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  • Meet the Maker: 2023 Round Up!

    Meet the Maker: 2023 Round Up!

    What a fantastic array of makers we've had featured on our Meet the Maker blog this year. We've put together a round up for you with all of the wonderful advice our makers have given for creatives at any stage of their cre. . .
  • Meet the Maker: Pia Bramley

    Meet the Maker: Pia Bramley

    I’m an artist, illustrator and printmaker. Having left London after a decade of city life I now live and work in The New Forest, squeezing in drawing and printing arou. . .
  • Meet the Maker: Jo Muriel

    Meet the Maker: Jo Muriel

    Describe your printmaking process. My prints are all one of a kind, mixed-media studies which combine gestural marks and mainly abstract shape formations. Sometimes, I include figurative elements, sometimes not. I’m mainly concerned with conveying instinctive reactions to natural references with freedom and movement, through colour. . .

  • Meet the Maker: Creatively Bridge

    Meet the Maker: Creatively Bridge

    Hello! I’m Bridget. I'm a part time printmaker based on the south coast in Chichester. My love for printmaking was born in the print rooms of Bath School of Art and Design where I studi. . .
  • Meet the Maker: Jenny McCabe

    Meet the Maker: Jenny McCabe

    I am printmaker based up north in Lancaster. I currently work mainly with intaglio printmaking methods, preferring metal plate etchings and card Collagraph constructed plates. I have been making printed items for many years including printed textiles and writing books about printing at . . .
  • Meet the Maker: Lucy Gell

    Meet the Maker: Lucy Gell

    Hi, I'm Lucy. I studied graphic design – illustration at Staffordshire university I began a career in animation. During my this fun and exciting time I was responsible for fabricating the Martians in the Tim Burt. . .
  • Meet the Maker: Anita Klein

    Meet the Maker: Anita Klein

    Hi, I am a painter and printmaker working in London and Italy. Describe your printmaking process. I use almost all printmaking processes and choose between techniques depending on the type of mark that suits the picture I want to make. At the moment I am mostly working in . . .

  • Meet the Makers 2022

    Meet the Makers 2022

    We've had some fantastic makers on our Meet the Maker blog this year and we absolutely love hearing the advice and words of encouragem. . .
  • Meet the Maker: Jeremy Williams

    Meet the Maker: Jeremy Williams

    I am a part-time weekend printmaker. During the week I like to spend my time packing and posting out printing supplies to printmakers around the country! My main printing love is li...

  • Meet the Maker: Susan Davies

    Meet the Maker: Susan Davies

    Hello, my name is Susan and I’m a printmaker/illustrator living in West Sussex with my Italian husband and little boy. I moved back to the UK 6 years ago after living abroad in Rome and Barcelona for 20 years. Describe your printmaking process. I work mainly in collagraph and intaglio. I also like to combine …
  • Meet the Maker: Sally Hirst

    Meet the Maker: Sally Hirst

    I am a painter and printmaker living in Norwich. My work is about journeys; those that I take and the journey that the artwork has been on in my studio. The textures, colours and structures of each environment dictate the development of my artwork which whilst predominately abstract are based on fleeting images, imagination and … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Sally Hirst"
  • Meet the Maker: Jamie Barnes

    Meet the Maker: Jamie Barnes

    We are very lucky to have Jamie Barnes in the studio teaching Aquatint Etching in April 2020! Join us for the weekend or weekday workshop and read on for more information about Jamie and his beautiful work. Describe your printmaking process. I make etchings about structures in the landscape and on the coast, so everything … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Jamie Barnes"
  • Meet the Maker: Sue England

    Meet the Maker: Sue England

    Describe your printmaking process. Ideas come first and they can come from anywhere! Landscape and the immediate natural environment is a constant source. I draw and refine and draw again. I collect colours from nature, from magazines, from other people’s work. I like to mess about with different print methods and don’t get to hung … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Sue England"
  • Meet the Maker: 2019

    Meet the Maker: 2019

    We have had a huge selection of amazing printmakers for year’s Meet the Maker feature. Take a look through our 2019 list to remind yourself of our makers and catch up of those you may have missed. Start 2020 with a dose of inspiration by reading through all the advice given out from all our … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: 2019"
  • Meet the Maker: Jane Dignum

    Meet the Maker: Jane Dignum

    My name is Jane Dignum and I am a printmaker living in York, North Yorkshire. Although I like to try out lots of printmaking techniques, I tend to focus on Linocut and I also make collages from pieces of my prints. The city of York and the county of Yorkshire are great sources of inspiration … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Jane Dignum"
  • Meet the Maker – Marian Haf

    Meet the Maker – Marian Haf

    I’m Marian and in short I’m a Mother of three, allotment neglecter and printmaker, I live in my native West Wales on the side of a hill in Ceredigion. I dabble with screen printing, wood cuts the odd bit of lino but collagraphs are my thing.    Describe your printmaking process. I’m a real night … Continue reading "Meet the Maker – Marian Haf"
  • Meet the Maker: Mariko

    Meet the Maker: Mariko

    Hello! My name’s Mariko and I’m an illustrator and printmaker. I grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in London, travelled around for a bit, and have just moved from California to Tokyo, although I do still travel all the time. I work on commercial illustration commissions such as cookbooks, window displays and packaging, … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Mariko"
  • Meet the Maker: 2017 Round Up!

    Meet the Maker: 2017 Round Up!

    If you’re not already a reader of our Meet the Maker blog series, you should grab a cup of tea and work your way through these fantastic interview posts. We talk to printmakers and dyers every couple of weeks to find out how they make their work, where they get their inspiration and what advice … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: 2017 Round Up!"
  • Meet the Maker: Cath Bristow

    Meet the Maker: Cath Bristow

    Hello, I am Cath Bristow, a Brighton based printmaker. I use my printmaking practice to work in community engagement and outreach, facilitating printmaking workshops across the South East with children, young people and adults within different community settings.   I have my own printmaking practice and my community printmaking practice and the two are inextricably … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Cath Bristow"
  • Meet the Maker: Hester Cox

    Meet the Maker: Hester Cox

    Hello! I’m full time printmaker specialising in collagraph although I do experiment with monotype, photo-polymer and relief print when the mood takes me! I live in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales National Park and I’m also a keen fell runner. … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Hester Cox"