Through illustrating mining heritage and communities of the North, Seanna’s work has been featured in The Guardian, Observer, and The Yorkshire Post Magazine. Coming from a family of folk musicians, Seanna grew up listening to and singing songs about mining, industrial strikes and other historical and social struggles. These created a vivid picture of working-class …
Matt Hooper is a self-taught professional linocut printmaker, working from his studio in Leeds. He makes linocut prints following both the traditional Japanese Woodblock style and more contemporary linocut methods, a reflection of his passions for both subjects. After 30 years in a Leeds printing factory, and witnessing the terrible waste this industry creates, Matt …
Paula creates detailed original hand-carved lino prints inspired by nature. Most of her work features trees and woodland landscapes. The strength of the timber, the delicate fragility of their foliage. The mossy textures of bark, the habitat and shelter they provide, the movement, the poetry of the sounds they make. She is captivated by this …
Zoë’s main objective is to create bold and colourful hand printed linocuts. Mark making with the use of pattern and texture are the key elements of her work. She predominately favours the multi block method using one block per colour to build up layers and depth within each print. However, recently she has experimented with …
Hazel is a printmaker living in Cornwall. Her work is inspired by the amazing landscapes around her. She works in reduction linocut from her own photographs. She hopes to make you look again and see the little things you may have missed.
Ditto Print creates bold screen printed furnishings and accessories drawing inspiration from industry and nature. Everything from drains, sticks, plants, grills to interesting stones, tree nuts and fungi are collected or documented to explore their shapes and patterns. Drawings are layered creating designs which are made into stencils and printed using water-based inks. Fabrics are …
The Owlery design, make and sell contemporary printed home and giftware for colour loving people. From statement home textiles and kitchenware to seasonal and everyday giftware. They specialise in surface pattern designs based around British Birds and nature, combing a love of the natural world with a love of interiors. Ben used his time in …
Becky creates fun and colourful illustrations and translates them into lino, screen and risograph prints and greeting cards.
The Print Lass screen-prints her bright, mid-century-inspired art and home accessories in her home studio in Oakworth, West Yorkshire. A lover of 1950s & 60s illustration and graphic design, her work often embraces the simple graphic shapes and textural hand-drawn elements of that period. She finds joy in exploring materials, folding and cutting papers to …
A multi-disciplinary printmaker, making mezzotint, wood engravings and linocut prints. He goes for a walk with a sketchbook and makes drawings of anything that he finds interesting, then back in the studio uses these sketches as the basis for his prints. His work is naturalistic and representational, in the tradition of British topographical landscape, influenced …