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Anja Percival (Printmaker Of The Year)
I am a printmaker, and the majority of my work combines collagraph and etching techniques to build up multi layered imagery with rich, textural surfaces. My prints utilise both representational and abstract elements, to produce images that portray my experience of the landscape.
I am fascinated by the different atmospheres that light creates in both our rural and urban environments. Since visiting Denmark in 2005, I have been hugely inspired by the new surroundings and my most recent work has been influenced by the more ‘urban’ scenery that I have experienced.
www.anjapercival.co.uk | info@anjapercival.co.uk | 0191 384 1701
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Julia Manning (Printmakers' Printmaker 2009)
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 her home in Keinton Mandeville, Somerset and my trips to wild places.
Original wood cuts, lino and etchings, printed by hand in my Somerset studio.
Associate member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers and The Society of Wildlife Artists. A member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen and Makers Taunton
www.juliamanning.co.uk | julia@juliamanning.co.uk | 01458 223 025
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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
Jane studied fine art at the Ruskin, Oxford, and completed an MA at the University of Brighton. Currently she is Artist in Residence at Truro School, Cornwall, working as a printmaker, and is an active member of the Porthmeor Print Workshop in St Ives. She has traveled extensively in China and Borneo and spent some time living in the foothills of the Pyrennees. In between teaching she has continued to develop her work in etching and, after recently studying Japanese woodcut techniques, is starting to extend her work into woodcut.
jashdown@f2s.com | 01326 565 743
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Joanna Bourne
I have recently returned to printmaking and exhibiting after a long break.
I principally make woodcuts based on drawings and observations made around the city of Newcastle in which I live. I am interested in finding nature and wildlife in the city, and use my immediate outdoor environment of garden, allotment and town moor as a subject matter. I like to use wood for the challenges it brings in terms of working with the grain, for the way in which the features of a particular plank can be incorporated into the design, and for the textural quality it gives to the finished print.
cchrisnjo@aol.com | 0191 273 7734
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David T. 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.
bowyerdvt@aol.com | 020 8853 3962
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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.
www.ann-bridges.com | abridges@gotadsl.co.uk | 01824 703 991
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Henrietta Corbett
Henrietta holds a BA in Sculpture and Print from Wolverhampton Polytechnic where she was taught by the Artist Anish Kapoor. She also has an MA in Art Education from Brighton University and has recently been nominated for the 'Sir Richard Attenborough Painting Award' at the City Gallery Leicester.
www.henriettacorbett.com | hc@henriettacorbett.com | 0116 239 5363
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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.
judyevansdesigns@hotmail.co.uk | 01539 552 333
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My artistic practise is centered in both exploration of process and thematic exploration of the concepts of memory and relocation or translocation. My work is narrative in nature, with the inclusion of text as an element that is tended as a departure point for the viewer. I am interested in taking the viewer on a journey, with the intention of self discovery through
the process of making connection through visual and written elements.
My exploration of process has been centred in the incorporation of fibre into printmaking practise. This exploration began in 1999 with the “Emblematura Prints” that I created for the traveling exhibition Fine Art and Haute Couture: Marriage of Power and Control.
www.atelierwest.ca | atelier.west@nf.sympatico.ca | +1 (709) 635 3604
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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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I studied illustration at Staffordshire University. After college I worked as a puppet maker and then an animator for Cosgrove Hall Films.
I began printmaking at this time, attending courses locally and the summer school at Falmouth college of Art. I sell my work at local art and craft fairs and have recently joined High Peak Artists. Where my work is for sale at Gallery in the Gardens, Buxton.
Last June I won the Derbyshire county council and Tarmac Ltd Print Trophy. My work is heavily influenced by my animation career. My subjects display a sense of fun and humour.
www.lucygell.com | lucy.gell@btinternet.com | 01663 741 780
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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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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.
