Elizabeth Blackadder was born in Falkirk in 1931 and trained at the Edinburgh College of Art, where she was influenced by the work of Scottish Colourist , Joseph Crawhall. Elizabeth has always been an intrepid traveller and the influence of Japanese culture is clear in her work. She published her first prints in 1958 and since then she has worked in a variety of media, including lithography, etching, aquatint, drypoint and screenprint. Elizabeth Blackadder's signature subjects are landscapes, cats, flowers, still-lives and portraits which she characteristically arranges in a shallow pictorial space to create intriguing and subtly decorative images.
In 1982 Elizabeth Blackadder was appointed an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II and in 2003 promoted to Dame of the British Empire.
Elizabeth Blackadder's work is being exhibited courtesy of Glasgow Print Studio, a unique organisation with charitable status which exists to encourage and promote the art of printmaking in the West of Scotland. Founded in 1972, Glasgow Print Studio has grown in both reputation and size to offer world class facilities and a wide range of services to the public and artists alike. The studio is one of the largest publishers of original prints in the UK. Every year leading artists are invited to collaborate with the studio's master printmakers to produce original prints of the highest quality.
Contact Details: Glasgow Print Studio Tel: 0141 552 0704
Email: gallery@gpsart.co.uk Website:www.gpsart.co.uk

Stuart Duffin regularly lectures on his own work and Scottish printmaking to a wide range of arts groups. He regularly teaches specialist printmaking classes at the Glasgow Print Studio and at colleges and universities world wide. He has been a selector for many exhibitions and arts programs such as the National Print Open at the Mall in London, Glasgow City Council international exchange program and the Royal Scottish Academy.   He has work in many public and private collections including the BBC, Glasgow University, The Jerusalem Foundation, Kharkov Museum and in the USA, Canada, Japan, India, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the Middle East.
Stuart writes "In 1996 I was invited to work in Jerusalem at the Jerusalem Print Workshop for a month as part of an international artists exchange with the Glasgow Print Studio. Although Jerusalem is the closest that we can get to heaven of our own accord, nowhere more than in the Holy City did I experience the loss of paradise, or our separation from God in a more painfully obvious way. This is a loss or a searching that I believe remains deep within the make up of each one of us. All my work since then has been a result of the experiences, thoughts and memories of Jerusalem.
The work is, on one hand, a simple still life of familiar (to me) everyday objects. But on the other hand there is symbolism attached to them. It is a personal symbolism but not so personal that the viewer cannot enter in to it. The old maps and modern views of Jerusalem, central to the whole body of my work, represents the view that the welfare of Jerusalem is a barometer to our own spiritual welfare, not only as individuals but of society as a whole."

He is currently working primarily in mezzotint, etching and painting as the Studio Etcher at the Glasgow Print Studio.

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Email: info@stuartduffin.com    Website: www.stuartduffin.com

David Bowyer has been a member of Greenwich Printmakers since being elected in 1985. He is known principally as an etcher/intaglio printmaker, but at Printfest will also be showing progressive colour relief prints, a technique he has neglected since schooldays.
Established in 1979, the Greenwich Printmakers are a co-operative of forty independent artists based in South East London, working in their own studio spaces, combining to run a permanent gallery in the heart of historic Greenwich. Members are allotted administrative functions as well as staffing the gallery on a rota basis seven days a week, exhibitions changing five times a year, with each member regularly showcased in the Featured Artist area, again on a rota basis. GPA has also an enviable record of Outside Exhibitions, in such venues as the Barbican Art Gallery and the National Theatre.
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Using a stencil based monoprint technique I produce vibrantly coloured images. Subject matter includes fish, flowers, fruits, butterflies, button collections and happy childhood memories of playing in gardens and on the beach.
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Dol Rhedyn, Llanfair Rd, Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales LL15 1DA
Tel: 01824 703991 Mob: 07906 310021
Email: enquiries@ann-bridges.com Website: www.ann-bridges.com

