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Trevor Price (Printmaker Of The Year)
Trevor Price specialises in drypoints and etchings that are handmade and hand printed from studios in St.Ives and London.
The artworks by Trevor usually represent the intimacy between a couple, sometimes romantic, sometimes erotic and often humorous. Artistic influences include Picasso, Freda Kahlo, Ben Nicholson and Cecil Collins. Location can also be a big influence in the work, and his Cornish roots often feature.
www.trevorprice.co.uk | trevor@trevorprice.co.uk | 020 7232 1916
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Henrietta Corbett (Printmakers' Printmaker 2010)
Henrietta studied Sculpture and Print at Wolverhampton Polytechnic where she was taught by the Artist Anish Kapoor. She has an MA in Art Education from Brighton University and has taught courses in Print at De'Montfort University Leicester and at Cill Rialaig Print Centre Co. Kerry. She has recently recently won the George Pickard Award for 'inovative works' from The Leicester Society of Artists (2010)
www.henriettacorbett.com | hc@henriettacorbett.com | 0116 239 5363
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Mike Allison
I am an experienced contemporary fine artist. I completed a degree in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art and later studied at De Montfort University to complete an MA. I have worked in various media but more recently the medium of print has proved a very successful vehicle for presenting my curious associations and metaphoric alliances. I am a member of the Birmingham Printmakers.
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Jim Anderson
Jim Anderson is a multi-media artist based in London, where he divides his time between printmaking, painting, mosaic-making, teaching, and writing. His work encompasses many different media and ideas; but use of unusual, or recycled materials is paramount, and his work is steeped in the surreal and the satirical.
He exhibits internationally, and his prints have won four prizes in national exhibitions - most recently in 2007’s Small Print Big Impression show in Leicester. In 1997 he was a co-founder of The Illustrated Ape Magazine; and in 2000 his book Handmade Prints - co-authored with Anne Desmet - was published by A & C Black.
www.jimpanzee.co.uk | jimpanzee@yahoo.co.uk | 07753 256 257
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Jane Ashdown
I am working as artist/printmaker in residence at Truro School in Cornwall and am a member of the Porthmeor Print Workshop in St Ives. I make etchings/landscapes based on drawings done in situ, and developed in the studio, where I experiment with marks and colours to find what is important to me about a chosen image.
jashdown@f2s.com | 01736 799 483
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Joanna Bourne
Jo principally works on wood, based on drawings and observations made around the area of Newcastle in which she lives. Her prints describe the local landscape encompassing the allotments, fields and park, with resident cows, walkers and birds. Jo responds in particular to the atmospheric incarnations of ‘northern’ weather – wind, snow and rain, and the changing times of the year.
Jo likes to use wood for the challenges it brings in terms of working with or against the grain, for the way in which the features of a particular piece of wood can be incorporated into the design, and for the textural quality it brings to the finished print.
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Ann Bridges
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.
Childhood memories of pond dipping, looking at aquariums, sorting through the button box and reading children’s stories (Princess and the Pea) all feature as subject matter.
www.ann-bridges.com | abridges@gotadsl.co.uk | 01824 703991
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Sue Brown
Collagraph involves making a collage, sealing the surface with varnish, and then printing the plate with an etching press. The technique provides intaglio prints with deeply textural surfaces.
I experiment with a range of easily obtained materials to make printmaking plates. Tile cement, waste packaging and carborundum grit are all found together to make images from the natural world. Wherever possible, my work is life size.
www.suebrownprintmaker.blogspot.com | sb.brown@talk21.com | 01242 511941
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Susan Dobson
Susan’s work celebrates the mountain environment and our human need to connect with wilderness.
Her distinctive monoprints and etchings reflect the strong affinity she feels with the remote and wild places that she visits regularly and makes work in. Her evocative images transport you to a mountain world of ephemeral, changing qualities - of snow, ice, mists, high peaks and far horizons.
“Out there, often in hard to reach, difficult places, the connection is both physical and spiritual and is what gives my work its strong sense of place.”
Susan’s studio is in Northumberland. She makes her prints at Northern Print, Newcastle.
www.susandobson.co.uk | info@susandobson.co.uk | 01434 603052
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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.
01539 552 333
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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.
www.richardfosteretchings.co.uk | info@richardfosteretchings.co.uk | 01229 869 503
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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!
www.ruthgreendesign.com | ruthgreendesign@hotmail.com | 0121 444 7098
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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.