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Printmakers, Rebecca Vincent and Carol Nunan set up Horsley Printmakers 2004. It is a thriving printmaking studio based at The Hearth Arts Centre in Horsley, Northumberland where Rebecca and Carol make and sell their own original and limited edition prints and teach printmaking workshops in a wide variety of printmaking media.
Horsley Printmakers tutors and students exhibit annually at The Biscuit Factory in Newcastle with a great deal of success. The Hearth, a converted 17th century manse and 19th century schoolrooms, plays host to eight artists’ studios and a coffee shop. It is roughly half way between Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Hexham.
www.horsleyprintmakers.co.uk | carol@horsleyprintmakers.co.uk | 07889 955 108
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Jennie Ing
Jennie studied fine art printmaking at Croyden College and Wimbledon School of Art where she gained a Masters Degree.
Four years ago she set up her own studio after buying a Victorian printing press, on which she produces her linocut prints, in colour by the reduction method, and in simple black and white. Her work is influenced 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 which is an influence on much of her work.
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John Jones
John Jones trained at Bath Academy of Art at Corsham, then taught fine art for 25 years at further and higher education levels in Yorkshire. He was a founder of Scarborough’s Crescent Arts Workshop, and instigator of the North Yorkshire Open Studios event.
As an artist-printmaker, he specializes in colour linoprinting, deriving his subjects from memorable sightings, occasions and viewpoints which are often based on his coastal or moorland surroundings. He uses the reduction-block method of printing, by which the linoblock is systematically cut or etched away between each different colour stage of overprinting. This usually ensures accurate colour registration, but also means that only one edition of each complete image can ever be made. He uses an 1840 ‘Albion’ cast-iron platen hand-press to produce his prints.
www.printmakingonline.co.uk | jjalbion@supanet.com | 01723 870 759
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Lynn Ann Kirkley
I like to do etching in particular collagraph prints, mixing drawing and painting on fabric, and then completing by adding textiles. I am particularly influenced by Klimt and his use of colour, the print work of Paula Rego and the drawing skills of Hockney. These influences are demonstrated in my work.
I completed a degree in Illustration at Manchester in 1983 before achieving a teaching qualification. I worked in secondary and special schools, and then worked in prison, further and continuing adult education.
I have been a manager for arts and crafts in adult education since 2003, achieving grade 1 provision in inspection.
I have exhibited in galleries across the North West, most recently, in Salford, Stockport and Bury. I have had work produced in many publications currently in Artists and Illustrators July issue. I reached the North West final of the TV programme “Brush with Fame.”
www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/lynnkirkley | lynnkirkley@hotmail.com | 01204 886 770
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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.
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Debby Mason
My recent work has included furry and feathery creatures following a year working on illustrations for a book 'The Game Book' by Norman Tebbit. This was quite a departure as much of my previous work has been concerned with marine life - fins and scales.
Sea Creature will still remain an important part of my printmaking, but I am very much enjoying, discovering and constantly being amazed by many creatures and I feel most privileged to be able to work at something I love so much.
www.debbymason.com | cattewaterpress@hotmail.com | 01752 492 927
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Pauline Meade
Pauline Meade studied Graphic Arts and Printmaking at Leeds Metropolitan University. She works mainly from her home studio in West Yorkshire and has been printmaking for the last 18 years.
My work is mainly inspired by landscape and the natural environment, especially of the fells and flora of the north Pennines and Lake District. Some recent images are from the inspirational landscape and culture of Nepal. 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. Printmaking is a fascinating and variable way of working and I also use monoprint and collagraph techniques, as well as black and white aquatint etching.
www.axisweb.org/artist/paulinemeade | p.meade@lineone.net | 01484 847 834
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Jane Ormes
Jane's screenprints involve playful colourful images often involving animals in absurd situations. She thinks that these creatures all have a secret life that we know nothing about. Jane keeps a notebook to jot down unusual names or lyrical phrases as these can often lead to an idea but it's more likely that she will be inspired by a story or situation that tickles her.
Drawing, patterns and textures are all integral to Jane's work as well as large areas of flat bold colour which can be achieved in screen printing.
