Anne Desmet is the Printmaker of the Year 2026 ~ Anne Desmet specializes in wood engraving, linocut, lithography, digital prints and mixed-media printed collage. Her engravings are printed on her cast-iron Albion printing press, made in 1859 and still in perfect working order. Her subject matter is largely architectural yet buildings are subject to [...]

Aga Kubish is the Printmakers’ Printmaker selected by her peers in 2025 ~ Aga Kubish is an awards-winning fine artist and printmaker based in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, UK. Known for her intricate, botanical-inspired linocut prints, Aga has developed a highly detailed and instantly recognizable style influenced by traditional engraving techniques. Her process combines pointillism, hatching, and [...]

Sally Adkins’ practice explores the ‘within’ and ‘beyond’ in landscape: she investigates an emotional and spiritual response to being immersed in nature, especially the exquisite dialogue between water and land. Adkins works predominantly within the heritage of acid-based etching, creating deeply atmospheric plates, as well as monotypes and contemporary interventions in print. Her work [...]

After completing her Illustration degree, Ruth has continued to hone her unique mono-print, drypoint etching and collage technique. Her pictures are delicate, translucent drifts of colour and hand gestures combined with velvety, scratched lines. Recent work has been inspired by a trip to the Isle of Skye and strives to convey her love of [...]

Margaret studied Fine Art at the University of Hertfordshire followed by a Masters in Printmaking at the University of Brighton. She is interested in faith and connection, suggested through movement, gesture and sign language. She often returns to contemporary dance as a motif, using her own photographs or found footage. She realises her images [...]

I’ve always had a fascination with ecosystems, microcosmos, and the ethereal beauty the creatures of our world encapsulate. These fascinations come to life in my work through drawing the fine hair of an opossum, printing the impressions of hair and feathers, or magnifying the veins of a plant. I bring to light in my [...]

As all art is phenomenology (that which appears to the senses) artists are reporting on the truth, not truth itself. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. My subject is landscapes, showing the simplistic beauty of the land, the complexity and sophistication of nature [...]

I studied fine art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne where my interest in industrial spaces began during sketching trips to Swan Hunter shipyard. Recent pieces tell the story of Teesside steelworks and a ceramic brick from Farnley Iron Works Company Leeds, found on Richie’s beach at Hartlepool, on the Tees estuary. The [...]

I’m most inspired whilst walking in the countryside and enjoy creating impressionistic linocuts from my scenic discoveries. Often, they are quite simple scenes of woodlands, water or flowers that are elevated by dappled light, weather, or seasonal colour. I cut in a loose, painterly fashion using a variety of gouges to explore mark-making. Often [...]

Irene Burkhard’s practice is rooted in the material and conceptual language of etching. Drawn to the medium’s slow, physical nature, she values its resistance to speed and the permanence of every mark. Walking shapes her work; it is how she observes, listens, and gathers the emotional texture of place. These impressions first become intuitive [...]