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  • Meet The Maker: Fei Fei

    Meet The Maker: Fei Fei

    I’m Fei, a printmaker and designer working in Beijing. I make cards, prints, and run workshops in the city. I have a day job as a brand designer, and I use my spare time to grow my printmaking...

  • Meet The Maker: Bethan Designs

    Meet The Maker: Bethan Designs

    Hi! I’m Beth (Bethan) a printmaker who found a love for linocut relief printing. I’m based in a little village in the middle of...

  • Meet the Maker: Angela Chalmers

    Meet the Maker: Angela Chalmers

    Hi, my name is Angela Chalmers. I am a visual artist living in North Yorkshire. I work with cameraless photography techniques and the cyanotype process...

  • Meet The Maker: Ian Phillips

    Meet The Maker: Ian Phillips

    Hi, I’m Ian Phillips, a printmaker based in Mid Wales. I’m originally from Leicestershire and studied illustration at Leicester Polytechnic. After graduation I attempted the life of a free lance Illustrator in London, but quite quickly...

  • Meet the Maker: Dave Buonaguidi

    Meet the Maker: Dave Buonaguidi

    Dave Buonaguidi, AKA Real Hackney Dave is Hackney-based artist who combines the visual and verbal language of advertising and propaganda with unique imagery and materials of found obje...
  • Kathryn Desforges: Meet The Maker

    Kathryn Desforges: Meet The Maker

    I'm Kathryn Desforges, a Devon-born, Yorkshire-based artist with a passion for printmaking, process, and material experimentation... 

  • Meet the Maker: Julia Triay

    Meet the Maker: Julia Triay

    Hi! I'm Julia Triay, I'm an illustrator and printmaker from Mallorca, Spain based in Norwich. I moved to Norwich 8 years ago to st...
  • Meet the Maker Round-Up 2024!

    Meet the Maker Round-Up 2024!

    It has been another incredible year of printmaking inspiration. We've put together a round-up of all our fantastic Meet the Maker artists from 2024, alongside their advice or inspiration for other printmakers. Read through for a wholesome dose of printmaking...

  • Meet the Maker: Keith A. Pettit

    Meet the Maker: Keith A. Pettit

    I am Keith A. Pettit an artist, printmaker and sculptor, born and bread in a small corner of Sussex. I left school and started work with a...
  • Meet the Maker: Courtney Arnold

    Meet the Maker: Courtney Arnold

    Hello! I’m Courtney, a printmaker specialising in linocut. I live in a little town on the edge of Dartmoor, nestled between moorland, farmland and the exquisite River Dart...
  • Meet the Maker: Matt Hooper

    Meet the Maker: Matt Hooper

    My name is Matt Hooper and I’m a relief printmaker working from my rather compact studio I built in the garden of my home in a town just outside Leeds. I’m a self taught artist and...

  • Meet the Maker: Rach Lloyd

    Meet the Maker: Rach Lloyd

    Hello, my name is Rach and I'm a printmaker from Shropshire. I go by the name Rach Lloyd Press, and pride myself on making all of my print-runs and editions in very small numbers...
  • Meet the Maker: Rachel Snowdon

    Meet the Maker: Rachel Snowdon

    Hello! I’m Rachel Snowdon of Rachel Snowdon Studio, a London-born relief printmaker and illustrator who has been based in West Devon since 2009. Having recently introduced more colour into my designs, multi-block lino printing is probably my favourite process as it allows me...
  • Meet the Maker: Gemma Berenguer (Monostereo)

    Meet the Maker: Gemma Berenguer (Monostereo)

    My name is Gemma Berenguer and I'm from Barcelona. I'm a printmaker specialising in screen printing, although I also dabble in etching and block printing as well...

  • Meet the Maker: Jessie de Salis

    Meet the Maker: Jessie de Salis

    I am Jessie de Salis. I run a screen printing textile business with my cousin, Alice. We print colourful patterned fabrics from a Somerset barn, a space we share with the sparrows and house-martins...
  • Meet The Maker: Jenny Stringer

    Meet The Maker: Jenny Stringer

    I am Jenny Stringer, and I have been block printing fabrics (and sometimes papers) for the last thirty years; as and when possible. I was an archaeological illustrator after a brief museum career, and worked with a team of archaeologists. Afterwards, I freelanced from home, specialising in...
  • Meet The Maker: Jenny O'Leary

    Meet The Maker: Jenny O'Leary

    Hi, my name is Jenny O’Leary and I am a textile artist and tutor living in Shropshire. I work with batik (hot wax resist), mainly on tissue paper - combining it with bleach, ink and dyes. I sometimes stitch to create beautiful surfaces and textures. Collage and layering are an important part of my work...

  • Meet The Maker: Fabiola Knowles

    Meet The Maker: Fabiola Knowles

    Originally from Sicily, I grew up in Australia; however, having settled in the UK in 1996, it has been my home for the largest part of my life. I love the outdoors and I am drawn to open landscapes with big sk...
  • Meet The Maker: Olesya Dzhurayeva

    Meet The Maker: Olesya Dzhurayeva

    I am Olesya Dzhurayeva, Ukrainian artist. I was born in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, but I moved to Ukraine as a child. Now I live in Kyiv. Despite the war, I am staying in Ukraine and continue to work. I am an active member of the international printmaking community, participant and winner of...

  • Meet The Maker: Fiona Black

    Meet The Maker: Fiona Black

    My name is Fiona Black and I am an artist, folk musician, writer, history geek and lover of stories. Home for me is the Highland village of Evanton, just north of Inverness on the shore of the Cromarty Firth. I am happy to have returned to live and create in the Highlands, and I am constantly inspired by ...