Blog - Meet the Maker
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Hello, I’m Rachael and I am a printmaker based in Bath, UK. I generally work with linocut and mainly print in monochrome or bright primary colours. My work celebrates family life, nature and the . . .
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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. . .
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I’m a linocut printmaker and illustrator based in Broadstairs on the Isle of Thanet in Kent, which is home to a good few other lino folks and a thriving. . .
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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 . . .
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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. . .
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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 . . .
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I am Robin Mackenzie, a Wood Engraver and Lino Cutter based in Dorset. I create limited edition relief prints using a combination of hand printing and an Albion printing press. My work explores the British coast and. . .
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I'm an artist living in Edinburgh working mainly in papercutting and linocut printmaking. I studied Illustration at Falmouth school of art and did a Masters in Contemporary Art at the Edinburgh College of. . .
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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. . .
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My name is Adolf, like the famous one. I was born in Barcelona 37 years ago and I spent my childhood watching TV and eating lots of bread and chocolate. When I got older I got a degree in Advertising and Public. . .
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Bonjour everyone! Moïra Swann is an English and Proustian adaptation from my real name Anne-Marie: while Anne-Marie lives in France and works full-time in a wonderful museum dedicated to the French painter Anne-L. . .
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My name is Chris and I am an artist, printmaker, composer and teacher. I studied fine art and music at the University of Liverpool, a Masters in musical composition at Newcastle University and I completed my PhD at the Royal. . .
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Hi - I’m Alex! I’m a freelance graphic designer by day, and a self taught linocut print maker by night. Although my day job is ‘creative’ I think I really fell in love with making/designing my own linocut prints as it allo. . .
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I am a printmaker and illustrator from Northern Ireland, living and working in Edinburgh. I studied History of Art at University but have reverted back to creating art rather than talking or writing about it! As a self-taught printmaker, there is. . .
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We are screen printers. We presume everyone knows that this is pushing ink through a mesh, which has a pattern on it, using a squeegee. In our case, the screen and squeegee are quite big! We print linen by the. . .
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I’m a figurative artist, working mainly in intaglio printmaking and painting. I graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, with an MA in Printmaking in 2020. I have an etching in the Ingram Collection and was awarded the Pegasus Art Prize at the Bath Society of Artists sum...
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DHi, my name is Tom Mitchell, and I am a printmaker in my spare time, based in Dorset. I specialise in multi-block linocuts of mostly architectural, and urban themes although I’ve also produced a few fun animal prints. How and where did you learn to print? I learnt the basics of lino cutting at school …
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We are Sandra and Jim Salter and we live with our family above the Salty’s Studio shop in Ashburton, Devon. We moved here three years ago, looking for a home with studio space, but then we saw this shop with a house attached and thought let’s give a workshop/shop a go. We saw other makers/shops …
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Describe your printmaking process. I design and print fabric, mainly linens and hemp fabrics. I use wooden blocks which I carve using a CNC router. I love the heaviness of old Indian wooden blocks which you can load a thick layer of ink onto, I wanted to create my own versions of these. I first …
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I’m Shelly Brown – an illustrator and printmaker based in lovely Ely, Cambridgeshire. I mainly create lino prints with a focus on people, and connection. Describe your printmaking process. My process changes every single day. I still haven’t worked out a magic formula for getting things perfect, and tend to go with the flow. It’s …