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 [...]