Gallery
Kim Major-George
Kim Major-George is the President & founder member of the BBH Print Society. Kim’s fascination with texture and printmaking comes on the back of a long journey which started at Design college in the early 70s. After graduating, her career has spanned over 30 years ranging from surface pattern designing for the gift industry, teaching Art and Design, to book illustrating in the 90’s, with many of her evocative dream imageries, angels, unicorns being commercially produced for the Mind Body and Spirit industry.Following her own personal journey and as a professional artist, Kim has been specializing in spiritual iconography, mythology and early esoteric imagery. Her printing has developed a very distinctive style with her collagraphs becoming known for the method of marrying different textures on her plates and different materials on the printed image. Kim has no problem breaking the rules and delights in creating striking images using the technique of blind embossed with heavy, 600 gram paper coupled with textured materials like tarnished metal, soluble fibres , precious metals and iridescent threads. This cohesive methods is a very exciting departure in printing and is an area she has explored in depth in her book entitled ‘Collagraph, a journey through texture’ which is due out in January 2011.
Kim has set up the BBH Print Society and invited Helen Boden and David Borrington, established traditional print makers to join her in creating a modern contemporary print society with a different. She hopes this new print society will appeal to traditional print makers and artist/ printmaker, who use traditional print methods in their work.
Professional services available :
Selection of workshops held at fully equipped studio – Spring – Summer – Autumn
Whole school or selective year group print experiences.
Contact :
Redshanks Studio,
West Street,
Lilley,
Herts LU2 8LH
Tel: 01462-769024
Email: kim@majorgeorge.co.uk
Website: www.majorgeorge.co.uk
David Borrington MA RCA
I am the director of Dekkle Printmaking Studios Ltd. We produce limited edition etchings and prints and teach printmaking to all abilities. My artwork is all about political current affairs from the corruption of politics to human rights.
Fortunately I am severely dyslexic with the reading age of a six-year-old; therefore I have been brought up naturally not to believe the written word and missing all the propaganda which is given out over television, the Internet and newspapers. I use historic, iconic objects with important symbolism from Big Ben to nations flags, old and new.
Professional services available :
Print courses – etching, dry point, lino cut, aquatint
Summer workshop in Austria
Editions printing
Contact :
Dekkle Printmaking Studios Ltd
2 Bell Row
High Street
Baldock
Herts
SG7 6AP
Tel : 01462-490501
Email : david@dekkle.com
Website : www.dekkle.com
Helen Boden MA
After a fine art degree at Coventry University, Helen Boden studied an MA at Chelsea School of Art. Following two residencies and a teaching position, Helen became a master printer for Brenda Hartill for four years before leaving to have two children.
In 2008 Helen set up Bodenpress which is a traditional printmaking studio set in an old engineering building in Chesham Bucks. There are two presses and excellent facilities for etching, aquatint and collagraphs. A dark room is available for photo etching. Courses in colour printing, relief and intaglio techniques are regularly scheduled. Once proficient, print sessions are offered, allowing collaboration with other printmakers working in various techniques. Bodenpress specialises in small numbers and an inspiring, friendly environment.
The studio is open to the public in the last two weeks of June, as part of the Bucks Open Studios.
Professional services available :
Printmaking facilities
Print courses – collagraph, dry point, aquatint, lino cut
One-to-one tuition
Contact :
Bodenpress
Unit 3 Pentagon Place
Berkhamstead Road
Chesham
Bucks
Tel : 07792 785782
Email : helen@bodenpress.co.uk
Website : www.bodenpress.co.uk
Annette Sykes
Drawing & painting since childhood, then college, I began work as a screenprint designer. Family followed, then returning to college studying textiles. Re-introduced to printmaking, my work now incorporates print, paint & stitch. Exhibitions include Birdscapes, Norfolk; The Mall & Bankside Gallery in June 2010
Contact No : 01933623706
Email : annettesykes@fsmail.net
Website: www.printmakerscouncil.com
Michaela Matza
I am interested in combining my collagraphs with my passion fro textiles and am currently experimenting with printing onto fabrics and then stitching into them
Contact No : 01494 726929
Email : mamatza@mac.com
Christine Calow
I create vibrant, colourful screenprints in limited editions and collages incorporating my prints. Screenprinting enables me to experiment with bold and expressive colour combinations and textures. My inspiration is derived from my travels, in particular to India and, more recently, to Greece.
