Flora McLachlan In etching, the copper plate enters the mordant as into a witch’s cauldron; working like this, you are drawing incantations and casting spells. I enjoy using impermanent and chaotic etching grounds to let chance into my work, which I then scry into with scraper and additional etching to reach the [...]
Jenny McCabe Jenny McCabe is a printmaker based in Lancaster, with over 20 years experience of making and exhibiting. Jenny works mainly with intaglio printmaking methods preferring metal plate etchings and card Collagraph constructed plates. She breathes life into the plates with her decisive mark-making, turning a simple piece of metal or [...]
Emerson Mayes Emerson Mayes is a painter and printmaker who produces honest and uncontrived work reflecting his obvious passion for painting, printmaking and the natural world. Over the last couple of years the pull of monotype has dominated Emerson’s work. Essentially a printed painting, it could be asked why go through the [...]
Beverley Matchette-Downes Beverley Matchette-Downes’ recent work has been dominated by a mild obsession with trees. Her work, although essentially figurative, is somewhat abstract, to create visual interest and make it her own. She uses many printmaking techniques however much of her recent work has involved aluminium waterless lithography plates, often using at [...]
Jenny Martin My work is predominantly about the things I love: colour, pattern, beautiful objects, textiles, quirky shops, gardening, and making things. I started printmaking after leaving Edinburgh College of Art in 1998, where I studied painting. I went to Edinburgh Printmakers and was drawn to screen-printing, attracted by the possibilities of [...]
Pete Marsh My work is representational comprising largely of landscape and figurative work. I use “plein-air” sketches, studio sketches, photographs and occasionally digital manipulation techniques to help to produce, not just a facsimile of what I see, but something that expresses what I feel. My work is perceptual rather than conceptual, emotional [...]
Marion Kuit I m attracted by various subjects but travel always produces something. The Net Curtain series was prompted by a visit to Donegal where houses are often abandoned because of economic or social reasons.The empty houses are sombre places where the torn curtains seemed to sum up the desolation. In the [...]
Emily Ketteringham Based in Bristol, Emily has been a printmaker since 2006. Her many-layered screenprints are inspired by geology, rocks and walking. The overarching theme that unites her work is her ongoing exploration of colour. Working with very translucent inks, Emily enjoys exploring the space between control and chance – mixing very [...]
Glenn Ibbitson George Orwell’s writings are, sadly, as relevant today as they were when they were first penned. The screenprints comprising ’The Orwell Companion’ presented here, is a series of proposed book covers for a new edition of Orwell’s works. Shrinking glacier mints and melting confections from commercial packaginQg to convey the [...]
Penny Hunt Landscapes that focus on atmosphere not detail, the feel of the wind, the connections with open space and freedom, the light changing with the weather. My home in the Dales gives access to all of this and is a constant source of inspiration along with the other places I spend [...]
