Alan Stones Cumbria based artist Alan Stones began his printmaking career in 1984 after winning a Gulbenkian Foundation Award 'to experiment in printmaking'. Initially Alan's subject was hill farming in the Northern Pennines but in the mid 1990's, after a 3 month residency on the Falkland Islands, the imagery of his lithographs [...]
Kelly Stewart Kelly has worked predominantly with the screenprint process and been a member of Edinburgh Printmakers Studio for 17 years, combining drawings with mark making and handwritten text. Screenprinting offers endless possibilities with hand drawn layers that are overlaid using opaque or transparent acrylic inks. Kelly is based in Edinburgh where [...]
Nell Smith Nell Smith is an illustrator and printmaker working from a studio at Hot Bed Press in Salford. Her work explores intuition and chance, and exploits the random imperfections that are found in analogue techniques to create a dynamic aesthetic. Inspired by the imagery and forms of the natural world, she [...]
Rahil Sheikh My print work aims to be rhythmic and graphic and increasingly I am interested in mental techniques to focus energy and spirit into each cut rather than on thinking too hard about perfecting the image itself. Often the work has a relationship with a piece of poetry. I see a [...]
Jay Seabrook I am a printmaker living and working in Rutland. I produce small limited edition runs of collagraph prints with watercolour detail. My work often features hard to reach, remote places which perhaps could not exist. I am always trying to evoke a feeling of escape from daily life. I love [...]
Anthony Ratcliffe The artist is now a fulltime printmaker after retiring from a senior lecturer post at Manchester School of Art, he was born in South Yorkshire and has always based his work around an exploration of British landscape. The images are developed from sketchbook drawings made on site and enriched by [...]
Dorothy Ramsay When I went to Sunderland Art College at the age of 16, I fell in love with printmaking. I then went to Camberwell School of Art and specialised in Etching and Lithography. While I brought up my 3 children, I became a weaver for 18 years at Wetheriggs Pottery where [...]
Ian Phillips A chance encounter with a book of ‘Hiroshige’s 53 stages of the Tokaido’ woodcut prints, whilst studying Illustration at Leicester Polytechnic, seduced me into the world of relief print from which I’ve never escaped. I've been trying to catch the delicate sensibilities of seasonal weather and the dramatic natural compositions [...]
Babs Pease I live on a small farm in Clackmannanshire, overlooking the beautiful Devon Valley with the backdrop of the dramatic Ochil Hills. It is this landscape, it’s flora and fauna and the amazing changes of light that are a constant inspiration to me. The mediums I work in include a number [...]
Mark Pearce Mark trained at Carlisle College of Art and then The Norwich School of Art. As a graphic designer Mark had a successful career as creative director of his own brand identity consultancy in London. Mark now lives and works in Ravenglass, West Cumbria creating limited edition reduction linocuts as well [...]