For me printmaking is as much joyful experiment and discovery as it is a means of creating images. By combining painterly, calligraphic, photographic and collage elements, I attempt to project an impression of experience or imagination. My drawings and brush sketches often serve as the raw work from which I generate paper lithographs, monoprints, etchings/aquatints and lino-cuts. Occasionally, prints are further enhanced with embossing, pencil, colour wash or oil pastel.
I was born in Brazil and lived most of my life in The United States. Travel has provided me with a cache of inspiration. Every place and its people - the natural and built environment together - make a unique song: contours, patterns and textures of plants and animals; the quality of light and shadow playing on and around us; fluid gestures of wood-frame structures; the visual and tactile appeal of indigenous peoples' work. Sometimes the most ordinary things are the extraordinary. I try to reflect something of these rhythms and melodies in my images. The outcomes range from abstract graphic to impressionistic.
I now live in Cumbria where I work as a free-lance designer and illustrator. Printfest 2007 marks the first time my work will be exhibited in the UK.
Contact Details:  Tel: 01229 869033   Email: tmjanybrown@hotmail.com
Web: www.childrensillustrators.com/TaniaJanyBrown

Jane’s interest in photography came at the age of ten after a gift from her parents, of a Polaroid camera, “photography became fun and instant”. The subject became her surroundings, details of Nature. A self-taught artist she experiments not only in traditional photography but also embraces the modern digital process. Her work has been exhibited in many galleries in England and is represented commercially through international photo libraries. Jane's art shows an intuitive response to Nature, capturing the subject's physical and ethereal beauty.
Contact details: email: info@jane-annbutlerphotography.com
website: www.jane-annbutlerphotography.com
Tel: 01380 721328

The three artists who comprise "a.a.w. " met while studying Fine Art at the North Wales School of Art & Design in Wrexham.
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

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

Sarah Downer's work is predominatly about the drawn line. At the moment, she enjoys drawing animals, particularly zoo animals and dogs, which are then developed with small areas of colour whilst still letting the drawn line dominate. Sarah's work is produced as limited edition screen prints.
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I studied at Harrogate Art School and Newcastle University, where I specialised in screen printing and fabric design. I moved from London to the Lake District in 1974 and have been printing ever since.
I am also very interested in promoting art away from conventional gallery settings - hence Printfest etc.
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.  
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7, Mounts Meadow, Gleaston, Cumbria LA12 0RL   Tel: 01229 869503
Email: rfoster@nsworld.com

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: ruth@ruthgreendesign.com Website: www.ruthgreendesign.com

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.  
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281 Foxhill Road, Carlton, Nottingham, NG4 1PW Tel: 0115 987 6491 Mob: 0778 9076 892
Email: nicholakatie@hotmail.com Web:www.nicholahingley.co.uk

I am an illustrator. I have been for a long time but I am new to printmaking. My illustration degree was with Liverpool & an M.A. with Birmingham both back in the 70's. I've freelanced ever since apart from six years from '83 to '89 as staff illustrator with the BBC .
My illustration work involves concepts & commercial subjects drawn in scraperboard & coloured, sometimes very fine line & sometimes more of a wood cut look. I work with all the usual illustration markets - publishing, editorial, design & advertising. I like the line illustrators of the mid part of the last century when The Radio Times boasted the best exponents of ink, scraperboard & wood engraving.
Printfest has given me the opportunity to work with different materials & therefore have a significantly different experience. I shall be keeping an illustrative feel but in lino.
I live in Cardiff & am a regular visitor to Cumbria.
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Email: jerry.hoare@ntlworld.com Website:www.jerry-hoare.com

The three artists who comprise "a.a.w. " met while studying Fine Art at the North Wales School of Art & Design in Wrexham.

Allison John juggles Fine Art and Family in Cheshire:  her work is focussed on landscape, inspired by its' beauty, the deep contrasts and changing effects of the light.

Jasmine Jones is an artist working in Cumbria, she specializes in ceramics and textiles. She studied a degree in design crafts, which enabled her to combine, textiles, ceramics and print, most of her ceramic work is decorated by means of print. The work is both of a 2d and 3d nature, and includes surface decoration produced by mono-printing, screen printing and relief printing.

