ANGIE LEWIN - PRINTMAKER OF THE YEAR 2008

Norfolk based printmaker Angie Lewin studied BA (Hons) Fine Art Printmaking at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design between 1983 and 1986, followed by a year's part-time postgraduate printmaking at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. She has worked in a range of printmaking techniques including lithography, silkscreen and etching. More recently she has concentrated on lino, woodcut and wood engraving. Angie is also well known for her textile designs and a range of greetings cards, based on her prints, which are stocked throughout the UK.

Contact Details:
Website:www.angielewin.co.uk
Email: angie@angielewin.co.uk

Simon Ripley makes unique monoprints on handmade Japanese papers. He works from a studio in Devon. His work makes a strong colour statement. "The shapes, marks and forms in the work are like signs which I hope will trigger memories or other connections. These signs are in conversation with each other. They are like Japanese Haiku poems - epigrammatic, visual poems giving a wide breadth of possible interpretation."
Contact Details:
Tel: 01363 776773. Website: www.simonripley.co.uk

Contact Details:
Tel: 07753 256 257
Email: jimpanzee2@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.jimpanzee.co.uk

David T. Bowyer has been a life long printmaker, known principally for his limited edition colour etchings, but more recently returning to investigations into relief work using progressive cutting techniques.

He shows widely across the UK, particularly with the Greenwich Printmakers and South Bank Printmakers; he acts as Treasurer for both co-operatives.

His work is mainly landscape based, derived from visits around England and Wales; having grown up in Birmingham he finds an exotic appeal in the coastline and the progress of water to the sea. His printmaking has always been complemented by other studies on paper in oils, watercolour and drawing media, creating parallel, mutually supporting bodies of work.
Contact Details:
Tel: 020 8853 3962
Email: bowyerdvt@aol.com

Working from sketch book studies and direct observation I create vibrantly coloured images using a stencil based printmaking technique.Layers of inks are applied directly to the picture surface using small hand held rollers, allowing each layer to dry before adding the next. By wiping off areas that are not quite dry and removing the ink, hidden colours are revealed and the richness of the image is gradually built up.

Contact Details
Dol Rhedyn, Llanfair Rd, Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales LL15 1DA
Tel: 01824 703991 Mob: 07906 310021
Email: abridges@gotadsl.co.uk Website: www.ann-bridges.com

Co-founder of Printfest, Ronkey Bullard has stood down from the leading role on the Committee to be able to present some of her own work this year.

Contact details:
Email: ronkey.bullard@btinternet.com

Henrietta draws her inspiration from the land. She photographs the simple land markings found in fields -plough lines, ridge and furrow, worn animal tracks and scaring from burnt earth, and from these develops a language of abstracted landscape shapes.
She uses Collograph, Monoprint and more recently Carborundum on metal to create her imagery.
Many of her works are made to look immediate but are infact worked on and over printed several times.
Contact Details:
Email: hc@henriettacorbett.com
Website:www.henriettacorbett.com

Alison Craig lives at the top of a 1-in-3 hill in North Wales:   waking every morning to a view across the valley, she bases her work on observational drawing but tries to convey the sensations of the moment and the place rather than its' physical reality.
Contact Details:  Email:adcraig@doctors.org.uk

I etch on copper plates using the techniques of hardground etching,aquatint and sugarlift. I add colour, with a roller or add collage. The overlappng of wiped colours produces tones or tints. Experience of life and beautiful moments are fed into my work in gardens, the sun shining through arches, mountains and trees and reflections of colour, all inspire etchings, monoprints and paintings. My work is in small editions of 7 . Artists proof [A/P] differ in colour.
Recent Exhibitions : Abbot Hall Coffee Shop /07 Brewery Arts Centre /07 Brantwood Coniston /06.

Contact Details:
Email: mail@bcropper.co.uk
Website: www.artinthecity.co.uk

Drawing is the most important part of my work, by using screen printing it gives me the opportunity to create images directly from my sketches.

It is these original lines I manipulate within my prints.

Working with layers of colour I build up the print by masking off areas of the screen or the image to create more shapes . Sometimes using paper stencils, drawn wax on material or recycled paper. The sea, trees, signs and aerials have all been themes. I usually produce a small amount of prints no more than 7 in a series. Each one is slightly different. Combining drawing and print making as much as I can. Producing images which are a collage of different elements.