She is a founder member of a new gallery/shop co-operative called Fig in Bristol.
www.janeormes.co.uk | janeormes@blueyonder.co.uk | 0117 924 4898
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Colin Park
For 2010 my work will revolve around large woodcuts, printed on fine rice paper, based on my stay in China in the studio of Master Woodblock Printer Xiang Silou. Also my connection with the inspirational work of the Macedonian Printmaker Ivanco Talevski combined with the belief that art can only be appreciated by individual interaction, an uncontrived honesty, the interpersonal relationship, tells me that it is not the talking about it – it is the doing of it.
www.colinpark.com | colin.park@gmx.com | 01556 650 457
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Tessa Pearson
Passionate about colour, Tessa Pearson studied textiles at West Surrey College of Art and Design and the Royal college of Art, and enjoyed a successful career for many years producing hand -painted fabrics, selling them at her London studio/gallery and around the world. Tessa has recently returned to her first love of printmaking, reveling in its expressive mark-making qualities and element of unpredictability.
Inspired by memories of colour and imagery from her travels,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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Ben Quail
As an artist I enjoy working on projects and achieving to deadlines, whilst being aware of the need for reflection to improve results and the success of the working and creative process. I have worked as a teacher and artist in residence in schools and community centres as well as self initiated Art and design exhibitions/projects.
As an exhibiting printmaker and fine artist/illustrator I am flexible to the many varied opportunities and creative projects that arise including gallery exhibitions art fairs residencies in schools and community arts practice. I have the experience of putting on solo shows and group exhibitions as well as running community events as part of a team.
www.norwichprintfair.co.uk/benquail | benquail@aol.com | 01502 562 439
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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.
www.facebook.com/regionalprintcentre | printcentre@yale-wrexham.ac.uk | 01978 311 794 xtn 2286
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Simon Ripley
Simon makes colourful abstracted monotypes on handmade Japanese papers using an 1850’s Columbian press - one of the first Iron printing presses ever made. He is the founder of Exeter’s Double Elephant Print Workshop and he teaches printmaking in schools throughout the South West. His work emerges from simple sketched drawings that make reference to real objects in the world around us: an element of the landscape, a domestic object, an iconic form. These prints are exciting and thought provoking and raises questions about the way that we see the world in different ways.
www.simonripley.co.uk | simon@simonripley.co.uk | 01363 776 773
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Gayle Robinson
Gayle Robinson grew up in Glasgow, attending Grays School of Art, Aberdeen studying Fine Art Printmaking. She then went onto do her MA at Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee.
Gayle specializes in collograph printmaking which she finds the perfect technique to recreate the texture, form and linear quality found in within her prints. She uses familiar sights within nature such as trees, field patterns and the changing of seasons as her main source of inspiration.
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Dionne Swift
I am a Textile Artist based in West Yorkshire specialising primarily in ‘devore’ – an etching process for fabric. A recent Arts Council grant allowed me to expand my practice and explore new techniques in conjunction with textiles. Print making was an obvious draw.
‘NEW GROUNDS’ plays with collographic print on felt with dyes and stitch. Images highlight overlooked corners, broken edges and disjointed lines. Felt is resilient to the pressures of the press these protective qualities are alluring and comforting.
www.dionneswift.co.uk | info@dionneswift.co.uk | 07974 747 080
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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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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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Frans Wesselman
I make etchings, stained glass and paintings in oils and water colour.
Almost all my work has a narrative element and it is usually based on observation of the natural world. The inspiration comes sometimes from literature, from Shakespeare, the bible or poetry, sometimes from things I have seen or experienced, sometimes things just come into my head. It is not my main intention to illustrate, more to get a certain feeling or atmosphere across.
www.fwstainedglass.com | frans@wesselman.freeserve.co.uk | 01694 723 544
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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 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 creates a sense of atmosphere and feeling of place. His woodcuts are more dynamic yet retain a poetic quality.