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Sybil Andrews
Sybil Andrews was born in Bury St Edmunds, England in 1898.  In the late 20’s she studied linocutting under Claude Flight at the Grosvenor School in London.  She was influenced by fellow student Cyril Power, with whom she later shared a workshop, and collaborated on commissions from the London Passenger Transport Board. Her work concerns the rhythms of human movement, exploring various sporting activities such as horseriding, football and motorbike racing. She immigrated to Canada in 1947 where she continued to teach and make art until her death in 1992. [more...]

Edward Bawden
Edward Bawden was born in Essex in 1903 and studied book illustration at the Royal College of Art where he was inspired by Paul Nash.  He also collaborated with Eric Ravilious on the Morley College mural. During World War II he produced many evocative watercolours as one of Britain’s official war artists. This set of giclee prints from the original woodcuts  features various London landmarks and is printed on Hahnemuller 100% cotton rag to the Fine Art Trade Guild Standards of Excellence. [more...]

Gail Brodholt
Gail Brodholt was born in South London and works full time as a printmaker from the Half Moon studio in Coldharbour Lane, situated in a converted grain barn, which she shares with four other printmakers, namely Susie Perring, Martin Ridgewell, Sonia Rollo and Louise Davies. Her work explores contemporary urban landscape, especially London’s transport network which is depicted using a subtle but rich palette. [more...]  

Paul Catherall
Paul Catherall was born in 1967 and trained as an illustrator at Leicester Polytechnic and has since become one of the UK's leading linocut printmakers. Using a clean and sharp palette inspired by commercial art of the 50's and 60's, he depicts various well-known landmarks from London, New York and Brighton, such as Tate Modern, Battersea Power Station, the Flatiron, Brooklyn Bridge and Brighton Pier. Commissions  include London Transport, British Airways London Eye, the Sunday Times and the Royal Mail. He displays an expert eye for composition and colour and great draughtsmanship, achieving ultimately a delicate balance between classic commercial design and contemporary urban landscape. [more...]

John Dilnot
After studying Graphic Design at Canterbury College of Art and gaining a degree in Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art in 1984, John Dilnot went on to study postgraduate printmaking at Camberwell, where he focused on screen printing and made his first artists' books and box works. He has had many solo shows in the U.K, in particular a touring show 'In the Country' which was originated by Southern Arts. He has received production awards from North West Arts Board and Southern and South East Arts. He has participated in the Chelsea Craft Fair, The London Artists Book Fair and the Small Publishers Fair. He sells his work through many outlets in this country and abroad, including The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the V & A Museum London.
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Jane Foster
Brighton based artist Jane Foster studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, and teaches the violin and piano part time, but she also has a passion for design from the 50’s and 60’s, and has a huge collection of fabrics from this period which she uses in her artwork. She divides her time between making items from vintage fabrics and screen printing textiles and prints. Her work is characterized by the use of bold colours and abstract geometric patterns, strongly influenced by Scandinavian design.  [more...] 

Jurgen Gorg
Jurgen Gorg was born in West Germany in 1951 and studied at the Johannes Guttenberg University in Mainz where he learned to draw with academic precision. He utilises both traditional methods of printmaking as well as drawing and sculpture.  His work continues the German tradition of figurative art with erotic overtones, and these etchings sensitively portray lovers, dancers and musicians, rendered with subtle shading and a soft monochromatic pallette. [more...]

Phil Greenwood
Phil Greenwood was born in 1943 in Dolgellau North Wales. He studied at Hornsey and Harrow Colleges of Art and has been a professional printmaker since 1971. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Printer-etchers in 1982, and has exhibited both nationally and internationally for the past 40 years, most notably at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tate. He is widely acknowledged as one of the country's leading printmakers, and is a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and the Bankside Gallery London. [more...]

Jonny Hannah
Jonny Hannah was born in Dumfermline and studied illustration at Liverpool Art School and the Royal College of Art. He graduated in 1998 and has since worked as a graphic  designer & illustrator for clients such as The Daily Telegraph and The New York Times.  He  creates screen printed books, posters and prints for his own Cake & Ale Press, winning 2nd place in the 2005 V&A Illustration Awards for  ‘Hot Jazz Special’ , a book of hot rhymes and bold poster-style art. [more...]

Jason Hicklin
Jason Hicklin was born in 1966 and studied at St. Martin’s, graduating from the Central School of Art in 1993, when he was appointed as a member of the Royal Society of Painters and Printmakers. He lectures in printmaking at the City and Guilds Art School in London, and has a studio in Montgomeryshire. His drawings, paintings and etchings are inspired by Britain’s rugged landscape and weather. The etchings featured here focus on London, including Battersea Power Station and Hammersmith Bridge. [more...]

Kim Jenkins
Kim’s work has a unique folk aesthetic and a positive spirit that counters much of the hard, shocking images in the world today. Born in Hull, she moved to London to study printmaking at Camberwell College of Art, where she has since taught.  She uses found objects such as reclaimed wood, stickers and paper cut outs, and utilises various techniques such as foil printing and screenprinting. Her inspiration comes from wildlife, especially birds and from her numerous bicycle trips abroad. In 2007 she featured in ‘Happy London’ a group exhibition at the Paul Smith ’SPACE’ gallery in Tokyo, and she also sells her own recycled bags and printed products to various shops including the RCA shop and the South Bank Centre. [more...]