Contact details:
Email: tara.dean@virgin.net

Jan Dingle is an established printmaker who took up printmaking, - especially etching - whilst living in Kent in the late seventies. She went on to develop subtleties in aquatint which make her work very recognizable. Specializing in watery and landscape subjects, her etchings portray not only the ever changes face of the Norfolk Broads an area she has sought to catch the essence of over many years, but also other waterways. Jan originally studied Graphic Design at Hornsey College of Art and printmaking is her passion. She works from home which is now the Norfolk Broads. This is Jan’s first visit to the Lake District.

Contact details:
Email:etchings@jandingle.co.uk
Website:www.jandingle.co.uk

Susan's work is inspired by the fells and high mountains of Cumbria, Scotland, Alpine Europe and most recently, the Sikkim Himalaya. It speaks directly to a fundamental human need to connect with wild places. As well as etching and screenprinting techniques, Susan often uses monoprinting, an exciting and creative process with which she produces striking imagery, capturing the different moods of the mountains and fells. Her atmospheric prints draw you into mountain landscapes, evoking memories of ever changing weather and light, and familiar feelings of place.Susan works from her studio near Hexham, Northumberland. She is also a member of Northern Print Studio in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Contact details: 2 The Courtyard, Ochrelands, Hexham NE46 1SB
Mobile: 07780 608048 Website: www.susandobson.co.uk
Email :info@susandobson.co.uk

Jo-Anna Duncalf's ceramic boxes, are concerned with the gender differences, the many different attributes that contribute to the subtle differences between men and women.
The Mercedes Benz box is based on a prize winning piece commissioned by Mercedes Benz.

Contact details:
Email : joduncalf@tiscali.co.uk

Judy Evans uses hand made paper and imprinting in one process, incorporating textile dyes for colour.
She also screen and mono prints on cotton.
Contact details: Judy Evans, The Lawns, Witherslack, Grange over Sands, Cumbria LA11 6SD
Tel: 015395 52333 Email:judyevansdesigns@hotmail.com

Richard grew up within a stones throw of Hadrian's Wall and Lanercost Priory and these two ancient monuments instilled in him a passion for the past. He also developed a love of the countryside around him and in particular for the trees that are so much a part of the north Cumbrian landscape.
Richard trained as an Art Historian at Manchester University and now lives by Morecambe Bay but works amongst the Lake District fells.
Richard's work is inspired by the printmakers of the early twentieth century, including Ralph Middleton Todd, Claire Leighton and Charles Tunnicliffe and he is still fascinated by Cumbrian landscape.  

Richard was the winner of the Fenton Arts Prize, at the Originals’08 Exhibition, the Mall Gallery, London in February this year.
Contact Details
7, Mounts Meadow, Gleaston, Cumbria LA12 0RL   Tel: 01229 869503
Website: www.richardfosteretchings.co.uk
Email: info@richardfosteretchings.co.uk

I studied Graphics and Illustration at Wimbledon School of Art and worked in design and publishing for many years in and around London. We moved to Cumbria in 2002 where the wild, rugged landscape inspired me to experiment with a variety of printmaking techniques. Since moving south in 2006 I have continued to work with this exciting medium, and enjoy the challenge of capturing the many moods of the English Landscape.

Contact Details:
Email: Carolyn.Gilsenan@googlemail.com
Website: www.carolyngilsenan.co.uk

Ruth's background is in textile design having studied printed textiles at John Moore's University, Liverpool, and then Birmingham U.C.E. She set up a studio in 1995, to produce greetings cards, textiles and surface design for freelance projects. In 2003, Ruth received a grant from the Arts Council, to develop a folio of prints and new paintings. At this point she bought her first press and began to experiment with drypoint etching. Now working as both a freelance designer and artist the prints depict stylised plants and flowers, with some abstract compositions. Influences include mid-century art and design, especially Scandinavian ceramics and decorative art and an interest in gardening.
Contact Details Ruth Green Design
Tel:0121 4447098
Email: ruthgreendesign@hotmail.com Website: www.ruthgreendesign.com

Born Carlisle 1940. I studied at Carlisle College of Art 1956 -61 Painting N.D.D. From there I gained entry to the R.A. Schools graduating Dip R.A.S, 1961 -64. Awarded an Abbey Minor Scholarship in Painting 1966.

