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 and expressive cut technique. In 2026, he is focusing on reworkings of c15th/16th religious art compositions, seeking to improve graphic clarity within intense and spontaneous freeform cutting patterns. At Printfest 2026 he is debuting two such works on an exceptional scale.