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Artists
Here are the details of artists who are exhibiting at Printfest 2009.
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Katsunori Hamanishi
Katsunori Hamanishi was born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1949. He is one of the world's leading mezzotint artists – a printmaking technique noted for achieving wonderfully subtle lighting effects but also one of the most exacting and time consuming printing processes. Hamanishi delights in the smallest details of nature and traditional daily life – a window, stalks and grains of rice, the corner of a garden.
Hamanishi has won numerous awards, including the Ibiza International Print Biennial and the Valparaiso International Exhibition in Chile. His work has been exhibited in Philadelphia, Tokyo, Belgium, Kyoto, San Francisco and Paris and is in the permanent collections at The Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, The Library of Congress and The Krakow National Museum.
Contact Details: Website: www.k-hama24.com
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Raymond Higgs –Voted Printmakers’ Printmaker 2008
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: Website: www.raymondhiggs.co.uk | Email: raymondhiggs@p-o-row.demon.co.uk
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Jim Anderson
Jim Anderson is a multi-media artist based in London, where he divides his time and energies between printmaking, mosaic-making, teaching, writing, and occasional so-called music. His work encompasses many different media and ideas; but use of found, unusual, or recycled materials is always paramount, and his work is steeped in the surreal and the satirical.
Jim’s prints can be seen at The Bankside Gallery, London; at Byard Art in Cambridge; and at the Off-Centre Gallery, Bristol. His public mosaics can be seen at various locations around London and Cambridge, and in unexpected places in Spain, Greece, Kenya, and the USA.
Contact Details: Tel: 07753 256257 | Website: www.jimpanzee.co.uk | Email: jimpanzee@yahoo.co.uk
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David Bowyer
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.
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
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Ann Bridges
Working from observation and sketch book studies Ann creates one-off images (usually referred to as monoprints) using a stencil and offset printmaking process.
Layers of inks are applied directly to the picture surface, using hand rollers. By wiping off areas that are not quite dry (using stencils) hidden colours are revealed and the richness of the image is gradually built up.
Contact Details: Tel: 01824 703991 | Website: www.ann-bridges.com | Email: abridges@gotadsl.co.uk
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Henrietta Corbett
The landscapes of West Cornwall and South West Ireland are the inspiration for Henrietta’s recent imagery. Documenting man-made and natural patterns found on the surface of the land is something she works towards.
She tries to document the familiar shapes and lines made by; plough lines, animal tracks, footpaths, stone walls and field boundaries. The single tree amid the huge expanse of sown field, the famous undulations of ‘ridge and furrow’ both inspire her circle shapes and linea marks.
Contact Details: Website: www.henriettacorbett.com | Email: hc@henrietttacorbett.com
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Susan Dobson
Susan’s work reflects the strong affinity she feels with remote and wild places - from Cumbria to the Himalaya. The drawings and paintings she makes in the landscape are the raw materials for the work she makes later in the studio or print workshop. Her images convey the moods and feelings of being in and observing the landscape in all weathers and seasons. Their strong sense of place strikes a chord particularly with those who have been there themselves!
Susan works from her studio near Hexham and is a member of Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Contact Details: Tel: 07780 608048 | Website: www.susandobson.co.uk | Email: info@susandobson.co.uk
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Judy Evans
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: Tel: 01539 552333 | Email: judyevansdesign@hotmail.co.uk
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Richard Foster
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.
Contact Details: Tel: 01229 869503 | Website: www.richardfosteretchings.co.uk | Email: info@richardfosteretchings.co.uk
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Ruth Green
Ruth’s paintings are mostly oil on paper or canvas. She uses a technique where the paint is rolled out onto a smooth surface then transferred to the painting, similar to monoprint. Each layer is dried then built up to create translucent colours which reveal other tones beneath.
Compositions come from all manner of sources, from pebbles found on a beach, to 1970s wallpaper. You never know when something will appear and volunteer itself as an idea!