Trained and practised as a painter, I have since 1981 concentrated on relief printmaking as the medium where I could best explore my interest in chromatic colour, in multiples. Particularly I find interesting the restrictions of the reduction method of making prints. I have moved on from making large lino prints using the reduction method, to engraving small endgrain wood blocks and find enormous interest in the necessary forward planning of area and colour - quantity balanced colour.
Relief printing has limitations therefore no lost opportunity can be afforded, including considerable thought to the outside edge. I find drawing opportunities to be most acute in minimal work.

Contact Details
Email: Raymondhiggs-p-o-row@demon.co.uk Website: www.Raymondhiggs.co.uk

A Nottingham based artist. Specialising in Print Making. Travelling to new environments sparks off new and exciting ideas for my work. The dynamic shapes, vibrant colours and natural forms that appear within a landscape inspire me. I recapture the sense of space depth and atmosphere and interpret it in my own unique style. I do not try to reproduce what I see in front of me in a photographic way, however I use nature as a starting point.
I like the idea that a print can be almost a dream world where the viewer can be transported. I like to feel I am producing a starting point, and it's the viewer who can then impose ideas and interpret the print to remind them of places they have experienced. I feel using the screen-printing process provides this as well as individuality and experimentation giving each print a unique look and personality. Due to the techniques I use to create my work, each piece cannot be reproduced. Therefore, although each piece is derived from the same initial idea, each piece is unique and completely individual.  
Contact Details
281 Foxhill Road, Carlton, Nottingham, NG4 1PW Tel: 0115 987 6491 Mob: 0778 9076 892
Email: nicholakatie@hotmail.com Website:www.nicholahingley.co.uk

John is a printmaker specialising in figurative colour linoprints. These are usually interpretations of photographs or drawings which he cuts or etches as linoprint designs. He uses an 1840 'Albion' platen press to hand-print his limited editions by the 'reduction-block' method. This means that only one edition of each image can ever be produced.

Contact Details
Email: jjalbion@supanet.com

Catherine Kleeli
Catherine Kleeli BA(First Class Hons) Fine Art
Lives in Bolton, Lancashire.
Catherine's professional practice encompasses both painting and printmaking, the latter which she achieves as a member of the Hot Bed Press in Salford, the largest open access print workshop in the north west. Her print practice combines a range of processes such as collography, solvent transfer, etching and mono-printing; each print producing a one-off original more akin to the painted medium than the limited edition often associated with print.
Catherine aims to produce multi-layered prints that are not only visually pleasing but also enigmatic and ethereal. She has exhibited throughout the region and was selecetd for inclusion in
the most recent Wrexham Print International.

Contact Details:
Telephone - 01204 845532
Email - ck@catherinekleeli.co.uk
Website - www.catherinekleeli.co.uk

Tracy gained a B.A(Hons) degree in Fine Art in 1986 and is a painter and printmaker now working full time from her studio in Arnside, South Lakeland. She has also regularly taught printmaking in college for the past 10 years.

The inspiration and the subject matter for her work is primarily the landscape around her. She works in a variety of media including monoprint and linoprint with original and experimental techniques. Due to the techniques used to create her work each piece is individual and unique. Tracy regularly exhibits in Lancashire, Cumbria and Yorkshire and was selected as a prize-winner for this years Cumbria Open in Penrith.

To arrange a visit to her studio or contact for further information please Email tlevine@preston.ac.uk.

Andy Lovell was born in east London. He studied at Liverpool School of Art and Design (1983-86) where he specialised in illustration and printmaking. He has had numerous commissions for newspapers, magazines and books.
He has regular exhibitions of his prints (mainly monotypes and silkscreen prints), which have become the main focus of his work.
Drawing and painting from life form the starting point for his images which are then honed, simplified and transformed through print.

Contact details:Website:www.andylovell.com
Email. andy@lovelly.com

'I'm constantly excited by life as a printmaker and intrigued and fascinated by the various creatures that I draw which lead me to a wonderful process of creating an image on a copper plate.' In 2007 Debby had a 3 month exhibition in Valencia and exhibited marine life etchings at 'The Deep' in Hull . In 2005 and 2006, she produced etchings for DEFRA as ministerial gifts for the EU.

