Author: sheffieldprintmakers

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I have been doing linocuts for about five years. I don’t have a background in art, so it’s been really exciting building up a few skills in printmaking. In my first successful print I drew on scenes from Edward Lear’s nonsense poem The Pobble Who Has No Toes. During lockdown I made my niece a retelling of The Incy Wincy Spider, using linocut and collage techniques. 

I joined Sheffield Printmakers in 2021 and have learnt a lot from other members. This year I felt really inspired by the landscape around where I live, and I made a series of prints of the Heeley and Meersbrook Allotments. I love the colours and use of line in Edward Bawden’s work so spent some time studying his prints while I was working on my designs. 

I am a self-taught linocut, printmaker I love the process of printmaking, the physical labour of love when carving out designs and then the completely separate ‘wow’ moment of revealing the work in ink.

I am inspired by the city we live in, and spaces where the built environment collides and complements the natural world. I get inspiration from long walks as much as from galleries and books.

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I make books 3d forms and wall based artworks. I work freely with both techniques and with materials, cutting and layering of paper and synthetic alternatives to paper

I explore the tensions between hand drawn marks with the suggested computer drawn marks, and how hand applied colour – pigment, yarn, crayon or dye – and whether inlaid or overlaid, interacts with the inkjet printed colour. Further marks might be added after printing, by laser cutting, or by piercing and punching – marks which erupt through the paper.

Why books? Since the early 1990’s I have recorded my explorations of materials and of colour within the book form. These began with dye on cloth and paper, later digital image, printed on to experimental substrates, whether inkjet on paper collage or thermal transfer on synthetic, heat fused collage. Within the covers, the coloured dyes and pigments are preserved, protected from inevitable change.

A book might simply record my experience of place or time, or it might be somewhere I can ‘draw out’ a visual idea into a sequence, where each page is a fragment of the whole.

I have been exhibiting since the 1970’s, and internationally from 1992 and was awarded travel Burseries from the Arts council for several of these; China in 1997, Japan in 2002, Finland in 2005 and U.S. In 2007.

Recent exhibitions, in 2021/2022 have been Papier Global 5, Degendorf : Germany

The Third Shanghai international Paper Biennale, China and the Toyota paper exhibition, japan

Work represented in public and private Collections, includes Eureka College, Illinois; The Textile Museum, George Washington University, US (part of the Lloyd T. Cotsen collection); Carmelite Chapel of St Teresa of Avila, Beacon, New York Filac : International collection of Contemporary Artists Books (Marseilles); Neukoln Public Librar. Guiyang Museum, Guizhou, China. Rikhardinkatu Library, Helsinki, Finland; British Art Library, V&A;Bath Spa University Library;Leeds University, Brotherton Library

Email: calcs.prints@gmail.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calcs.prints/

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I have a passion for working with lino printing; rooted firmly in the processes involved with this art. I find the act of carving my blocks to be really cathartic – an action that simultaneously takes a lot of concentration whilst allowing space to be mindful and present due to the nature of the carving. The printing element offers a real “reveal” type of reward, and I often feel like my prints are a secret until I pull them from the block and see how they’ve turned out.

I’m printing from my home in Sheffield, and I use a baren to hand print my designs, which makes the journey feel incredibly personal.

I’ve found that music that I enjoy and landscapes that make me feel at home really inspire me to carve. I’ve printed a few bits and pieces for musicians, and it’s something I’d love to do more of in the future.

Visual artists that I admire include Kid Acne (who’s created some iconic pieces in Sheffield) and Error! Design (an artist that’s created some incredible designs for musicians).

I’m excited to be a part of Sheffield Printmakers and to continue to learn and develop as a printer.

Website – www.rezwanasarkar.com

Email – rezwana.farin@yahoo.co.uk

Instagram – @rezwanafarin 

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I am a Sheffield based visual and mixed media artist. I have graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in Fine Arts 2004.  I work with a variety of materials including encaustic wax, oils, acrylics in painting and mostly monoprints and collagraphs in printmaking. My works are mostly abstract and semi abstract paintings and prints which are derived from my personal experiences and feelings of certain places and nature.  

My work deals with nature and landscapes that are around me. I like to paint/print the vastness and then looking closely to the details of natural elements such as a leaf or a twig. Through my work and art practise I feel connected to the nature and feel rooted to ‘here and now’. My works are very expressive in nature. In printmaking I mostly do monoprints and collagraphs that are painterly in style. They are mostly abstract/semi abstract landscape paintings and or detailed botanical prints.

My process involves going for mindful walks or just be in a certain place. I then bring the feeling of the place along with photographs and sketches into my studio at the Exchange Place Studios and work intuitively with it. I also explore the notion of autotelic practises and bring for example leaves or twigs into my studio as if bringing a part of the nature with me in a tangible form and print from it.