Contact Details: Tel: 0121 444 7098 | Website: www.ruthgreendesign.com | Email: ruthgreendesign@hotmail.com
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Angela Harding
Born in 1960 in Stoke-on-Trent I studies Fine Art printmaking and painting at Leicester Polytechnic and then an MA in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. Since qualifying I have combined exhibiting my work with part –time Lecturing. I have also completed a number of commissions including illustrations for Lords international Cricket tickets and P &O Cruise Liner ‘Arcadia’
The recurring inspiration for my work is the flora and fauna of the British countryside. My studio, looks out over the Rutland landscape; the view is of sheep fields and English farmland which are often represented in my work. The soft green, greys and blues of this landscape are a backdrop used in my prints and paintings. The work is not a literal portrait but attempt to capture a distinct mood and atmosphere. My work has an allegorical aspect that has reference to British painting of the 30’s, 40,s and 50,s, and the work of artist such as Eric Ravillious, David Jones and Winifred Nicolson
Contact Details: Tel: 01572 737784 | Website: www.angelaharding.co.uk | Email: harding11@btinternet.com
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John Heywood
John Heywood is interested in the romantic or magical in everyday scenes. He studied art at Lancaster before graduating with a B.A. Hons degree and moving to Edinburgh in 1979. The city offers ample opportunity for drawing on romantic vistas and athmospheric streets and closes.
Contact Details: Website: www.edinburghetchings.com | Email: john@johnhaywood.com
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Nichola Hingley
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: Tel: 07789 076892 | Website: www.nicholahingley.co.uk | Email: nicholakatie@hotmail.com
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Jennie Ing
Jennie studied fine art specialising in printmaking at Croydon College and Wimbledon School of Art. Three years ago she set up her own studio space at home after buying a Victorian printing press. She now produces mainly linocut prints, using this press, in colour by the reduction method, and in simple black and white.
Her work is influenced largely by the urban environment, with the familiar and the way space is taken up, and an interest in architecture. Although brought up in Scotland she has lived near London for the past 20 years and this has been an influence on much of work.
Contact Details: Tel: 020 8941 2069 | Website: www.jennieingart.co.uk | Email: jennieing@yahoo.co.uk
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John Jones
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: Tel: 01723 870759 | Website: www.printmakingonline.co.uk | Email: jjalbion@supanet.com
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Sarah Kirby
Sarah has been making prints for over 20 years. She lives in a city but takes frequent solace and inspiration in her garden, her allotment and the special world it creates around her.
Growing up in Cambridge, she has also always had a passion for architecture and the buildings that we live amongst which also forms an important element of her output.
She often works in series and her work has a narrative and illustrative vein.
Contact Details: Tel: 0116 253 6141 | Email: sarah@sarahkirby.co.uk
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Catherine Kleeli
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.
Contact Details: Tel: 01204 845532 | Website: www.catherinekleeli.co.uk | Email: ck@catherinekleeli.co.uk
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Marion Kuit
Having taught art in secondary schools in Newcastle, Merseyside and Northumberland, I needed to pursue my own practice. Since then I have continued as a printmaker focusing on photo etching, wood and lino cuts, with relief prints being produced on a 19th century Columbian press.
Contact Details: Tel: 01539 723641 | Email: cmkuit@hotmail.com
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Tracy Levine
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 Cumbria, Lancashire, and further a field. She was selected as a prize-winner for 2008 Cumbria Open in Penrith.
Contact Details: Website: www.tracylevine.co.uk | Email: tracylevine@hotmail.co.uk
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Andrew Lovell
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@andylovell.com
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Christopher McHugh
My work explores the concept of preserving lived experiences in material form, as ‘living fossils’. The objects of everyday life– train tickets, fish at market – are transformed into modern day relics.