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, along with the theme of British birds.
www.angelaharding.co.uk | harding11@btinternet.com | 01572 737 784
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Raymond Higgs
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 practiced 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.
www.raymondhiggs.co.uk | raymondhiggs@p-o-row.demon.co.uk | 01697 320 063
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Glenn Ibbitson
My print medium of choice is the monotype, favoured for its graphic spontaneity and a range of mark-making which cannot be readily accessed through any other medium.
I usually produce two prints from the same plate. The first pull produces a high contrast result. Shadow areas on the plate are then re-inked, resulting in a second state with a wider, subtler range of grey tones.
‘Consignment’ is an ongoing project comprising film paintings and prints – both screenprint and monotype. The central image [originally developed as an escapologist] has become a visual metaphor for the practice of human trafficking in all its manifestations: economic, social and political.
smokingbrush@btinternet.com | 01559 370 276
Carole King
My current work is inspired by maps of my local West Wales landscape in combination with aspects of its industrial archaeology. Chine collé techniques are used to combine text and printed matter with collagraphs to produce multi layered prints.
Some prints are cut, shaped and collaged together to reflect the patterns of field boundaries or traditional Welsh patchwork. Stitch further enriches the surface, weaving additional meaning into the artworks.
www.carolekingart.co.uk | mail@carolekingart.co.uk | 01559 370 276
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Jennie Ing
Jennie studied fine art specialising in printmaking at Croydon College and Wimbledon School of Art where she gained a Masters Degree.
Five years ago she set up her own studio space and prints her linocuts on a Victorian press. 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 30 years and this has been an influence on much of work. She is a member of Greenwich Printmakers, Richmond Printmakers and the Skylark Galleries in London.
www.jennieingart.co.uk | jennieing@yahoo.co.uk | 020 8941 2069
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Ink Spot Press
Ink Spot Press is a newly renovated print making studio in Brighton. It is run by Jane Sampson, an established printmaker of 25 years and Amy Douglas, an artist who was trained in the Decorative Arts and has a passion for printmaking.
InkSpot Press run courses in silkscreen, relief printmaking and letterpress. We have an evolving collection of interested printmakers and artists who are all members of our studio and print with us.
We hold exhibitions in the studio and running “Random Nights” monthly to entertain, inspire and surprise people.
www.inkspotpress.co.uk | info@inkspotpress.co.uk | 01273 691 496
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Lynn Kirkley
Lynn Kirkley studied illustration for her degree in Manchester and then became an art teacher in a high school. She moved into special education needs and prison before working in further adult education. She presently manages the Art and Craft provision for Bury Libraries and Adult Learning Service.
This body of work is a range of images featuring, AP (artist proof’s) and limited edition Collagraph Prints, Screen Prints Etchings and Mono-Prints which have been printed on paper and fabric, embellished with either silver or gold leaf, fabric or embroidery techniques.
www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/lynnkirkley | lynnkirkley@hotmail.com | 07840 489777
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Catherine Kleeli
Based at Hot Bed Press Print Studio in Salford, I work as both Painter and Printmaker. I continue to explore themes of family life, relying on family photographs and cine film as a launch pad. I strive to maintain an artistic open mindedness, a versatility of approach and a constant creative enquiry to express in visual language, matters of family significance.
In my printmaking and painting I adopt a multi-layered approach to help signify layers of personal history, each layer making a contribution to whom we ultimately become. In recent years I have worked predominantly using the ‘Gum Arabic Transfer’ print process, in combination with chine collé and monoprinting.
Most recently, I am using the ‘Solar Plate’ Print making process to bring fresh possibilities to my practice.
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Marion Kuit
Marion has taught Art in Secondary schools in Merseyside, Newcastle and Northumberland. Currently she teaches painting and printing in Adult Education, where she is also County Co-ordinator for Arts and Crafts in Cumbria Adult Education.
Marion was awarded an MA in Contemporary Arts Practice at Cumbria University in 2000 and since then has developed her printing practice. Relief prints are made on a C19th Columbian press.
She is a member of Kendal's Green Door Artists' Co-operative and regularly exhibits with them.
www.marionkuitgallery.com | cmkuit@hotmail.com | 01539 723 641
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Tracy Levine
Tracy gained a B.A(Hons) degree in Fine Art in 1986 and is a painter and printmaker working full time from her studio in Arnside, South Lakeland.
She works with a variety of media, including some collaged materials such as silver leaf, with original and experimental techniques. The majority of her printmaking explores monoprint, linoprint and carborundum, combining print and painterly elements. Each print produced is a unique, original work.
