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Pressing Matters – Issue 7

posted by Robyn Pitts May 30, 2019

For their seventh fantastic issue, the independently-run Pressing Matters magazine has spoken to a fascinating mix of makers, all with very different ways of working but all sharing a big love for print. This issue focuses on the interesting topic of how an artist chooses to tell a story through print. You can find a series of tales in the tree ring prints by Nice Art People, stories in the ethereal cyanotypes of Craig Keenan and an animated fable of a journey into the afterlife (made using collagraph prints) by Marine Rivoal and Claire Sichez.

For a printmaker, finding inspiration for a print or series of work is often a daunting task, and knowing where to start can be a tricky thing. Issue 7 explores how these printmakers use shape, colour and texture with ink and paper to create something totally unique. Be it describing landscapes, imagined or real, like Nicholas Perra and Andy Lovell, or using found objects and paper cut scraps for abstract prints like Claire Willberg and Jonathan Lawes. Another epic journey features Jack Blake and Barbara Salvadori packing their panniers and cycling the paper road in search of papermakers, absorbing their unique knowledge and techniques and finding that although the tools and people may be different all over the world, they all share a love for the handmade. This issue is a real joy to see how people play with print!