Ann Bridges Ideas for prints start in sketchbooks, directly from observational drawing and from happy memories of holidays and childhood pastimes. Ann’s prints combine an eye for detail with an imaginative interpretation, using monoprint techniques, stencils and card-based printing plates. Each piece is Unique, usually produced in a small series exploring a [...]
Laura Boswell My work exists entirely within the tradition of the craft printmaker. I see no separation between my skills as a technician and my creative ideas. My ambitions are modest: I offer space, escape and a sense of scale and season through my landscape prints. They are no specific depiction of [...]
Monique Borst My work is about paths of life. What life do you live? Living your life with happiness, mourning and loss makes life. Will you cover the experiences? Are you looking back before future comes? What ‘s your future? I’m looking for answers in my artworks. The process produces unique editions. [...]
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. For Jamie all printmaking comes from drawing, which he loves to do. He enjoys taking his love of line drawing and transforming it through the [...]
Jill Barneby Specializing in Fine Art Printmaking Jill works using old fashioned etching and screenprint often with elements of collage. Printing plates are prepared, drawn, inked and printed by the artist. Jill creates pieces which connect memory, history and emotion. Often using images of actual objects she creates a narrative by quite [...]
Sinclair Ashman My experiments with the collagraph printmaking technique yield interesting and often surprising results. I want to challenge perceptions of printmaking as an art form that produces editions of prints at relatively small sizes. Measuring up to 1 metre in length, my largely abstract and heavily textured images are unique prints, [...]
Debby Akam Woodcut prints combine textures and patterns derived from studies from Nature with saturated colour, and repeating motifs to suggest a mixture of things observed, imagined, and remembered. I sometimes integrate silkscreen techniques to include photographic images, and to allow an element of chance into the making process. These layered images [...]
The Printfest 2018 line up! Printfest Artists line up 2018 Gail Brodholt, Printmaker of the Year Georgina Bown, Printmakers’ Printmaker Debby Akam Sinclair Ashman Jill Barneby Jamie Barnes Monique Borst Laura Boswell Ann Bridges Stuart Brocklehurst Cath Brooke Adele Burdon Sarah Cemmick Henrietta Corbett Hester Cox Sarah du Feu Cathy Duncan Katie Edwards Janis [...]
The Selection Committee Meeting The Selection Process is complete! Emails have been sent out to everyone who applied today. The selection process has two stages: 1. The anonymous round ~ Each of the 10 judges receives a Pinterest link with a board titled ‘Selection Process 2018 - anonymous round’. They receive [...]
