Artist

Chardé Fabian

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
Circling Swifts, Chardé Fabian

Web: ecrucreate.wordpress.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/ecru_create/
Email: ecrucreate@gmail.com
Etsy Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/EcruCreateShop

Hi, I’m Chardé — a self-taught printmaker mainly working with lino and reduction lino. My work is inspired by my family, the natural world, and the strength and resilience of women.

I’m originally from Manchester, but after completing a BA in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam, I made Sheffield my home. I’m now based at Portland Works, where I have my studio and develop my printmaking practice.

I sell my work under the name Ecru Create, sharing my prints both locally and further afield.

Alongside my own practice, I also run workshops with two charities — Anomaly Arts Collective in Woodseats and Art+ at the Children’s Hospital.

Cherry-Mae Woodhead-Howse

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
Cherry-Mae Woodhead-Howse

Web: https://www.cmwh.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/curiouswoodland/
Email: curiouswoodland@outlook.com

Cherry-Mae Whitehead-Howse is a self taught printmaker with an MA in Creative Writing. After discovering linocut back in 2020, it has become her primary artistic outlet. Her work ranges from simple figures in modern or mythical settings to complex nature scenes with delicate creatures at their centre. Sometimes sadistic, sometimes tender, her prints explore themes of established narrative, childhood and the anxious struggles of daily life to create a broad collection of story driven artworks.

Rebecca Woodfield

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
Twosome, Rebecca Woodfield

I’ve been dabbling with printmaking in my free time for around three years now, beginning with drypoint etching and then moving to linocut prints. I use both nature and the built environment for subject matter, and am still experimenting with different styles. I especially enjoy the tactile nature of carving lino, as well as thinking through the technical constraints of the medium.

Lindy Furby

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
Lindy Furby

Email: Lindyfurby@gmail.com

Phone: 07929781933

Website: www.lindyfurby.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.

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 fascinating. 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.

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

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.

Cintia Stammers

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
Into the Forest, Cintia Stammers 2024

Web: https://cara.app/artcintia/all
Facebook: Art Cintia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cintiastammers/
Email: cintiastammersart@gmail.com

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.

Annetta Lambert

sheffieldprintmakers Artist
Annetta Lambert

Email: lambert137@btinternet.com

I started printing about six years ago, whilst in retirement, having always been interested in other aspects of art. I have throughout my life enjoyed painting, drawing and general crafting etc, but had never tried printmaking. I attended Peter York’s workshops for a couple of years where I mainly concentrated on lino print and intaglio with perspex plates. I really enjoyed both processes and found that cutting into a block or etching onto a perspex sheet very relaxing and calming.

I have recently started printing again at home, both intaglio and relief but using the old fashioned method of pressing with a small baren or a spoon. The results are very unpredictable but when I manage to pull a good print it is extremely rewarding and always great fun.

My prints tend to be inspired by my love of nature, in particular flowers. I also enjoy planning and executing abstract designs. The black and white abstract print below is one of the early lino prints that I did at Peter’s.

I am still exploring and enjoying all aspects of printmaking like colour, techniques, subjects etc. and have not developed a particular style.