The three artists who comprise "a.a.w. " met while studying Fine Art at the North Wales School of Art & Design in Wrexham.
Wendy Carter le Fol has exchanged the maritime climate of Jersey for the hills outside Wrexham. In her work she seeks "to convey something metaphysical beyond the visible image; like an elusive memory half grasped."
Website:www.wendycarterlefol.co.uk

Debby has just finished a 3 month exhibition in Valencia and is currently exhibiting marine life etchings at 'The Deep' in Hull until October. In 2005 and 2006, she produced etchings for DEFRA as ministerial gifts for the EU. She iscontinuing to raise money for 'Project Seahorse', a conservation/education organisation through a permanent exhibition at London Zoo, and last year raised over £2,500, enough to provide a boat and engine for a year for seahorse conservation work in the Phillipines.
At the end of May, IDebby has a solo exhibition at the Higher Street Gallery in Dartmouth, entitled 'Fins, Feathers and Dancing Dragons'. Some of her work is now on sale at The Linnean Society in Picadilly. 2007 projects will include some seabirds and game.
Contact details Tel:07836 292 741 Website:www.debbymason.com
email. cattewaterpress@hotmail.com

Pauline Meade studied Graphic Arts and Printmaking at Leeds Metropolitan University. She works mainly from her home studio in Cumbria and has been printmaking for the last 14 years, exhibiting in galleries around Britain. Her work is mainly inspired by landscape and the natural environment, especially of the fells and flora of the North Pennines and Lake District. Starting from watercolour studies made on location, Pauline develops colourful multilayered monoprints and linoprints, and intense black and white etchings.  
Contact Details
Nab Barn, South Dykes, Penrith
Web: www.axisweb.org/artist/paulinemeade

Sue lives in Saddleworth and works from her studio in nearby Mossley.The printmaking is inspired by her sculpture which involves assemblage, and both consider the inherent history in a found object. "My work is concerned with the transformation of materials into artefacts that are both precious and mysterious." Working with a range of printmaking techniques allows Sue the freedom to explore the three dimensionality of her sculpture and she often uses objects included in her sculpture to print with. One of the printmaking techniques used is Chine Colle, a process whereby fine handmade papers are incorporated into the body of the print at the printing stage. This allows texture, layers   and other materials to become part of the print. Sue exhibits widely and has work in private and corporate collections
Contact Details
Tel: 01457 871601
Email: sueplatt_art@yahoo.co.uk

I live in Bramhall, Cheshire and studied Fine Arts Printmaking at Manchester Metropolitan University. I graduated in June 2005 with a First Class Honours Degree, and since then I work from home in my garden studio. I have just recently commenced basic printmaking workshops with children and hope that I can inspire them with my love of printmaking.
I enjoy experimenting with traditional printmaking processes to produce contemporary images, with colour, texture and shapes being of prime importance. I am extremely interested in images surroundimg me but particularly interested in fragmentation, deriving a great deal of inspiration from discarded objects, materials, rubbish, or anything that is considered to be defunct. I endeavour to capture the essence of these objects or surroundings, ensuring that they are no longer useless or unwanted and can now exist on purely visual terms.
Contact details: Tel: 0161 439 2043 Mob: 07986 635223
Website: www.janartpress.co.uk Email:mail@janartpress.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."
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Tel: 01363 776773. Website: www.simonripley.co.uk

Laurie Rudling, is a well established printmaker specialising in etching and collagraphs. He has exhibited at most of the major venues in the south of England including the Royal Academy Summer Exhib, National Print Show, Royal West of England Academy and events such as Art in Action and the Affordable Art Fair. He is a member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen and the Norwich 20 Group BUT he has never before shown anywhere in the north of England! This terrible ommission is down to oppotunity rather than interest as he has walked, run and more hills in the Lakes and North Pennines than he cares to remember, and found time to fill a few sketchbooks.
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I use autographic elements, fragments and objects from both ancient and archaic antiquity that I bring back from my travels. I create multilayered work whose style and meaning satisfy the viewer with a decorative appeal, but equally satisfy my own artistic impulses.