Anna Marrow
Anna Marrow studied at Bristol specialising in printmaking. She loves to work with silkscreen because of the limitless variety of marks you can manipulate and make your own from bold splashes of colour to delicate drawn lines, scraps of text to photographic images.  Anna combines elements of drawing text and collage to convey the excitement and confusion of a day in the city.  Her most recent works have focused on ideas about the accelerated pace of our lives the random messages and commands we are bombarded with and the characters and creatures we encounter daily.  "I relish the chaos and diversity of modern urban living and try to capture this in my prints." [more...]

Simon Palmer
Simon Palmer studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Reigate School of Art where he was encouraged to pursue landscape painting. His quirky perspective and hidden narratives are quintessentially English, reminiscent of Stanley Spencer.  He has exhibited at the Royal Academy and was the ‘critics choice’ in the Independent in May 1995. He returned to the North of England where he grew up, after living and working in Kent for a while, and the scenery and people there remain a strong source of inspiration.[more...]

Howard Phipps
Howard Phipps is a painter, printmaker and illustrator with a special interest in wood engraving. He has a particular concern with the landscape, especially his own region where the chalk downs still retain a timeless quality reflecting his interest in atmosphere and sense of place. Howard is a member of The Royal West of England Academy and the Society of Wood Engravers. He has been a frequent exhibitor at R.A Summer Exhibitions where he was also awarded the Christie's Contemporary Print Award for a colour wood engraving.[more...]

Cyril Power
Cyril Edward Power was born in 1872 in Chelsea, London.  He worked in his father’s firm as an architect, and also lectured  at the School of Architecture, University College, London.  He married in 1904 and had four children. He served in the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 and after the war he continued his architectural practice and also began producing watercolour landscapes,  townscapes, and drypoints.  He helped to set up the Grosvenor School of Modern Art and collaborated with artist Sybil Andrews. An exhibition of lino cuts at the Redfern Gallery in 1929 resulted in a commission to design a series of posters for London Transport. During World War II he worked as a surveyor for a Heavy Rescue Squad, also lecturing on painting and linocutting.  In his later years he worked primarily in oils. He died in 1951. [more...] 

Trevor Price
Trevor Price studied printmaking at Falmouth School of Art and Winchester School of Art during the 1980's. Having obtained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art he then set up an etching studio in Southern Spain. He returned to England and was based in London for a short while before returning to Cornwall. His prints can be found in many collections throughout Europe and he has exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and Intaglio Printmakers. [more...]

Eric Ravilious
Eric Ravilious was born in 1903 and studied under Paul Nash at the Royal College of Art.  He was best known for his wood engravings and book illustrations, and was also a profilic watercolourist.  He also engraved glass and designed pottery for Wedgewood. He was appointed official war artist in 1939 and unfortunately was killed in a plane crash three years later whilst on a rescue mission off the coast of Iceland. In 2003 a major retrospective of his work was held at the Imperial War Museum. [more...]

Sonia Rollo
Sonia was born and brought up near Manchester. She attended the University of Glasgow graduating in 1968 with a degree in Botany. For several years Sonia worked as editor of a scientific journal and in 1985 began to study printmaking at Morley College. She has exhibited throughout the UK since 1993 and her work has proved particularly popular in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Sonia grew up surrounded by a selection of different animals including Hilary the pig who would let Sonia ride on her back. It is clear that the natural world still exerts an important influence on her work. [more...]

Charles Shearer
Charles Shearer was born in Kirkwall, Orkney in 1956 and studied at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen and at the Royal College of Art in London, specialising in illustration.  He divides his time between working on personal projects and teaching at various art schools.  His travels to Israel, the Middle East, Pakistan and India have been a source of inspiration for his drawings and prints, and more recently an interest in castles and ruins has taken him to Ireland. He regularly contributes images to the poetry and prose magazine ‘Ambit’ and has produced illustrations for several books by the late Orcadian poet and writer George Mackay Brown. [more...]

Richard Spare
Most of Richard’s painting derive from his travels or from aspects of domestic life. He recently designed a garden in his studio which has proved a rich source of inspiration and a starting point for much of his work. The velvety qualities of his work is achieved by using a drypoint etching technique with the inspiration for the vibrant colours coming from his travels to India and Nepal. Richard has exhibited widely both in the UK and abroad most recently his work has appeared in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. An experienced printer, he has editioned work for David Hockney and Howard Hodgkin, dividing his time between working for contemporary artists and his own work. [more...]

school prints
In 1946  two series of artworks were commisioned by School Prints Ltd. They were original hand-drawn colour lithographs editioned in large numbers to be sold cheaply to schools in order to bring the children into direct contact with real works of art. The artists that were approached  enthusiastically depicted a world of reassuring familiarity, nowhere is there any reference to the devastation of the war. The drawn frame around each picture meant it could be pinned directly to the classroom wall.  Some are of exceptional quality, especially the works by John Nash, John Tunnard, L.S. Lowry and Henry Moore. They epitomise the atmosphere of post-war optimism that culminated in the Festival of Britain. Now sixty years on, it is remarkable to find surviving original stock of these splendid prints. [more...]