Author: sheffieldprintmakers

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My introduction to printmaking was through etching many years ago but I have recently returned to it via linocut. I enjoy the mindful process of cutting the lino and rolling the ink. 

I have recently joined Sheffield Printmakers as i would like to meet others who also enjoy printmaking and hopefully learn from their knowledge and experience. 

I would like to expand my techniques into other areas, the textures of collagraph are interesting me at the moment.  The inspiration for my images has mainly been nature but I would like to try larger images of landscapes and cityscapes. 

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I am inspired by storytelling that can be both imaginative and influenced by real life stories/events.

They are colourful, imaginative and expressive. I produce both figurative and abstract work, which are often inspired by nature. In my subjects of nature, I am also interested in animals and their relationships to nature and the flora and fauna that co-exist.

I use a variety of techniques such as dry point, monoprint, collagraph, linocut. Exploring different printmaking techniques offers the possibilities of creating expressive images. 

I often combine dry point and monotype techniques and use a painterly approach to applying the colours.

Email: speenoch@yahoo.co.uk

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Sheffield is the adopted home of contemporary painter and printmaker Alex McArthur and where she has established her art practice in
drawing, painting and printmaking. Skies, trees and water have inspired her for as long as she can remember. Her favourite printmaking technique is monotype, for the spontaneity and experimentation it allows and for the surprises in colour form and texture that it engenders.
Alex’s paintings and prints are where memories and imagination merge in wide open spaces and the natural world. Strong contrasts are present in her work; stillness and movement, space and restriction, colour and monochrome, form and abstraction. Alex has exhibited her work at home and abroad and early in 2020 had her first solo show. Some of her prints can be viewed at All Good Stuff, 72 Arundel Street, Sheffield.

Email: jeanbrookes26@gmail.com

Since retiring from teaching Science, I have taken up printmaking and have spent a few years working at Peter York’s workshop exploring colour and shape. On the whole I have been using the intaglio technique with dry-point card to produce a variety of abstract prints. Given my scientific background, many of these prints have been based on biological themes. E.g. mycelium, cell structure and crystalisation. Recently while still keeping an abstract and impressionistic feel, I have been exploring ways of producing prints about more immediately recognisable subjects. My inspiration for these comes from my interest in walking in the countryside. My prints of coastal, agricultural and mountainous scenes are examples of this.

Recently, in 2023, I have begun to learn linoprinting.

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Most of my printmaking is developed from sketches made on walks around the Sheffield area, my work is inspired by nature, experimenting with both colour and texture. I often overprint my images with the base created from either plaster plates or mono-prints textured by pressed leaves, grasses, flowers and seed heads or using chine-colle tissue paper coloured up with printing inks. The top images are generally from Lino-cuts or drypoint or re-using the base image in another direction. Other images have been formed using intaglio printing on a parcel tape etched plate. These methods are all very exciting because it is impossible to determine exactly how the final print will look.

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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.