Contact Details  Website:www.alisonsaldana.info

Sally is a Painter, Printmaker and Architectural Glass engraver, she lives and works in London and France. She studied at Croydon College of Art and The Royal Academy Schools and has taught at Birmingham School of Art, Hornsey College of Art and Middlesex Polytechnic. Her work on glass engraving has appeared in several publications and she has exhibited both in the UK and in France.
Contact Details: The Cottage, Cambalt Road, Putney SW15 6EW
Tel: 020 8789 9588 Email: sallyscott.guy@btopenworld.com

Theresa was born in East Lancashire and .after studying art locally, she graduated in Fine Art in 1978, at Lancaster, with the University of Central Lancashire, which was then Preston Polytechnic. In the early 80’s she qualified as an Art Therapist and later trained as a Psychotherapist.. She has practiced as an artist for many years and over the past 8 years has focussed soley on printmaking.
Theresa has a printmaking studio at her home, south of Lancaster, but in the past was a member of the Printroom at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kenal. She is also an associate member of Green Door Studio’s Kendal, with whom she regularly exhibits.
Theresa has exhibited widely across Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumbria and the midlands. Theresa has also been selected as one of three artists to exhibit in this years ‘Spring Focus’, Howarth Art Gallery, Accrington, held in May- June.

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 artist's 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.   My work is often described by others as delicate and contemplative.   My circles symbolise my sense of wonder at the natural world and my place in it.
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: Yorkshire Artspace,Persistence Works, 21 Brown Street, Sheffield S1 2BS
Tel - 0114 268 5399 Mobile - 0794 1212194
E-mail - simbel@waitrose.com
Website: www.isobelwalker.co.uk

The subject of my work tends to be the modern rural landscape and coastline.   I might use an element or certain configuration as a starting point for a painting or print. I use a combination of drypoint, carborundum and sand to make delicate, textured collagraph plates in aluminium or card. The form is what is most important to me, content is secondary. It is the edges, the texture, the marks and the sensations they evoke that enthuse me. Although my paintings full of colour, my prints are monochromatic; using a dense velvet black ink. Interpretation and meaning are always subjective; if you see a symbolism in my work, it is your symbolism rather than mine. A print is an object for contemplation, a trigger to stimulate the mind. Something obscured or partially hidden is more interesting than something that is wholly obvious.

Ian Williams 2006

Contact Details: Ian Williams, Hafoty Lwyd, Llanrhaeadr, Denbighshire, LL16 4PH
Tel: 07900 497794 Website: www.ian-williams.co.uk
Email: ian@ian-williams.co.uk

Michelle Wood is a member of Northern Print in Newcastle and a graduate of Northumbria University. She makes etchings and handmade books.   Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, in Spain, Canada and New Zealand.

Marie lives in Cumbria and as a printmaker and papermaker is inspired by an abundance of archaeological finds, stone circles and parchmarks in the surrounding landscape. Using both screenprint and monoprint techniques, she produces richly coloured work based upon aerial landscapes of past settlements , or ancient artifacts. In contrast, her hand-made paper pieces create an elusive, fragile quality in her work reminiscent of fragments of decaying textiles that reflect the transient nature of such a past.
Contact details:
Tel 01229 869278    Website www.marie-wright.co.uk

Lee originally studied Textile Design Technology at Leicester De Montfort University. He then spent fifteen years in the photographic industry, working for the two major corporations, specialising in printing. At first working mainly in production and then later teaching printing techniques. He now works mainly out of his home studio in Leicestershire and has been back concentrating on designing and printmaking. His work is inspired by details and textures found in the natural environment. Taking studies on location, he then produces colourful, intense, sometimes optical, print designs. He likes to take naturally occurring details in shapes and textures and make them into something much bigger and more vivid.
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Tel: 01455 613716     Mob: 07775 627499      
Email: wyattphoto@aol.com                   Web: www.leewyatt.f9.co.uk