Drawing is central to my printmaking practice. I always begin with a drawing. Rough observational sketches to sort out composition and then a larger drawing to handle light and tone. Drypoint etching is my preferred medium of choice because it is about line and mark-making. I enjoy the way I can manipulate tone to [...]

My name is Babs Pease and I’m an artist/printmaker living and working in Perthshire, Scotland. I work in a variety of printmaking techniques but specialise mainly in the relief print method. Hand carving and printing lino, card and wood to create delicate single or multi block, limited edition prints. The focus of my work [...]

As a relief printmaker, I look for the moments of calm I find while immersed in the landscape, from mountains to the sea. Within my sketchbook I draw these memories, which I translate into tactile, layered prints back at the studio. The contemplative act of carving into wood is my direct conversation with these [...]

Evelyn’s work is deeply rooted in both materiality and concept, bridging the physicality of found objects with abstract interpretations of form and colour but this also overlaps with notions of excavation and the land. Her approach to printmaking—pushing beyond traditional methods—suggests an experimental and innovative practice, which is exciting given the historical weight of [...]

Rosanna Reade is a Northern Irish self-taught printmaker, living and working in Edinburgh. Working with linocut, she has a graphic and illustrative style. Her reduction prints use flat colour and pattern to create detailed imaginary rooms based on memories and storytelling. Narrative is a central theme to her work, building stories about everyday life, [...]

Exploring colour and form, and the possibilities for interaction between the two, form the core of my work. I experiment both with abstract forms, as well as the forms of everyday objects and how these might be deconstructed and re-assembled. Pattern, rhythm and repetition play an important part in my work. I produce works [...]

Rahil Sheikh learned to cut Lino in England and then China in the 1980s, working with socialist realist painters and printmakers working in the coal mining industry, Today he Creates large scale figurative Lino in the traditions of the great South African John Muafangejo and Canadian Naoka Matsuba both of whom emphasise a free [...]

The passion I have for printmaking comes from the endless possibilities created when I combine different mark making into the one image. Screenprinting enables me to create direct marks with ink, acrylic, pencil, pen and crayon onto separate films which I take into the screenprint process using opaque and transparent layers. www.skellydesigns.com [...]

My wood engravings celebrate the technique’s origins in book illustration. Story telling has been my career both in the theatre as a director and designer, and as a printmaker. My engravings are obsessively detailed, many are humorous, while others lead you gently through technique and imagery to deeper questions... My subject matter is diverse [...]

I focus on representations of the human form. Beginning with life drawings, I develop my images first by cutting and rearranging, and then throughout the platemaking and printing process. Rather than depicting specific individuals, my aim is to create images that resonate with human emotions. What I have always loved about printmaking is the [...]