Artist

Lindy Furby

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
Lindy Furby

Contact details

email: Lindyfurby@gmail.com

Phone: 07929781933

Website: Lindy.furby.co.uk (I can be contacted through my website)

I have been a lifelong lover of the outdoor landscape. I have climbed, walked, camped, skied up and down,kayaked and swam, engaging with and enjoying the landscape in physically active ways.

My artwork is just a continuation of this. I engage with the landscape this time by sitting still, looking, contemplating and finally mark making- usually water colour sketches. This behaviour burns the landscape into my brain in a way that taking a photograph cannot. When I return home I revisit the sketches and transfer the images to collagraph plates and print the landscapes I have experienced. In a very real way I revisit the landscape and remember it: my artwork attaches me to the landscape and I remember it; like an invisible umbilical cord.

By selling my work, I offer others who might not have the time or inclination to make art, the opportunity to revisit their favoured landscapes in their own homes; they share my experience.

S.J. Cooper-Knock

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
S.J. Cooper-Knock

S.J. Cooper-Knock returned to art, music and poetry several years ago. Their work ranges from immature puns to protest art, and from nature to urban areas.

They share their work on instagram, using @rebellion.knoll for their printmaking and @hope and rebellion for their digital artwork.

Mark Dixey

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
Mark Dixey

Contact. Mark@Hilly-fields.net

Hi. My name is Mark Dixey. I originally come from Leicester. The Leicester museum has a good collection of German Expressionist paintings and prints. Back then I found them facinatings. This is definitely the biggest influence on my style and choice of media.

The challenge of creating an image that moves in some way is what drives me to work the way I do. Disciplined and minimal. I have no formal training and tend to produce what I find pleasing, challenging, and hopefully saying something to the viewer.

John Rollin

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
John Rollin

Contact. j.rollin@talk21.com

John is a new member of Sheffield Printmakers.

Matthew Ford

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
Matthew Ford

Having not done anything artistic since High School, during the first Covid lockdown we started a ‘friends and family’ art contest. I found myself drawn to the graphic qualities of printed images, and began Linocut printing in 2021. It’s still very much a hobby, but I’ve enjoyed making prints for friends and family as gifts for friends and family.

Jennie Merriman

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
Jennie Merriman

I started printmaking in 2014 and really enjoyed the challenge and process of lino and collagraph printing. There are so many ways to make a plate or add a ground, it is always exciting. I enjoy taking a mixed media approach, particularly with collagraph printing. I have had quite a long break from the work but now have my old press back and am ready to get going again with a lot of help from friends.I enjoy the camaraderie and the ‘making together’ of printmakers and have recently renovated an old engineering workshop in my garden. It is now set up as a printmaking workshop both for myself and as a community resource for workshops and as a drop in centre. The space can also be used as a gallery for exhibiting work.

It is early days yet but since September we have had some very lively sessions both with new and experienced printmakers. I have also recently rejoined Sheffield Printmakers and am looking forward to exhibitingwork with them again.

Jennie Merriman. 09. 11. 2023

Zena Farel

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
Zena Farel

Contact Details

Email. zena@zenafarelgallery.co.uk

Website. www.farel.co.uk

Non commission website. Free for international women artists. www.voltagallery.co.uk

Instagram. #northwind365

Facebook. Volta Art by Women

I create monotypes and monoprints using acrylic on paper and work quickly, always with a firm idea of what I want to produce, but I prefer not to plan an image in advance. I like the exhilaration of producing work in such a necessarily imprecise way and always welcome the resulting surprises and discoveries. I’m exploring, and expressing remembered feelings and experiences, rather than the immediate world around me.

I lived very close to the North Devon coast for four years and in Valencia for two years before that, and both the sea and the flamboyant, energetic colours of Valencia appear in my work. At the moment, I live in the North East and have also produced newer, more muted forms connected to woodland walks and the huge skies of County Durham.

Christine Jones

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
Christine Jones

Email. Christinejones.printnewt@gmail.com

Website https://christinejonesprintmaker.co.uk

Folksy shop link https://folksy.com/shops/christinejonesprintmaker

Instagram @christinejonesprintmaker

I am a Derbyshire based printmaker, living in a small village that has always been my home. I have a small print room at the bottom of my garden which houses an hand built etching press lovingly made by my husband.

I fell in love with the printmaking process whilst studying Art @Design over 20 years ago, and continued to build up my knowledge through self learning, books and specialised courses. Whenever time and commitments allowed I would make prints.

Since giving up work to pursue my passion for printmaking I have exhibited and sold my work at fairs, art trails group exhibitions and galleries. I love what I do and being part of a creative community.

I am inspired by the everyday, textures, patterns, the way the light falls and the drama and shadows it creates. The stories and memories objects can evoke and my love of the printmaking process also inspire me. I don’t feel compelled to follow a strict path and can veer off if a subject interests or speaks to me.

Tracy Litterick

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
Tracy Litterick

Email. tracylitterick @gmail.com

Although I have a Fine Art degree I then worked primarily with photography and film, discovering printmaking some years after graduating and retraining to become a Homeopath and subsequently studying Therapeutic Shamanism.

My prints, therefore, explore my inner landscape and Shamanic realms behind this ordinary reality. Inspiration comes from the Stone, Plant, Standing, Animal and Human peoples and is part of my healing process. My imagery touches on aspects of Soul Loss and Retrieval, Ancestral Healing, Power Animals, the Medicine Wheel and Shapeshifting that emerge from Shamanic Journeying.

Printmaking embraces these experiences and becomes almost a meditation process which cannot be rushed or forced but results in outcomes often unexpected, helping wounded parts tell their stories, through hands, feeling and touching, being guided by intuition.

Cintia Stammers

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
Cintia Stammers

I have been experimenting with printmaking for many years, in particular with collagraphs, dry point and monographs.

I moved to Sheffield in 2022 and have continued with my interest in representing nature. Here, instead of mountains and the sea, I have returned to trees as my main subject. The idea of sustainable art appeals to me. I have used driftwood both as a ground and as a printing plate, and I sometimes print on homemade recycled paper.

After finishing school in Sao Paulo, Brazil, I went to art college for two years and also studied printmaking and painting at the studio of Loi Portinari’s. Later, I qualified as an English teacher, and Art became a privilege, a hobby, but I never stopped drawing and painting when time allowed. Later still, I attended an art and design course offered by the University of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. I was also a member of the Portree Printmakers group.

I have taken part in exhibitions in Brazil, London, Essex, Brighton and Portree, on Skye.