Contact details Tel:07836 292 741 Website:www.debbymason.com
Email. cattewaterpress@hotmail.com

Pauline works from her home studio in Cumbria and has been printmaking since graduating from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1994 where she studied graphic arts and printmaking. Her work is inspired by the landscape and natural environment, especially of the fells and flora of the North Pennines and Lake District. Starting from watercolour studies made on location in all weathers and seasons, Pauline develops colourful multilayered monoprints and linoprints and intense black and white etchings.

Contact details: Nab Barn, South Dykes, Great Salkeld, Penrith

www.axisweb.org/artist/paulinemeade

p.meade@lineone.net

Stephanie studied Printmaking at Gray's School of Art, graduating in
1995 and is now a member of Edinburgh Printmakers. She combines vivid
colours, texture and flowing line to produce delicate collagraph prints, using
handmade papers to add depth and complement the organic shapes that
inspire her.

Contact Details:
Tel: 07968 501 846
Email: steph@stephaniemitchellart.co.uk
Website: www.stephaniemitchellart.co.uk

Jacqueline was born in 1954 and works as an artist and
psychotherapist. Her work describes archetypal symbols and ancient sacred marks on the
landscape and contains symbols that frequent her dreams.She has a degree in Art and Design from Sunderland University (1990) and is a member of Northern Print.

She works largely in monoprint, all of her prints are one off pieces.

Her work is sold in galleries throughout the north east and she has
undertaken commissions for work in specific settings.

Contact Details:
Email:quinnjacqueline@aol.com

Hugh trained at Canterbury College of Art as a graphic designer. Relief printmaking was his craft subject at college, particularly linocutting. After many years as a commercial designer, creative director and illustrator in London he bought a restored Columbian press, circa 1830. Having moved to
Kent he now spends much of his time producing linocuts and woodcuts alongside his graphic and illustration work. He features his linocuts in some of his design projects particularly in packaging and display work. His subject matter can be images of animals and birds or people and places seen when travelling. He has an obsession with line and a stylised graphic treatment much influenced by ethnic art and a reverence to the likes of Edward Bawden and Eric Gill. When cutting a lino block he will always look for linear patterns to be contrasted with solid areas of black.

Exhibitions include - The National Theatre, National Print Exhibition, Society of Wood Engravers, Society of Wildlife Artists, Affordable Art Fair London, Brighton Art Fair and PrintFest.

Contact Details: Email: ribbans@ribbans.demon.co.uk 
Website: www.hughribbans.com

Laurie Rudling makes collagraphs and etchings of landscapes and built environments; some quite imaginary! The collagraph blocks, built up from card, textiles, glue and DIY materials print vigorous, deeply embossed almost sculptural prints in small experimentally inked editions. The images are often of mysterious townscapes and political ideas. The etchings are more often of landscape and human influence upon the “old places” of settlement and hearth. The etchings are usually two plate works using aquatint, open bite and drypoint making colourful but atmospheric pieces.

Laurie is a member of Devon Guild of Craftsmen and Norwich 20 Group and also exhibits at events around the country; this year as well as Printfest they include Art in Action, Oxfordshire, Norwich Printfair, Salthouse '08, and various galleries, the closest of which is Bellwood and Wright in Lancaster.

Contact Details
Website:  www.laurierudling.co.uk
Email: laurierudling@googlemail.com

Alison Saldana studied printmaking at Liverpool John Moore's University has exhibited in various
locations throughout the U.K. After many years living abroad in Greece and Spain she has returned to
her native Yorkshire to teach Art & Technology and to practise her own art work." My travels abroad have provided me with an unceasing source of inspiration. I am always on the lookout for imagery, the texture of crumbling architecture or the hieroglyphic figures on an archaic vessel. The tracery of olive leaves or the colour of pomegranates permeate my work. My preferred method of printmaking
is anything with which I can achieve a more painterly technique. Colour, texture and atmosphere are the abiding elements. What I am trying to achieve is a contemporary feel in each piece yet also an evocative link with the past."

