Blog - Meet the Maker

I am a painter and printmaker based in London. Describe your printmaking process. I am mainly a linocut printmaker. I enjoy the straightforward process of cutting and printing a piece of lino as there is very little complicated procedures as there are in older forms of printmaking such as etching and lithography for example. You … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Gail Brodholt"

I am John Bloor, part time print maker and part time graphic designer. The amount of time I get to spend on each depends entirely on whether I have work or not! Describe your printmaking process I always start by sketching in my book and at some point move onto the computer to develop the … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: John Bloor"

I’m a printmaker based in Edinburgh. I took up linocut as a hobby two years ago but it has grown arms and legs and is now my mini business. Describe your printmaking process. I mostly create architectural prints of the places I have lived in or visited. In a way it’s my diary! I work … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Maria Doyle"

Describe your printmaking process.  I do several things: I make etchings, where I concentrate on people’s expressions and the quality of the etched line and texture; I also make wood cuts, which are rather larger and where I exploit the areas of flat colour and the strong wood cut line; and in the past I … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Frans Wesselman"

My name is Amanda Colville. I’m a printmaker and artist from Kings Lynn in Norfolk. Describe your printmaking process. I mainly use linocut as a medium. However I also dabble in monoprint occasionally. How and where did you learn to print? I’ve always appreciated print and illustration, so decided to take a printmaking evening course … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Amanda Colville of Mangle Prints"

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"

I’m a block printer working mainly with lino blocks, my work is largely inspired by nature & normally grows from our wonderful environment here in Cornwall.   How and where did you learn to print? I studied Illustration originally & while I didn’t necessarily do print as a specific medium in that study it is … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Lou Tonkin"

Hello! I’m a printmaker living in Brighton. I came to printmaking relatively late as I trained and worked in the Health Service for 20 years before taking a break to do an Art Foundation which I enjoyed so much that I went on to do a Printmaking Degree and later an MA in Sequential Design … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Katrina Mayo of Dekko Press"

Hi, my names Kathy Hutton, I’m a printmaker working out of my home studio in Wiltshire where I live with my husband and 3 girls. In my work I combine many different printmaking techniques to produce my original one of a kind prints and I also run small group workshops teaching some of these techniques … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Kathy Hutton"

Hi, my name is Fran Wood and I’m a London based designer specialising in screen printing. I work from home, which is a small flat in central north London, where I live with my partner and son. I have worked in studios as both a graphic designer and textile designer, as well as working in … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Fran Wood"

Hello there! My name is Lucie Summers, I’m a printmaker and I live on a farm with my husband and two boys near Newmarket in Suffolk. I mainly design and print small panels of fabric for other crafters and makers to use in their work. I also create paper collages and make quilts for … Continue reading "Meet the Maker – Lucie Summers"

I am Sophie Mutter a printmaker living in Worthing. After graduating from a photography degree at Nottingham Trent University in 1997, I went on to have a successful career on the picture desk of OK! Magazine. I loved the celebrity world but was always drawn to the sea, and in 2013 finally took the plunge … Continue reading "Meet the Maker – We are Mountain"

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"

Tom Boulton will be teaching Letterpress in the Handprinted studio starting at the end of October! You may also have seen Tom in the Handprinted shop if you’ve popped in to say hello.  I’m a typographic designer who started buying letterpress machines and type about 10 years ago. I design and print artwork, stationery and … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Tom Boulton"

Hi I’m Scarlett Rebecca, a printmaker living in Brighton. I split myself between two creative lives; half the time I work from my studio as surface pattern designer using printmaking in my designs and the other half as a fine art printmaker and technical demonstrator at Brighton University.   Describe your printmaking process. I … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Scarlett Rebecca"

I’m a full time printmaker living in Bristol. Originally from London; I trained as a ceramicist at Bath Spa University and I completed an MA in Multi Disciplinary Printmaking at the University of the West of England in 2011. I predominantly work with Lino using the reduction method. I also teach Lino Printing and Block … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Kerry Day"

Sarah Campbell has been involved with colour and pattern for the whole of her life. Sarah will be joining us at Handprinted for a weekend of workshops in May 2018!  The first fifty years of her career were spent working alongside her sister Susan Collier, starting with working for Liberty of London Prints in the … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Sarah Campbell"

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"

Hello, I am John Coe, founder, publisher and designer of Pressing Matters magazine – a new printmaking publication that takes a look at the people, process and passion behind the art form. I approach the curation of the magazine from a ‘creatively curious’ standpoint and find myself getting arm deep trying out new printmaking techniques … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: John Coe from Pressing Matters Magazine"

Hello! My name is Jenny Sibthorp and I’m a textile designer based in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. I work predominantly with screen printed linen and leather, although some of my designs are now reproduced onto stationery and culinary ware too.   Describe your printmaking process.   Screen printing. All of my designs start … Continue reading "Meet the Maker: Jenny Sibthorp"