Email : christinecalow@btinternet.com
Website: www.christinecalow.co.uk
Anne Hutchings
I specialise in hand pulled limited edition lino prints. The inspiration for my work is mostly drawn from Celtic and medieval sources, including manmade artifacts and their place in Nature.
Contact : 0208 882 3262
Wendy Bird
I studied lithography under Henry Trivick RA at Amersham College of Art and intaglio techniques under Marta Montcada at her studio in Barcelona. I have been exhibiting for 30 years.
Email : bird.wendy@btinternet.com
Hilary Sussum
I am primarily making sculpture and I hope to incorporate printmaking into this work.
Contact : 01494 771708
Email : hilarysussum@googlemail.comet.com
June Hinton
With a lifetime interest in prints, I started printmaking at Amersham College. I now have my own press and also join Boden Studios from time to time. I am mainly interested in linocuts, collagraphs and drypoint and occasionally monoprints.
Email : junehinton@btopenworld.com
Ann Burnham
I studied Graphic Arts at Harrow College of Art. My love of etchings inspired me to join a regular printmaking workshop at Amersham College to learn printmaking techniques. My subject matter is often abstract or graphic, but based on observed patterns of light & shadow, contrast and texture while my concern with composition, harmony and balance probably reflects my graphics background.Contact : 07091 767595
Email : ann@aburnham.co.uk
Website : www.annburnham.com
Diana Ashdown
I explore texture, line and intricate pattern in the observed and imagined works that I create, they reflect my interest in nature, landscape and garden. I overlay colours using stencils like painting with watercolours. I aim for images that are uplifting and intriguing.
Email : diana.ashdown@gmail.com
Lucie Green
I produce relief wood and linocuts with inspiration from everyday objects and from extensive travel in Asia. Recent exhibitions have included The Society of Wood Engravers and “Pushing Print” in Margate.
Email : lucie green@btinternet.com
Website : www.lucie-green.co.uk
Paul Gale MA
Etching, linocuts, monoprints, printmaking teaching
Contact : thegales102@tiscali.co.uk
Claire Reaney
I fell in love with printmking at University as a mature student. I have since specialised in collagraph, inspired by Kim Major-George and a recent course in Italy. My passion is landscapes but I also enjoy more abstract designs.
Email : clairereaney@hotmail.com
Laura Boswell
I specialise in linocut and, following a residency in Japan, water based woodblock printing. My work focuses on landscape with an emphasis on form & colour, weather and season. I teach workshops in both disciplines in my studio and as a travelling tutor.
Email : laura@lauraboswell.co.uk
Website : www.lauraboswell.co.uk
Kim Raymont
Modern designs using traditional techniques. Typographic artwork made with linoprint, screenprinting and letterpress. See my website for sales, commissions, exhibitions and workshops.
Email : kimraymont@yahoo.co.uk
Website : www.somethingwonderfuldesign.co.uk
Jo Spyropoulos
Trained as a painter at Camberwell, I have been printmaking for 20 years. Inspired by the power of landscape to move the human spirit, I work in oils, watercolour and print. Although a natural observer, print techniques allow me the spontaneity I find most satisfying.
Email : jospyro@hotmail.co.uk
Website : www.jospyropoulos.co.uk
Ann Smith
Collagraph
Email : balley@tiscali.co.uk
Marian Carter
I am inspired by the natural world especially animals, birds, fish and marine life. I aim to produce images that reflect the happiness and beauty I find in nature using printmaking techniques, mainly collagraph and reduction lino cuts.
Contact : 01494 791582, Mobile 07941 125518
Email: marian.carter@rebelam.co.uk
Helen Brooks
I make limited edition linocut prints, often using birds or animals as the subject matter or taking inspiration from literary sources. Some work is monochrome; other work has layers of translucent colour.
