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Our 2010 Printmaker of the Year was Anja Percival. Printfest partnered with Northern Print Studio who provided a short list of artists and the final selection was made by a panel comprising Printfest organisers and artists, with the advice of Printmaking Today, the leading magazine for artist printmakers.

Anja is fascinated by the different atmospheres that light creates in rural and especially urban environments. She uses variations in light, form, texture and colour to magnify the moods and sensations of the places she experiences – lonely streets, deserted railway stations and even the canals of Venice – in etchings of haunting beauty.

Anja trained at Falmouth College of Art between 1998 and 2002. She has been a member of several print studios in Cornwall and in 2005 moved to Copenhagen to continue her printmaking at the prestigious National Workshops for Arts and Crafts at the Gammel Dok Pakhus in Strandgade. Whilst in Denmark she discovered the unique print studios at Odense – the Fyns Grafiske Vaerksted. Today she divides her time between the print studio in Odense and the Northern Print Studio in Newcastle. Her work has been exhibited extensively in Denmark and throughout the UK. She has won a number of Prizes, including the Bodil Prize in Denmark.

www.anjapercival.co.uk


Anja Percival – Printmaker of the Year 2010