Tracy’s paintings and original prints are widely exhibited throughout the U.K and she has won awards and prizes including First Prize in the Cumbria Open 09.
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Karen Lloyd
I was brought up in Ulverston, moving to the north-east for college, and returning to live in Cumbria to raise my family.
My current work originates from looking at ancient artifacts in museums, and associations with the spread of early civilisation. I also enjoy observing birds and producing lino-prints. My painting practice centres on still life and landscape, influences include Mary Newcomb.
I work in schools and the museum service offering workshops and residencies, including projects for Creative Futures Cumbria.
www.karenlloyd.co.uk | karen.lloyd145@btinternet.com | 01539 722 306
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Julia Manning
I am a passionate full time PRINTMAKER I love ‘the craft ‘ and ‘the fine art’combined!
I am equally happy drawing in the wild or ‘whittling’ my plates in the studio.
My work is all about the natural world, it has been described as ‘Nature with Attitude (which I rather like) Inspiration comes from my garden and the birds in it, my early morning walks with my dog Pearl, in the 5 mile radius of my home in Keinton Mandeville, Somerset and my trips to wild places.
www.juliamanning.co.uk | juliamanning@uwclub.net | 01458 223 025
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Pete Marsh
Pete began painting and printmaking again in September 2009 following the discovery that an old friend and artist, Garry, had died. Feeling compelled to produce his own work again for the first time in nearly twenty years, Pete is exhibiting and selling once again.
He feels his work is perceptual rather than conceptual, emotional rather than intellectual and he prefers expression over realism, subtlety over sensationalism, substance over novelty and intuition over reason.
Pete’s work is held in private collections in the U. K., Canada and Australia.
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Colette Payne
Originally Colette worked with the NHS, in nursing and midwifery. In her late 20’s she studied for a Fine Art Degree at Sheffield and Hallam University, specialising in printmaking.
Looking after family, young and old, has taken priority for a number of years. However, through a recent introduction to the print facilities at Hotbed Press in Salford, Colette is now producing work regularly. Her work is primarily black and white lino-cut, with themes of local landscape and social situations. Colette won the Derbyshire Open Print Trophy 2010 with ‘Impression of The Torrs'
www.colettepayne.com | mail@colettepayne.com | 01663 744 182
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Tessa Pearson
Tessa Pearson is passionate about colour. She studied textile design at UCCA and the Royal college of Art, and for many years produced hand-painted fabrics, selling them at her London studio/ gallery and around the world. In recent years Tessa has rediscovered her first love of printmaking, revelling in its expressive mark-making qualities and element of unpredictability.
Inspired by memories of colour and imagery seen on her travels in Africa and Europe, Tessa works in series, exploring and revisiting a theme many times. Her bold abstract prints are mostly monotypes, often combined with collagraphs and elements of etchings with chin-colle.
www.tessapearson.com | tessa@pmuk.com | 07736 211 105
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Anja Percival
I am fascinated by the different atmospheres that light creates in both our rural and urban environments. My compositions aim to combine different moods of light, with contrasting space and surface qualities. I rarely start with line, but instead focus on the highlights within an image, and so create the composition by concentrating on the areas that will remain light, instead of building up the image with dark tones.
After my relocation back to Durham from Denmark at the end of 2009, I’m now incorporating locations closer to home, and my most recent work draws on impressions from Durham Cathedral.
www.anjapercival.co.uk | percivalanja@hotmail.com | 07889 362 365
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Ben Quail
My work is of a colourful and humorous nature. I include narrative and story telling in my prints. I use sketchbooks as a visual diary and develop my images from this and my interest in ecology and wildlife. I have specialised in print making but also run a community based arts programme called rural mural community arts. I am currently developing new work about the natural world based around the coastline and other regions in Britain. This work also includes an underlying narrative about humanity.
www.norwichprintfair.co.uk/benquail | benquail@aol.com | 01502 562 439
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Hugh Ribbans
At Canterbury College of Art relief printmaking was my craft subject, particularly linocutting. In 1989 I bought a restored Columbian press, circa 1830 and returned to the craft after many years, producing woodcuts and linocuts, mixing heavily grained wood - often driftwood - and lino in my prints. Subject matter can be images of animals and birds or people and places seen when traveling. Always with an obsession with line and a stylised graphic treatment much influenced by ethnic art and a reverence to Edward Bawden.