Contact Details 
Email: alisonprinterpainter@yahoo.co.uk
Website:www.alisonsaldana.co.uk

Louise Stebbing is an experienced artist/printmaker.
1983 BA(hons) Fine Art Degree at Sheffield
1985 Postgraduate course in Printmaking at Camberwell School of Art in London.
Louise works mainly in etching, linoprinting and screenprinting.
Imagery is based on surroundings and exotic places visited .

She has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and has won prizes for her prints
1999 won the “Best Print in the Show” at the Eastern Open in Kings Lynn
2005 won the title of “Artist of the Fens” at an exhibition in Spalding.
In 2006 Louise was included in the new edition of “Dictionary of Artists in Britain Since 1945” by David Buckman.
Contact Details 
Email: louise@skylarkstudios.co.uk
Website: www.skylarkstudios.co.uk

In 1997, Glenn Tomkinson retired after over 30 years working in Education.   For 13 years he lived in Cumbria where he took up printmaking and exhibited in local Galleries including a one man show at Abbot Hall in Kendal.   After moving to Dover, he continued to make prints and after retirement he began to exhibit again, in particular, with the "Image" group of printmakers based in Whitstable.

He returned to live in Cumbria in 2003 and has exhibited at The Brewery in Kendal, Upfront, the Village Bakery Gallery in Melmerby, the Gincase and the Painted Penguin in Caldbeck. He had an individual show at Greystones Gallery at Glenridding at Easter 2005, had work accepted for the Cumbrian Artists Exhibition at Upfront in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.   In 2006 and 2007 he had individual exhibitions, "A Printmaker's Impressions" and "Further Impressions" at the Theatre by the Lake in Keswick and his work has also been included in the Landmarks III exhibition and the Christmas exhibition at Melmerby.   He is a member of the steering group for Art in Eden.

His work is mainly aquatints combined with etching but recently he has been experimenting with Collographs and Carborundum Prints.   He produces small editions of up to 20.   For each print, the plate or block is inked by hand, so no two are identical.   It is the limitations and difficulties of printmaking which allow him to find the essential elements in the image.   Most of his work is rooted in landscape but can also find inspiration in buildings.   His work acknowledges the influence of his youthful exploration of the abstract in art while retaining a response to the visual stimulus of the world around us.

Contact Details:
Email: glenn@martinmill.freeserve.co.uk
Website: http://glennprint.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk

I graduated in Fine Art (Printmaking) from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2003, and now work from my studio in Yorkshire Artspace, an award-winning complex of artists' studios, in Sheffield.

I love the circle for the contradiction of the simplicity of its form, and the complexity of the associated ideas, of which the most meaningful for me are: enclosure, infinity, a window, a pathway, wholeness, universal symbol, the self, and the essence of nature.

I work mostly with etching and embossing, and each plate I make means something different to me.   I often use the same plate again and again in different combinations with others, thus making each piece a unique, original work.

Contact Details
Email:info@isobelwalker.co.uk
Website:www.isobelwalker.co.uk

A keen interest in natural history provides the inspiration and subjects for wood engravings, linocuts and watercolours .The work is exhibited locally and nationally:-The Lake Artists Society, The Witherslack Group and The Society of Wood Engravers. bwhite@madasafish.com

Contact Details
Email: bwhite@madasafish.com

The Regional Print Centre is a joint partnership between Yale College of Wrexham and the Arts Council of Wales. Since 2002 we have been offering open access facilities to printmakers across Wales and beyond. The work on show at Printfest is a selection of work by our members.

Wrexham is a town located in the historic borderlands between Wales and England. Within a couple of hours you can travel through rolling countryside, into the mountains of Snowdonia and down to the beautiful coast. We are also not far from the historic cities of Chester and Shrewsbury, and beyond, Liverpool and Manchester are international centres of creative and cultural life. We offer a regular programme of opportunities at the centre including our Professional Printmaking Programme, a range of courses and workshops led by national and international printmakers and a summer school.

For more information please call the Regional Print Centre on +44(0)1978 311794 ext 2286 or contact us via email printcentre@yale-wrexham.ac.uk You can join our mailing list and receive a regular e-bulletin outlining printmaking related events and activities, exhibitions and other opportunities.

Contact Details
Email:sjh@yale-wrexham.ac.uk
Website:www.globalprintstudios.org