineke started studying theatre. “I loved every aspect of it:…
Katya Slobodskaia’s self-directed practice is a combination of “emotional/intuitive” design, mixing concepts of the graphic diary, art therapy, and visual poetry. “For me, this is the most natural way to process my emotions and feelings ‘on the tip of my fingers’, and reflect on everyday events,” says the designer. Currently,…
Pernille Sand first fell in love with reduction linoleum printmaking many years ago after some fantastic Havana artists in Cuba introduced her to the technique. The printmaker tells us; “I already knew how to do linoprints, but to do prints with more colours and with this complicated technique was new…
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…
Sofia Barton is a Multidisciplinary artist born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne who creates contemporary artworks influenced by nature and heritage. Her works are often comprised of bright colour palettes, heavily inspired by everything from her Punjabi culture to rich textiles, and architecture to vintage matchboxes. Influenced by everyday objects she creates pieces…
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…
In Lincolnshire, on a former WWII airfield, a once dairy farm, the corn is ripening. This is the home of botanical print maker and nature inspired metalsmith Su France, whose Victorian barn is her home studio – a place where bulls were once kept, potato pickers stayed, and tractors used…
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…
“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…
Dom Marshall graduated from Staffordshire University in the mid 90s with a degree in Surface Pattern Design and an MA in Ceramics, and went on to work in and around the world of ceramics and homewares. Always fascinated with screen printing, he commandeered the kitchen table during lockdown and has…
A graduate of The Glasgow School of Art, in 2019 Almudena Rocca moved back to her original home of beautiful Northumberland in order to focus on her art practice and build her creative business. Almudena’s mother is a stained glass artist, and during the pandemic she was able to rent…
California-based artist and designer Kevin Story Mintern creates things that are reminiscent of days gone by. Seeking to “breathe magic into the mundane” Kevin makes paper goods such as recipe cards, grocery lists, and calendars that are not only beautiful, but functional. Kevin has worked on a variety of commissions…
Thyme James holds an interdisciplinary practice based in expanded painting. She describes it as such as opposed to multi-disciplinary because the mediums are often not isolated, either being combined in the creation of the piece or stemming from conceptual ideas through the process of another medium. Thyme incorporates media including…
Australian-born and Bristol-based illustrator Anna Higgie has released a new series of works that combine the flat, abstract forms that she typically uses in her mural work, with human faces and portraiture. Typically, Anna uses a combination of traditional and digital techniques to create her illustrations, and paints large scale…
Alice Needham is a queer British illustrator currently based in Leeds, UK. Working freelance from her home studio as an illustrator and designer, Alice specialises in digital illustration, pattern design, and mural work. She has a wide range of experience, from creating work for largescale print, to working with fashion…