Exhibitions include the Barbican Gallery London, the National Theatre, the National Print Exhibition, the Printmakers Council, the Society of Wood Engravers, Printfest in Cumbria, the Society of Wildlife Artists, the Affordable ArtFair in London and ‘Originals 09’.
www.hughribbans.com | ribbans@ribbans.demon.co.uk | 01795 590 050
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Since childhood I have had a fond appreciation of nature and the surrounding countryside. I trained originally as a geography teacher, taught deaf children for several years and then later studied Art and Design at York College. In 2006 I received funding from Arts Council England to help with my professional development. As a printmaker, specialising in linocuts and providing workshops, I now work from my studio in Selby, North Yorkshire.
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I find my inspiration in the beautiful English countryside. I love wild places, imposing land masses, stormy seas and winter snow scenes.
I work mainly with collagraphs but also enjoy screen-printing. I work from a studio space in my home, with a splendid view over the rolling landscape. I also have a Victorian Hughes & Kimber printing press which gives me great joy and great prints. My Great Great Grandfather was Edward Kimber who founded the company that made my press. They were world renowned manufacturers of etching presses.
Printing is my passion and I hope you will share it with me.
www.jayseabrook.co.uk | jj@sparkle.vispa.com | 01572 717 322
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Theresa Taylor
Born in east Lancashire in 1957, after studying art locally trained in Fine Art in Lancaster and then Art Therapy in St Albans and Psychotherapy in Manchester. She has worked in this field within the NHS for 30 years, in parallel to her career as an artist .
Over past 11 years she has focused on printmaking, now mostly using collagraph, as this affords the spontaneity she prefers. Her work is inspired by natural forms using them to convey mood and using the imagery as a metaphor. Colour is also important in her work to capture atmosphere.
www.artinthecity.co.uk | taylor.stokes@btinternet.com | 01524 791 352
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Liz Toole
In my recent work, I have been creating imaginary scenes filled with the patterns of nature inspired by both the Sussex countryside and the diversity of life I found whilst traveling in Africa. I am interested in looking at details of trees and plants, Indian textiles and bird encyclopedias, and merging these sources to create, wall-paper like patterns that celebrate the English decorative tradition.
My new range of prints has been hand-made in small editions in Brighton, using the techniques of lino-cutting and screen-printing. The use of coloured French and Indian hand-made papers has also become increasingly important to me.
www.liztoole.com | liz-toole@excite.com | 07702 614 256
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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 have been intrigued by the circle for some time, with its paradox of complex associated ideas, expressed in such a simple form. Related to this, I am also interested in the tension between boundary and boundlessness, where the sphere of the earth meets the sky. The horizon seems to represent the concept of indefinite existence and events of the past, present and future; for me, it symbolises time.
I try to express all this through my circles and lines.
I work mostly with etching, monotype and embossing. Each piece is a unique, original work.
www.isobelwalker.co.uk | info@isobelwalker.co.uk | 0114 268 5399
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Beverley White
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.nipper@btinternet.com | 015395 354 14
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Ian Williams
I am a painter and printmaker, based in the Vale of Clwyd, North Wales. My work is generally based on day-to-day experiences, and set in the modern rural landscape, but abstracted so as to render any narrative and meaning obscure. I like to weave thoughts and internal imagery into the work, because these are part of ones reality, even whilst standing on top of a mountain. I might use an element or certain configuration as a starting point for a print. I make etchings or use a combination of drypoint, carborundum and sand to make delicate, textured collagraph plates in aluminium or card which I print using the intaglio method.
www.ian-williams.co.uk | ian@ian-williams.co.uk | 07900 497 794
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Neil Woodall
Neil Woodall has worked in printmaking for the past twenty five years. He works from a studio at Yorkshire Artspace , Sheffield, and specialises in aquatints and woodcuts. Woodall has exhibited widely throughout the British Isles and at international Biennales. He has produced several large pieces of etched steel public art work., including the panel commemorating the official opening of the Lowry Centre, Salford.
The landscape work has a strong sense of atmosphere and feeling of place due to the artist‘s use of light.
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Marie Wright
The past has always been present in my work and recently I have returned to explore more fully the memories of childhood; memories initiated by the small snippets of papers found in drawers and cupboards and ephemera of my past.
The work shown has been inspired by these tokens from my past; paper dress patterns, fabric remnants and buttons, not to be discarded.
The work is produced using screenprinting and engraving techniques onto fabric or ephemera such as remnants from paper patterns to build up layers reminiscent of memory.