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  • Meet the Maker: Rachael Haggerty

    Meet the Maker: Rachael Haggerty

    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 . . .
  • 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: Ieuan Edwards

    Meet the Maker: Ieuan Edwards

    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. . . 
  • 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 Maker: Robin Mackenzie

    Meet the Maker: Robin Mackenzie

    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. . .
  • Meet the Maker: Cal Russell

    Meet the Maker: Cal Russell

    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. . .
  • 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: FamousAdolf

    Meet the Maker: FamousAdolf

    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. . . 
  • Meet the Maker: Moïra Swann

    Meet the Maker: Moïra Swann

    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. . .
  • Meet the Maker: Chris Long

    Meet the Maker: Chris Long

    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. . .
  • Meet the Maker: MintFlamingo

    Meet the Maker: MintFlamingo

    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. . .
  • Meet the Maker: Rosanna Reade

    Meet the Maker: Rosanna Reade

    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. . .

  • Meet the Maker: Madder Cutch & Co.

    Meet the Maker: Madder Cutch & Co.

    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. . .
  • Meet the Maker: Marigold Plunkett

    Meet the Maker: Marigold Plunkett

    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...
  • Meet the Maker: Thomas Mitchell

    Meet the Maker: Thomas Mitchell

    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 …
  • Meet the Maker: Salty’s Studio

    Meet the Maker: Salty’s Studio

    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 …
  • Meet the Maker: Maud of Fungus and Mold

    Meet the Maker: Maud of Fungus and Mold

    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 …
  • Meet the Maker: Shelly Brown

    Meet the Maker: Shelly Brown

    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 …