PRINTMAKING

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I have always looked towards natural history for inspiration. During my degree course in Fine Art Printmaking, I became fascinated by bees and my interest has continued until this day. I get great satisfaction knowing that my artwork is helping spread awareness that bees are under threat from loss of habitat, as a result of modern farming methods and the decline of wild areas. Currently my subjects have broadened to include insects and birds.

Henry has exhibited at L’École des Beaux Arts and L’Orangerie in Paris; in London at the Royal Academy, Whitechapel Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Bankside Gallery and the Mall Galleries, and at public galleries in Bath, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Guildford, Leeds and art fairs in Manchester, Edinburgh and London.

He has also shown with the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Watercolour Society, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Royal Society of Marine Artists, the Pastel Society, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Society of Graphic Fine Art, the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers.

David Hunt is a contemporary representational artist whose work focuses on the natural world.

Born in Kent, UK in 1974, David is a self-taught artist who has been a full time, professional for the last 10 years. His route to art was via a somewhat circuitous route.  After studying Geology at UCL in London he went on to work in oil exploration mainly in Africa and Central Asia.  During this time he also completed a cabinet making qualification.  A few years later, David left the oil industry and set up his own workshop hand crafting bespoke furniture and Shepherd’s Huts.  After being injured by a hit and run driver in 2011, David turned to drawing more seriously during his recovery and began exhibiting and selling his work soon after.

I was born and brought up in the beautiful Lam valley in the village of Swainswick north of Bath. My early years were influenced by these surroundings designated an area of outstanding natural beauty.

Trained as a painter, and influenced by the Post impressionists, the Fauves, and 20th Century British artists. In the early 80’s, a desire to increase my repertoire of technical skills drew me to relief printmaking. The tactile task of cutting a block had a great appeal, and I went on to do two years post graduate training.

The majority of the colour images are created in natural light. The colour prints are a result of overlays of pure transparent colour, from light to dark; warm colours on one block, cool colours on another. I rarely print green; it is arrived at by overprinting yellows and oranges with transparent blue. Good registration is vital each edition is limited and cannot be repeated. I use Somerset Satin paper from St. Cuthbert’s Mill to print on and their pastel paper for the colour drawings.

Ian MacCulloch studied at Northampton School of Art. He exhibits regularly in the UK and abroad. His work is in many public and private collections. Ian works in a variety of printmaking techniques, but especially enjoys the graphic qualities presented by etching and woodcutting. His work can be seen in many galleries throughout the UK. Ian has also exhibited several times at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition as well as the RWS.

Ian's work encompasses a wide variety of subject matter, from animals to architecture and is realised in a variety of printmaking media. Other inspiration comes from the natural and manmade landscape often observed in the evening or early morning when the low sun reveals hidden texture and detail. Many of his prints are hand-coloured in order to increase vibrancy and atmosphere.

I was born and brought up in the beautiful Lam valley in the village of Swainswick north of Bath. My early years were influenced by these surroundings designated an area of outstanding natural beauty.

Trained as a painter, and influenced by the Post impressionists, the Fauves, and 20th Century British artists. In the early 80’s, a desire to increase my repertoire of technical skills drew me to relief printmaking. The tactile task of cutting a block had a great appeal, and I went on to do two years post graduate training.

The majority of the colour images are created in natural light. The colour prints are a result of overlays of pure transparent colour, from light to dark; warm colours on one block, cool colours on another. I rarely print green; it is arrived at by overprinting yellows and oranges with transparent blue. Good registration is vital each edition is limited and cannot be repeated. I use Somerset Satin paper from St. Cuthbert’s Mill to print on and their pastel paper for the colour drawings.

Sarah Ross-Thompson is a Fine Art Printmaker specialising in hand-inked, collagraph prints, originally inspired by the Dorset landscape. Relocating to the beautiful West Coast of Scotland in 2012, her new work has a slightly more rugged feel and sees a subtle shift in palette. The Dorset themes still continue.

Using carefully built collage blocks, her work combines the vibrant colours of oil-based printing inks with the textural qualities of the materials she uses. This combination produces a distinctive look that makes her work instantly recognisable.

Having experimented with a number of printmaking techniques Sarah now works almost exclusively through collagraphy. Experimentation with new materials such as chopped chives and oatmeal in conjunction with the more conventional string, kitchen salt and corrugated card, ensures that her work is constantly evolving.

Tom graduated in 2008 from the Graphics BA course at Brighton University winning the Gerald Dennis award for illustration and printmaking.

He is presently working at branding company Otherway London as Senoir Designer having previously worked at Antidote where he was responsible for the branding of the Sky Cycle Team and the Team GB lion logo. More recent work has involved the branding of Pizza Express and projects for Fortnum and Mason.

In 2011 he was asked to design a series of posters for a retrospective exhibition of Kenneth Grange at the London Design Museum. In the same year he was part of a collective that exhibited at the Pick Me Up graphic exhibition at Somerset House.

Inspiration for Tom’s work comes from images of anything electrical or mechanical mainly sourced from old technology books. The influencial ideas of Marshall McLuhan on media theory and the effect of new technology on society also providing inspiration.

John was born in Nottinghamshire, studying painting and graphic design at Nottingham College of Art in the 1960’s. 

He now lives in rural Warwickshire, just about as far from the sea as you can get. This doesn’t stop him from making frequent trips to the sea. In his paintings he likes his ships and boats to move and this effects how he gathers his reference material. His primary source being an extensive library of his own photographic images. This is added to whenever possible, often with no time for a sketch, but always with time for the camera to record. 

He has continued to be inspired over the last fifteen years by sail, ships and the sea. The breadth of his maritime imagery and experience is continually expanding, always believing that his next marine painting might be his best.

Sarah is an exciting young Manchester based illustrator and printmaker.

Notable clients include The Royal Opera House, Penguin Random House, The NHS, Reading University and Blusci Cambridge. 

Sarah says,
“I draw, collage, take pictures and print.
I have a sore thumb from cutting paper for hours.
There is ink under my fingernails.
I’ve always got bits of paper and random ephemera.
I like wearing my splattered apron, even if I don’t really need to.”

Works on show at A2 Gallery include monoprints with collage and embroidery based on The Exeter Book (the largest still-existing collection of Old English poetry and riddles. The Exeter Book has been dated to c. 975)