Sophie Amelia is a textile designer for home interior products and accessories, going into her third and final year as a student on the Textile Design course at Leeds Arts University. Sophie is a process-led designer-maker and her practice centres around screen printing. This summer she decided to launch her textile…
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…
Dungarees + Squeegees (D+S) create limited edition screen-printed T-shirts using water-based inks and organic T-shirts. Many of the designs are illustrated by the studio’s co-founder, Joey, who has an evident love of plants. She finds her inspiration through her vast collection of indoor plants; her favourites being the monsteras due…
The latest release from Bristol-based illustrator Anna Higgie is Constellation, a series of 3 giclee prints inspired by the birth of her daughter. She tells us; “I had a vision of her bedroom, and of her looking up at this artwork as a triptych on the wall, and of her…
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…
Aunt Joy is a new online gallery founded by Amy Gardner, exhibiting a carefully curated collection of exciting contemporary art, by incredibly talented women. Aunt Joy was created to make buying art by women easier for art lovers everywhere. They pride themselves on making art accessible and approachable, helping buyers…
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…
Luxury luggage brand, RIMOWA, recently comissioned Athens-based graphic designer Filippos Fragkogiannis to design four postage stamps which would form a collection dedicated to the city where the company was founded; Cologne, Germany. Filippos was inspired by reviewing the prosperous corporate archive, which includes unique advertising content, artistic, and photographic material.…
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…
Applications for the 2022 London Illustration Fair (LIF) are now open! LIF are looking for bright, young budding illustrators, artists and creatives to help them come back with a bang for this year’s event, taking place from 1/12 to 5/12 2022. After two missed years they are returning to London’s…
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…
Having graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2019, Julia Syrzistie has since worked as a freelance designer in the fields of book and publication design. Thus far she has collaborated with charities such as Mafwa Theatre in Leeds, and Survivor’s Arts Community in Glasgow, designing and illustrating publications as…
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.…
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…
Davina Schluttenhofer is a graphic designer, illustrator, and letterpress printer based in Kent. The Hofer studio was established in the Autumn of 2018. Founded by Davina, Hofer translates from German as ‘farm house’, and Schlutte ‘the valley’ – handy given that Davina and her family are nestled at the edge of…