Past Exhibitors 2009-2015
Ali Yanya
Debby Akam
Julie Allen
Ruth Allen
Mike Allison
Jim Anderson
Jane Ashdown
Laura Boswell
Joanna Bourne
David T Bowyer
Louise Bradley
Ann Bridges
Stuart Brocklehurst
Sue Brown
Shelley Burgoyne
James Bywood
Tang Chenghua
Yu Chengyou
Merlyn Chesterman
Drusilla Cole
Nicky Cooney
Henrietta Corbett
Richenda Court
Hannah Cousins
Diana Croft
Kerry Day
Annwyn Dean
Janet Dickson
Susan Dobson
Cathy Duncan
Janice Earley
Katie Edwards
Judy Evans
Audrey Feltham
Richard Foster
Jude Freeman
Lucy Gell
Jane Glynn
Janis Goodman
Ruth Green
Katsunori Hamanishi
Angela Harding
Sarah Harris
John Heywood
Raymond Higgs
Nichola Hingley
Horsley Printmakers
Glenn Ibbitson
Jennie Ing
Ink Spot Press
Bridget Jones
John Jones
Katherine Jones
Carole King
Sarah Kirby
Lynn Kirkley
Catherine Kleeli
Marion Kuit
Tracy Levine
Angie Lewin
Karen Lloyd
Judith Lockie
Ross Loveday
Andrew Lovell
Christopher McHugh
Alexander McIntosh
Flora McLachlan
Ian McNicol
Moira McTague
Hannah McVicar
Kevin Maddison
Julia Manning
Pete Marsh
Debby Mason
Emerson Mayes
Pauline Meade
Angie Mitchell
Martin Mitchell
Stephanie Mitchell
Lisa Moore
Jane Mowat
Jane Ormes
Colin Park
Rolf Parker
Colette Payne
Jilla Peacock
Mark A Pearce
Tessa Pearson
Jane Peart
Anja Percival
Helen Peyton
Trevor Price
Ben Quail
Jo Quinn
Regional Print Centre
Hugh Ribbans
Simon Ripley
Gayle Robinson
Helen Roddie
Heike Roesel
Shenac Rogerson
Alison Saldana
Jane Sampson
Jay Seabrook
Paula Smithson
South Bank Printmakers
Laura Sowerby
Kelly Stewart
Alan Stones
Dionne Swift
Theresa Taylor
Glenn Tomkinson
Laine Tomkinson
Liz Toole
Gill Tyson
Rosemary Vanns
Isobel Walker
Jane Walker
Frans Wesselman
Beverley White
Ian Williams
Neil Woodall
Marie Wright
Fouzia Zafar
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Ali Yanya
Ali Yanya is a painter and printmaker born in Istanbul. He lives and works in London teaching printmaking at Morley College. Yanya studied Fine Art at Marmara University in Istanbul in 1980-84 and then printmaking at Royal College of Art London in 1988-1990. Yanya's work is in the print collections of the British Museum, Clifford Chance International Law Firm, Turkish graphic Museum and BP Turkey. Ali’s work is a continuous exploration of man and his relationship with his surroundings and history & politics. -
Debby Akam
“My woodcut prints are characterised by saturated colour and repeating motifs. Overlaid slabs of decorative patterning and natural forms link my immediate environment (near a river) with other places that I’ve travelled to or would like to see.
My way of working is exploratory: I usually make the prints in series of seven or eight at a time so I can play around and experiment with them, making changes as the work develops.
Prints are not produced as multiples- each one is unique.”
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Julie Allen
Julie studied for a degree in graphic design and illustration at Middlesex Polytechnic and after graduating worked for several years as a freelance illustrator alongside her lecturing and printmaking. She uses several printmaking techniques including monoprint, collagraph and linocut. Her prints are strongly influenced by her love of Persian miniatures with their beautiful patterns and flattened perspective. They often depict birds and beasts and the rich colours have a painterly quality. Julieʼs work has been exhibited widely throughout the UK as an illustrator, artist and printmaker and she has had work published in magazines and more recently by Woodmansterne Cards.
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Ruth Allen
“My work is based around the themes of architecture and interiors. I take inspiration for my work from 1950’s textile prints and interior design, the work of Lucienne Day has formed a vital component in the development of my own art Practice.
I use a delicate continuous black line to capture the essence of an image, the line offset against blocks of colour and collage. My aim is to give a focus to the work which is reminiscent of the techniques, colours and element of pattern that is within 1950’s design.”
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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 printmaker, mosaic-maker, teacher, and writer. He uses several different media; recycled materials are paramount, and his work is steeped in the surreal and the satirical.
In 1994 Sister Wendy Beckett awarded him the under-30 prize at the Eastern Art Show. Since then he has won four awards in major exhibitions - most recently in 2007’s Small Print Big Impression. In 1997 he was co-founder of The Illustrated Ape magazine; and his book Handmade Prints – written with Anne Desmet – was published in 2000. He was also one of the artists featured in Tony Dyson’s book Printmakers’ Secret.
