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  • Meet the Maker: Martin Truefitt-Baker

    Meet the Maker: Martin Truefitt-Baker

    Martin Truefitt-Baker is a fine art printmaker and painter living in the Brecon Beacons national park, South Wales, UK. His linocuts use a reduction method, using a single piece of lino. This is progressively cutaway and overprinted onto paper several times, in a succession of tones, to build up the final image. The prints are …
  • Printing a Linocut with a Relief Printing Press

    Printing a Linocut with a Relief Printing Press

    Relief Printing Presses are a great option if you want to speed up your lino printing process. This one is available in A4 and square format. This type of press uses a platen to press down firmly to transfer ink from your block to the paper. Read on or scroll to the bottom to watch a …
  • Meet the Maker: Sarah Cemmick

    Meet the Maker: Sarah Cemmick

    I’m Sarah Cemmick, a linocut printmaker based in the Eden Valley in Cumbria. I have been printmaking for over twenty-five years (give or take a couple of children mid-way through) having graduated from the University of Sunderland with a degree in environ...
  • Staining Lino to See Your Carving More Easily

    Staining Lino to See Your Carving More Easily

    It can be tricky to see where you are carving when making a lino block, making it more easy to make mistakes. An easy solution to this problem is to stain the lino. That way, the colour of the lino on the surface is different to the inside, allowing cut marks to show easily. Read …