Adele Burdon Adele enjoys exploring the endless possibilities of Monotype printing using a variety of techniques, textures and eclectic items, collected on long walks through the countryside. Constantly experimenting and tinkering with the plate until an image reveals itself, escaping the confines of the plate as the landscape extends beyond our view. [...]
Deborah Bowness Deborah Bowness is an internationally recognised artist practitioner. A graduate of the MA Mixed Media course at the Royal College of Art, Deborah has developed a wallpaper and printmaking practice, designing and screen printing to commission for private and commercial clients including, Sotherbys, Habitat, Paul Smith and Universal Records. Deborah [...]
Jamie Barnes I am a Cumbrian printmaker who specialises in making aquatint etchings about buildings, architecture and structures both within the landscape and on the coast. I highlight architectural details in the urban environment and celebrate manmade incursions in the rural environment. For me all printmaking comes from drawing; my favourite activity. [...]
Sinclair Ashman My printmaking practice often asks questions of the art form, such as ‘when is a print finished?’ and ‘is a print the only possible outcome?’ For example, I sometimes include post-print embellishments, such as sewing threads into the paper surface, or folding the print into sculptural forms. My largely abstract [...]
Ruth Ander After completing her Illustration degree, Ruth has continued to hone her unique mono-print technique. Her pictures are delicate, translucent drifts of colour on fine tissue paper and traditional hand-made Japanese paper. Recent work combines etching and mono-print and strives to convey her love of the English land and sea scape. [...]
Sally Adkins Sally Adkins is an artist printmaker based within walking distance of the River Derwent, on the edge of the Peak District in Derbyshire. A multi-disciplinary printmaker, she works predominantly in the age-old tradition of acid-based etching, harnessing established techniques to develop finely etched, expressive metal plates. She also specialises in [...]
Gail Mason Printmakers' Printmaker Exuberant gestural painterly monotypes full of movement, weather, air and space. Sensitive colour is used to explore the emotional landscape through imagined and unseen places. Aiming to offer a sense of perspective, invite reflection and utilise the restorative and hopeful aspects of nature. Capitalising on the chance mark, [...]
Hilary Paynter Printmaker of the Year 2023 I always have more ideas than I can use and these range widely to include socio-political comment and landscape. I normally work directly onto end-grain wood with rudimentary drawings from ideas that I have been refining mentally and this allows development of the engraving on [...]
Printfest 2023 line-up Hilary Paynter ~ Printmaker of the year Gail Mason ~ Printmakers’ Printmaker | Sally Adkins | Ruth Ander | Sinclair Ashman | Jamie Barnes | Deborah Bowness | Adele Burdon | Ian Burke | James Bywood | Ian Cox | Jess Davies | Alison Diamond | Jane Duke | Katie Edwards [...]
The Printfest Print Collection 13th April ~ 26th May 2022 An exhibition of work from the Printfest Printmakers of the Year 2010-2022 on show at Brewery Arts, Kendal www.breweryarts.co.uk/event/printfest Why the collection exists Each year the Printfest Team select a Printmaker of the Year. They receive an award that includes a residency in [...]
