Selection process Emails are being sent out to everyone who applied. The selection process has two stages: 1. The anonymous round ~ Each of the 8 judges receives a Pinterest link with a board titled ‘Selection Process 2020 – anonymous round’. They receive a criteria sheet and every applicants’ Artists’ statement of [...]
Sadie Tierney found her inspiration for the Printfest commission, sitting beside the deepest lake in England, looking at the tallest mountain in England, with half a mile of shale screes falling vertically half a mile into the fjord like lake, the dusk glowing the rocks pink, the colours changing by the second as night falls. [...]
Sadie Tierney found her inspiration for the Printfest commission, sitting beside the deepest lake in England, looking at the tallest mountain in England, with half a mile of shale screes falling vertically half a mile into the fjord like lake, the dusk glowing the rocks pink, the colours changing by the second as night [...]
Sadie Tierney Sadie will be creating a commissioned print, developed from a residency here in the Lake District, it will be launched at Printfest 2019. The image on this flyer is titled ‘Over the Mountain’, it is a woodcut and was exhibited at the 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2018. Sadie [...]
Flora McLachlan I make etchings, biting deeply then sandpapering to attack and sculpt the plate surface until the atmosphere is right. In contrast, working with lithography I watch the flow of the washes and follow the idea onwards as I draw. These contrasting approaches express my lyrical response to landscape. I’m fascinated [...]
Debby Akam I love the low- tech nature of woodcut and the direct relationship that exists between wood, paper and cut. I tend to improvise with a vocabulary of textures and forms, a methodology that allows me to insert imagery taken from different sources, including observational drawing, photographs and folk art. to: [...]
Joanna Allen Joanna Allen is an Artist, Printmaker and Textile Designer based in a small town in the Peak District. She graduated with a Degree in Printed Textiles from Manchester Metropolitan University and is currently a member of Peak District Artisans and High Peak Artists. Joanna’s hand printed intaglio prints, including etchings, [...]
Frances Arnold Frances Arnold creates minimalist, geometric prints inspired by her daily movement between vast rural landscapes and contained urban architecture. She combines her love of drawing with printmaking to convey a textured, pastel-like quality in her reductive screenprints. Her subtle use of embossing to accentuate voids and colours playfully alters our [...]
Jamie Barnes Jamie is a Freelance Curator and Printmaker in Cumbria. His artwork is principally concerned with manmade structures: houses, buildings, townscapes and structures in the landscape and on the coast. For Jamie all printmaking comes from drawing. He enjoys taking his love of line drawing and transforming it through the magic [...]
Helen Bishop Helen Bishop, printmaker and founder of Wildshed, specialises in collagraph printmaking. Wildshed was created after she fell in love with the collagraph printing process. Having spent a large majority of her life organising projects and people, she finds there is a certain sense of freedom that comes from using a [...]