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Jane Ashdown
I work in etching because I love the processes, tools and materials. The source of my work is the natural environment and found fragments but they are just starting points.
I like to experiment with colour, mark-making and space to express the title or notion that I have in my mind. I was very influenced by my residency in a print workshop in China, in 2011.
I am based in Cornwall where I work as an artist in residence/teacher and am a member of the Porthmeor Print Workshop in St.Ives.
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Laura Boswell
I have a degree in Visual Art/Art History from Aberystwyth University. Following a career in business, I became a full time artist in 2005 dividing my time between my own work, teaching and public art projects. I specialise in relief printmaking working in linocut and Japanese woodblock. In 2009 I studied traditional woodblock under masters in Japan and in 2013 I completed a second Japanese residency. I specialise in rural and costal landscape and have recently completed two commissions for the Health Service, providing large scale prints of the Isle of Wight and the South Downs.
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Joanna Bourne
Printmakers' Printmaker 2014
Joanna has been printmaking since the late 1980s, for many years sporadically while bringing up a family but since 2007 she has had more opportunity to print and exhibit her work.
Much of Jo's work is based on walks around her home in Newcastle, a landscape of allotments, town moor and park though more recent prints have been inspired by the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. She is developing her use of woodcut to explore the degrees of transparency and subtlety which can be achieved with this medium and many of her woodcuts are printed by hand.
Jo divides her time as a printmaker with working part-time and teaching classes for Northern Print.
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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.
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Louise Bradley
“I’m based in Newcastle upon Tyne and am a member of Northern Print Studio. I most recently exhibited in 2014 as part of the International Print Biennale. I approach print as a painter, using screenprinting to develop layered translucent images using colour and line as well as making monoprinted images using ink and paint on the screen.
My prints are developed from drawings and papercuts and are inspired by plants, particularly flowers - themes include herbalism, notions of beauty, fertility and symbolism. I exploit drawing, which remains an underpinning medium for its directness, purity and simplicity.”
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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 with the addition of offset marks from the rollers and drypoint card plates.
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.
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Stuart Brocklehurst
As an artist my work is inspired by the natural environment. From the abstractions of light, shade and cloud patterns on the landscape, to the ripples spreading across a crystal clear river caused by a trout rising to take a fly. I draw and paint images of places I have a strong affinity with, many through association having lived and worked there.
Influenced by Japanese woodblock prints and the simplicity of early 20th Century travel posters, linocut printing forms the main focus of my work. I make reduction prints from a single block, printing the colours sequentially from light to dark. The editions are all hand printed using a Japanese baren – there is no press involved.
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Sue Brown
Springing from the pages of her sketch books and inspired by all things ornithological, Sue has made collagraphs for 18 years. An intaglio process which involves making a collage combining tile cement, carborundum and found textures. Sue is fascinated by our relationship and interaction with birds in our environment and is continually inspire by the bird visitors to her town garden. She is also passionate about promoting the understanding of the artist print, Sue leads workshops and demonstrations for groups of all ages in collagraph and mixed media sketch book techniques.
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Shelley Burgoyne
I am a contemporary printmaker, working from my studio in West Yorkshire where I also run Printmaking Courses. I have taken part in residencies and many national and international exhibitions. I exhibited at Printfest in 2003 and 2005 and was given the ‘Printmakers Printer Award’. I am currently completing a residency in Gloucestershire.
I use intaglio and relief print processes to explore form and line and generate new life in the process. My approach is organic and intuitive. The main themes are flora, fauna, our internal anatomy, water, movement and tides. All feature strongly as metaphors for change and renewal.
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James Bywood
James Bywood is an artist, printmaker and educator. Based in Morley, West Yorkshire, James is interested in replicating the British landscape through print. He specialises in taking screen-print techniques beyond their traditional commercial environment and using them to capture the landscape - both natural and man-made - in which he lives. James was educated at Bristol College of Art before working in the commercial print industry. He now splits his time between teaching printmaking, exhibiting his prints nationally, helping to manage the annual Saltaire Arts Trail, and aiding small businesses across Yorkshire capture their creative side to grow their sales.
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Tang Chenghua
Tang Chenghua, who teaches at the China Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA), his work which straddles the divide between materials and mediums, has traces of a magnificent personal style. Thick, bold ink strokes are the backbone, forming the foundation for a freewheeling clash between colour and space. The image structure is marked by Chinese Kuangcao calligraphy, with its bizarre combinations of cursive Chinese script and empty space. The finely textured strokes sweep across the space, adding vivid and lively tones to the overall image. Vast swaths of blackness hint at an empty void, giving the picture pure power.
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Yu Chengyou
Yu Chengyou ‘s images have drawn upon the natural surroundings of the northern provinces of china, from wild life to human life , places that through the simplicity of his style, seem tranquility and uncluttered, quite a contrast to the metropolises’ of China. Solace from the maddening crowd and industrialisation of China. His work promises something better for us, a world to strive for. These are prints of vision and style, with analytical precision and imagination, that is unique to Yu Chengyou.