I originally trained as an archaeologist and I am interested in the material traces people leave of their passing through time and space. Something as seemingly mundane as the stain left by a coffee cup on a table, or the stamp made on a train ticket as one passes through the station gates, are as much material records of life as the fossilized footsteps of early humans in African mud, or the remains of a prehistoric settlement. These traces, or ‘fossils’, all have a unique story to tell and a continually developing life of their own. My works tend to begin as collages that blend everyday imagery and ephemera, exploring this no-man’s land where the present becomes the past and the historical record is made. I hope that my ‘fossils’ are imbued with a sense of life, as much as with the passing of something.
Contact Details: Tel: 0191 413 1349 | Website: www.ginkofineart.com | Email: cmchugh@ginkofineart.com
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Ian McNicol
An early career in architecture and a fascination with the built form has influenced the majority of my artistic output. Initially the approach has been purely representational, producing images of buildings within their urban environment or individually observed, detached and depicted as a unique form in itself.
Spending a number of years in professional practice has influenced my approach as an artist. There has always been a tendency towards traditional skills, particularly drawing and draughtsmanship based on observations. Meticulous attention to detail within the overall composition is an integral part of the process. Most of the works are essentially a stab at addressing the nature of architecture. Appreciating the beauty of proportion and detail and considering how time affects the built form.
Contact Details: Tel: 01292 266449 | mobile: 07877387247 | Email: ianandleona@hotmail.com
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Julia Manning
After 9 years living in Paris I returned to Somerset and set up my studio and home in Keinton Mandeville Somerset.
From portraits to trompe l’oeil, murals and painted late medieval style tapestries, commissions have come from all over the world. For the past 10 years I have worked solely as an Artist/Printmaker, indulging my passion for etching and relief, limited edition original prints.
Contact Details: Website: www.juliamanning.co.uk | Email: julia@juliamanning.co.uk
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Debby Mason
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: Website: www.debbymason.com | Email: catterwaterpress@hotmail.com
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Pauline Meade
Pauline Meade studied Graphic Arts at Leeds Metropolitan University where she specialised in printmaking. She has continued to develop her artwork using various printmaking techniques, mostly favouring linoprint and etching. She has taught part-time in adult and further education and leads occasional workshops for adults and children. She now lives and works from her home studio in Cumbria. Further information and examples of her work can be seen on the axis website.
My work is mainly inspired by landscape and the natural environment, especially of the fells and flora of the north Pennines and Lake District. During 2008, I challenged myself to produce a print for every month on the theme of ‘A year in the garden’, which is now complete. A recent painting visit to Nepal is providing great inspiration for a new series of work. I start from watercolour studies made directly from the subject and develop prints from these in my studio. The linoprints are made using several layers of transparent oil based colours which gradually build up the final image.
Contact Details: Website: www.axisweb.org/artist/paulinemeade | Email: p.meade@lineone.net
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Stephanie Mitchell
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: 017968 501 846 | Website: www.stephaniemitchellart.co.uk | Email: steph@stephaniemitchellart.co.uk
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Jane Mowat
Jane Mowat studied Art History at the Courtauld Instute in London. This was an opportunity to study from the great Museums and Galleries of the Western world – one that she has carried with her since. She discovered her own methods for carving and printing, believing that being self –taught in this area allowed her a freedom and self expression that she might have found difficult if taught conventionally.
For the last 20 years she has lived in Somerset where she lectures part time and exhibits regularly in solo and group shows. She has also shown in the National Print exhibitions at the Mall Galleries in London, as well as the Royal Academies of Art in Bristol and London.
Contact Details: Tel: 01398 361454 | Website: www.janemowat.co.uk | Email: janemowat@eclipse.co.uk
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Colin Park
For a painting to read intelligently, it needs an endless sub-divided number of disciplines, from the psychological communion between the painter and the viewer, to a technically assured style and a hard-headed determination, tempered with sensitive integrity.
The ethos of my aesthetics is direct accessibility. Art like all fundamentals should retain its unique value through being accessed from within.
My influences are Malevich, Rothko and Bacon.