Email : helenelizabethbrooks@talktalk.net
Website : www.silkententprints.etsy.com
Frances Bugg
Details of patterns in the landscape, the colours, atmosphere, light, weather and season. The shapes and colours of plants and flowers are also a growing interest.
Contact : 07711 – 724146
Email : fran572@btinternet.com
Liz Burnett
Printmaking to me is another form of painting, but one which offers extraordinary possibilities. My current work mainly uses the mon-type technique to make hand made one-off unique prints, both figurative and abstract.
Email: lizburnettart@btinternet.com
Krysia Michna-Nowak
Mono printing, enhanced mono-prints, giclee prints.
Contact : 01462 893983
Email : art@krysianowak.co.uk
Website: www.krysianowak.co.uk
Lynn Allen
Lino, collagraphs, drypoint, monoprint, mixed media designs inspired by the patterns and shapes found in landscape, everyday objects and the human form.
Contact : 01442 267525
Helen Halliday
Helen Halliday is a painter , printmaker amd ceramicist. Her work is vibrant and energetic, and is informed by regular research trips to Cornwall and Dorset. She runs painting holidays in Lulworth Cove.
Contact: hhalliday321@btinternet.com
Christine Phillips
With a degree in Graphic Design at Hornsey College, I have been printmaking in a variety of media since the 1980′s. I now specialise in reduction lino prints, inspired by the natural world. I am excited by patterns, shape and colour found in nature.
Contact : caphilly@btinternet.com
Ruth Rickwood
Inspired by a love of gardening and rural East Anglian landscapes and traditions, my work is hugely varied in content, style and scale, from intimate books and boxes to large printed textile collages.
Contact : rrart1@ntlworld.com
Website : http://ruthrickwood.carbonmade.com
Anthony Millard
I am a printmaker specialising in relief prints and lithographs.
Contact : 01582 715699
Email : millard10@btinternet.com
Alina Congreve
My printmaking interests are etching and aquatints
Email : alina@congreve.prestel.co.uk
Rosie Rigg
AS a current Artist in Residence at Luton Hoo Walled Garden, wy work consists of collagraphs that use the tactile embossed surface of found materials. My ideas emanate from location drawing, daily life and a collection of visual and physical experiences that culminate in prints that evoke memories and emotions.
Email : rosierigg@hotmail.com
Chris Collins
I am currently undertaking collagraph produced prints inspired by underwater seascapes and images from Southern Africa.
Email : chris@thecollinses.co.uk
Katherine Thorn
I trained as a photojournalist at London College of Printing. After starting a family in 2006, I discovered the beauty of photo etching and solar plate which took my work in a new and exciting direction. The unique qualitities of solar plate allow me to create the dark atmospheric prints that I love and to transform the photographic image into a different art form
Email : katherinethorn@hotmail.com
Bernie Grist
I work as a printmaker at Bodenpress, Chesham and sold several prints during the Bucks Open Studios exhibition. My current interest is collagraph, in particular, with chine colle.
Email : berniegrist@hotmail.com
Anna Pye
I produce prints using a variety of techniques, my favourite being lino cuts. My work is inspired by the countryside, nature, maps and everyday objects and life. I print at the Curwen.
Contact : 01763 852110
Email : anna@thewalnuthouse.freeserve.co.uk
Erika Wengenroth
For me, printmaking is about experimenting with textures, colour and line. Attending regular workshops and with my own printing press, I create monoprints and collagraphs of mainly landscapes and abstracts.
Email : info@erikawengenroth.com
Website : www.erikawengenroth.com
Kate Heiss
I studied Textile Design at BNU and the RCA and printmaking at the Curwen. Driven by my love of textiles, I draw inspiration from florals, geometric patterns and bold colours to create prints from a variety of media including Linocut, Chine Colle and Screenprint.
Email : kate.heiss@gmail.com
Website: www.kateheiss.com
Jennifer Smith
I specialise in Collagraph and Drypoint printmaking. My work is dynamic and often abstract, inspired by moods and travel. My training in fashion design has influenced the coloured, illustrative nature of my prints and their emphasis on texture.
Email : jen@jennifersmithprints.co.uk
Website : www.jennifersmithprints.co.uk