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Merlyn Chesterman
Merlyn Chesterman grew up in Hong Kong, returning to England to study painting at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, and later, woodblock printmaking at West Dean College, where she now teaches on the Short Course Programme.She is a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
Merlyn is based in Hartland, North Devon,where she has a studio and runs courses. Her work is semi-abstract and is usually based on places that have a particular beauty.
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Drusilla Cole
“I am currently exploring linocuts and, in particular, reduction linocuts. I use rainbow rolls, stencils and sometimes caustic soda to enrich areas of the prints and enhance texture. At present, my artwork demonstrates my fascination with quirky, unreconstructed and unusual architectural constructions and buildings, especially any containing lettering.
Local landscapes and, occasionally, pieces from my collection of vintage items are also important to me, and I find my drawings of these frequently crop up in my artwork. Another interest is in prehistoric monuments and structures.
I base my work on my own photographs or paintings and sketches, whenever possible.”
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Nicky Cooney
Trained as a potter, I took a sideways step into publishing and television before returning to art full time via book illustration and I have illustrated over twenty books with publishers including Walker Books, Frances Lincoln, Transworld and OUP.
My work is in galleries around the UK and I exhibit regularly at the Affordable Art Fair- London, Oxford Artweeks, Brighton Art Fair. I am a member of the Association of Illustrators and make my prints at Oxford Printmakers and Inkspot Press Brighton.
I work with lino cuts, woodcuts and collagraph, printing in black and white and introduce colour into my work in several ways, using metal leaf, hand colouring with water colour or by the application of fine coloured tissue, a technique known as chine colle, and I often print on coloured paper.
My inspiration comes from many sources, folk tales, ethnic art and an appreciation of the natural world combined with a love of pattern.
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Henrietta Corbett
Printmakers' Printmaker 2010
Henrietta Studied a Fine Art Degree at the School of Art Wolverhampton Polytechnic where she specialized in Sculpture and Print. She was taught by the artist Anish Kapoor, and by the sculptor Nicola Hicks, both of whom had a significant impact on her as an art student.
Henrietta has over the years won many prestigious awards for her innovative works and clever use of line and colour, the former gaining her the ‘George Pickard’ award from the Leicester Society of Artists, and in the same year the ‘Printmakers Printmaker’ award from Printfest in Ulverston Cumbria.
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Richenda Court
I studied Fine Art and Dance at the University of Brighton before completing a Post Graduate Diploma in Contemporary Dance at the Laban Centre in London.
After graduating I taught choreography and contemporary dance to a wide range of courses at venues across West London, during this time I always kept up printmaking studying at Putney School of Art under Richard Michelle, Birgit’s Skold’s lead printmaker.
I have been working as an artist printmaker for many years; making prints mainly at Morley College, London and Ochre Print Studio, Guildford. I am currently Relief and Events Director at Ochre Print Studios specialising in the relief techniques of printmaking and organising exhibitions and artist talks.
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Hannah Cousins
Hannah graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 2012 with a BA in illustration. She now lives in North London and creates limited edition linocuts from her small home studio. Inspired by the monochrome, graphic prints of both Edward Bawden and Hugo Guinness, Hannah’s linocuts are simple expressions of everyday life developed from sparse observational drawings done on trips to the coast.
Much of the subject matter for her work derives from an enjoyment of rural landscapes, a love of nature and an interest in characterful objects or home interiors which tell a story about their owner.
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Diana Croft
Working as a printmaker since the 1980’s Diana has experimented with all forms of printmaking but now concentrates on collagraphs and linocuts. Inspiration comes from locations as diverse as the arid landscapes of Morocco and Spain to the South Downs and English formal gardens.
Recent work has derived from sketches of the rolling hills of Sussex and Dorset, translated into stylised collagraph prints with a strong element of pattern and design. She is currently working on a series of monoprints inspired by the process of seed dispersal.
Diana has exhibited widely including The RA Summer Exhibition, The National Theatre, The Oxo Tower Gallery and the Affordable Art Fair.
She is a member of The Greenwich Printmakers and Southbank Printmakers co-operatives.
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Kerry Day
Kerry enjoys the process of celebrating form through printmaking; building up a body of bright and bold work using reduction linocut and screen printing. Losing herself in the intensity and precision of the linocut process and the recognition that the piece is not finished until she cuts that final line. Screen-printing offers a livelier, painterly feel and the methodical layering of colour and tone is immensely enjoyable. Inspiration comes from the many cacti and plants she shares her home and studio with, fascinated by the shapes and contours of leaves, and the joy of discovering new patterns within the vibrant green foliage.
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Annwyn Dean
“I am fascinated by fragments and draw my inspiration from my collection of antique textiles. I present my ideas predominantly in book format, as I feel that the book allow the viewer direct contact with myself and the fragments. The pages are created from Collagraphic prints on a variety of papers.
With my background as a textile artist, and being a largely self-taught print maker, the integration of stitch techniques and processes into my printmaking practice is a natural progression. I feel that it is the combination of these skills which give my work its particular characteristics.”
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