Contact Details: Tel: 01556 650457 | Website: www.colinpark.com | Email: colinpark@kpdurham.fslife.co.uk
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Jo Quinn
Jo has worked as a freelance illustrator and printmaker since graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University, where she studied Fine Art. Her drypoint and chine collé prints are inspired by interiors and the aesthetics of everyday objects – from a still-life on a window sill to the eclectic contents of a drawer. She incorporates fragments of collaged papers into the prints, from old stamps to vintage paper bags, to create an interesting textured background and a sense of history to each picture.
Contact Details: Email: Joquinn30@hotmail.com
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Regional Print Centre
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.
Contact Details: Tel: 01978 31794 xtn 2286 | Email: printcentre@yale-wrexham.ac.uk
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Hugh Ribbans
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: Website: www.hughribbans.com
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Alison Saldana
I find printmaking to be an exciting art form, one in which the process is as rewarding as the end result. My most recent work consists of monotypes of images from the Mediterranean, Greece and from Southern Spain
Journeys have taken me to many countries and diverse cultures, rewarding me with incredible experiences. The Mediterranean is my inspiration, and I am continually seeing potential prints in my travels and in everyday life - the quality of the light through a window, or the rhythm of shapes and shadows in the landscape. I have a highly visual memory, and images from the past can inspire a print long after the event.
People have asked me how I relate to my work and after much thought I guess I would say that it represents: inquiry, observation and reflection. I begin with a sketch and later transpose my image to graphic form. Graphic techniques that I generally use remain the same time-honoured ones I learnt at Liverpool University in the eighties: Lino-cut, Monotype, screenprinting and etching.
Contact Details: Tel: 01484 609145 | Website: www.alisonsaldana.info | Email: alisonprinterpainter@yahoo.co.uk
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Theresa Taylor
Over the past 10 years Theresa has focussed soley on printmaking as a medium, recently preferring to use collagraph and monoprint as techniques due to their immediacy and versatility.
Having previously been a member of The Brewery Arts Centre Printroom, Kendal, Cumbria,she has her own studio at her home on the edge of the Forest of Bowland, Near Lancaster.
Theresa’s work is concerned with the life force in plants and often captures an atmosphere as if something has or is about to happen. Her parallel career in psychotherapy shows its presence in her work in a spontaneous and expressive quality, which the experimental technique of collagraphy facilitates. Using the imagery and atmosphere as a metaphor for something more personal and intimate, she conveys a mood, an experience or emotional state as an undercurrent.
Contact Details: Tel: 01254 791352 | Website: www.artinthecity.co.uk | Email: taylor.stokes@btinternet.com
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Glenn Tomkinson
In 1997 Glenn Tomkinson retired after over 30 years working in eucation. 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 widely within the county.
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: Tel: 01254 791352 | Website: www.printgarden.co.uk | Email: kandg@printgarden.co.uk
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Isobel Walker
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 am interested in the tension between boundary and boundlessness, where the sphere of the earth meets the sky. Also, the horizon seems to represent the concept of the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present and future. For me, these lines seem to represent time.
My circles and lines symbolise my sense of wonder at the natural world, and my place in it.
I work mostly with etching, monotype and embossing. Each piece is a unique, original work.
Contact Details: Tel: 0114 268 5399 | Website: www.isobelwalker.co.uk | Email: info@isobelwalker.co.uk
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Frans Wesselman
Growing up in Holland, I was aware early on of the etchings of 17th and 19th century artists and I soon slipped into the etching studio on entering art college. Though I paint and make stained glass as well now, etching remains my first love. The raised etched line and the play of black and white, the endless range of greys and textures, remain a fascinating challenge.
My work usually has a narrative theme, sometimes inspired by texts, sometimes by my own experiences or by things that just enter my head.
Contact Details: Tel: 01694 723544 | Website: www.fwstainedglass.com | Email: frans@wesselman.freeserve.co.uk