Dorothy Ramsey

My training 57 years ago at Camberwell school of art was traditional. Over the years I have freed up and work in a more spontaneous methods. Latterly drawing directly on to the plate with wax crayon and just sticking into the acid. This captures the spontaneity of drawing. I often hand colour my work making each print different to it’s neighbour. As I get older I rarely make more than three in an addition, before moving on to the next experiment. As I do not want many prints it allows me to use polystyrene, which has softer qualities than a traditional plate,  and is a lot cheaper  allowing one to take more risks. Using a base of a wood cut and adding the polystyrene I can print both at once using two different colours. In my last few years I hope to be even  more playful.

Debby Akam

Debby works with woodcut prints, screen prints and video to engage with particular places and spaces, often using the device of a journey or passage through a landscape.

“I use saturated colour, and repeating motifs to suggest a mixture of things observed, imagined, and remembered in layered images that invite multiple readings, and allow an element of chance into the making process. Silkscreen is sometimes combined with the gestural marks of woodcut blocks to juxtapose the immediate experience of making the print with an event captured in a photograph.”