The Norwich Print Fair
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I am primarily a printmaker experimenting and devising different print techniques with lino, collagraph and eco prints, exploring texture and colour combinations. I use both surfaces (intaglio and relief) of the lino or collagraph matrix for focal depth, overlaying sympathetic colours to bring my ideas to fruition. A starting point for this work was finding […]
We are delighted to announce our inaugural prize for Emerging Print Maker 2025 goes to Maisy Aykroyd a Norwich/Cambridge based botanical artist who graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Norwich University of the Arts in summer 2025. Her work features vulnerable and emotive themes including love, grief, commemoration, personal heritage & loss. Inspired […]
I studied painting and printmaking at Hull College of Art and London University in the early 1960s. Later I taught etching, screen-printing, linocut and related surface printmaking at Keswick Hall College in Norfolk. I moved to the University of East Anglia where I continued teaching in the School of Education until 2006. I am based […]
The inspiration for my work comes from the natural world around me. I am very much an amateur naturalist as well as an artist. In fact for me the two go hand in hand. It is my passion for wildlife that makes me want to capture it on paper while the artist in me wants […]
I am a painter and printmaker and have worked as a freelance artist since leaving Dyfed College of Art in 1985, after studying Wildlife Illustration. Living on the beautiful East Anglian Coastline I am surrounded by constant source inspiration for my artwork. I have always printed and in more recent years it has become a […]
I produce my prints using a variety of techniques including drypoint, linocut and monoprinting. I enjoy experimenting and will sometimes use a mixture of techniques and media to produce the finished work. As well as the birds and animals that visit my small garden, I take inspiration from the scenery and wildlife I encounter on […]
I have been a practicing printmaker working from my studio in Norfolk for over 25 years. During my degree course in Fine Art, I became fascinated by bees and my interest has continued until this day. I get great satisfaction knowing my artwork is generating awareness for the importance of bees and in 2019 I […]
My print work is informed by my use of mixed media, the discipline I have been working in for over a decade. My interpretation of collograph printing is to conjure up the essence of a world controlled by cogs and gears, and the sense of fluid movement I see when I work with the printmaking […]
I am a scientist – specifically a plant evolutionary geneticist – working at the John Innes Centre. Thus art is a hobby for me, but it is one that I love and thrive from. I have always loved drawing and illustration, but I started etching in July 2017. This has opened a whole new world […]
Paul Bommer is a graduate of the National College of Art & Design in Dublin. Originally from London, He now works from his studio in Aylsham, Norfolk. Paul’s work is informed by an irreverent sense of humour and a love of character, history and deft line-work.
I work in relief print using the traditional techniques of wood engraving and woodcut. My practice explores the landscape narrative of the North Norfolk coast near my home, drawing on a personal connection to these places. More recently, larger woodcuts have returned to my work following the purchase of a larger Albion Printing Press last […]
I graduated from Norwich School of Art and Design in 2003 and went into digital illustration as well as working part time in secondary education. It was in 2006 that I first learned about the process of collagraphy and was instantly hooked! Later I reinvented my computer-based illustration skills in the form of pattern design […]
After finishing my A level art exam over 40 years ago, I didn’t pick up a brush, paintbox or pencil until I took early retirement from primary school teaching 10 years ago. I became particularly interested in botanical painting in both watercolour and pencil. I was introduced to wood engraving when I went to an […]
My creative practice uncovers and captures the detail hidden in English Civil War locations through screen-prints, showing the landscapes palimpsest, and revealing the disappearing past held within the land. As a life-long historical re-enactor, historical research has been central to my practice, with an investigation of the way in which my involvement in the Sealed Knot Society has influenced the […]
I graduated from the Norwich School of Art and Design in 1997 and have been working as a professional artist and illustrator since then. My clients include Norwich Union, The Museums’Association, Macmillan Publishers, Hodder and Stoughton Children’s Books and Which. More recently I have been commissioned by the Lynn Museum to provide large linocut illustrations […]
I studied printed textiles at Middlesex University in London, specialising in designs for furnishing fabrics and wallpapers and have sold my dress fabrics in London, New York and Japan. My furnishing fabric clients include Libertys, Colefax and Fowler,John Lewis and G.P.and J Baker. I am currently creating one off screen prints onto collaged grounds and […]
I originally studied textile design at Winchester School of Art and worked in the fashion industry for many years. More recently I developed an interest in printmaking which resulted in an MA from Camberwell College of Arts, graduating in 2001. My recent linoprints are concerned with the juxtaposition of colour, deliberate pattern and composition and […]
Hailing from London and studying Games art & Animation at Norwich School of Art and Design: I have settled in Norwich and now illustrate and print from my garden studio alongside my Schnauzer companion, Alfie. I have been making prints for around 10 years. Drawing is my passion and I love the screen printing process. This […]
I was born in 1946 in Skegness, Lincolnshire I trained as a painter / printmaker at Hastings school of art and the City and Guilds of London Art School. At Hastings I was introduced to wood engraving by tutor Michael Renton and was attracted to the precise craft having previously been a cartographer with a […]
I was educated at St. Martin’s School of Art where I studied illustration and fabric design. After graduating I worked in advertising and as a free-lance illustrator working mainly for educational publications. I began etching about fifteen year’s ago after attending a printmaking course at Suffolk College. As an illustrator the majority of my work […]
For most of my career I have worked in partnership with my husband as an illustrator. I joined a printmaking class to learn the intricacies of etching and the graphic qualities of Lino printing. Once I had gained experience of the various techniques I was able to explore my own ideas. I have always had […]
My passion for etching originates from initially studying under the tutelage of my father, a traditional and prolific etcher. Later I studied at Ipswich Art School and then at Goldsmiths College London. Having travelled extensively with my family throughout Europe and Australia, working predominantly in pen and ink on a variety of projects including design […]
I am a printmaker and illustrator based in Suffolk who has a fascination with the sights and rhythms of our natural world & especially mountain landscapes. My prints are created in my studio using linocut, monoprint and letterpress techniques on my vintage Vandercook printing press, affectionately known as Vincent.
Sally’s monoprints are created from remembered impressions caught during regular walks as well as water colour studies. Her prints capture intricate hedgerows, ancient forests’ winding pathways, patterned fields coastline and waterways recorded throughout the seasons. The images are concerned with intervals of light and visual sensation. Each monoprint is a unique image printed on heavy […]
I’m an artist and printmaker/based in Norwich. My work explores the built environment and how we respond the places and spaces we encounter. Architecture plays a prominent role in my work. The juxtaposition of differing built structures and the shadows they cast in their relationship to each other, is an endless source of fascination. More […]
I graduated in Graphic Design from Colchester School of Art and Design in 2012, where I developed a particular interest in printmaking. For the past five years, I have been developing my personal screen printing project ‘Little Fox Press’, whilst also working as a freelance Graphic Designer. Now living and working in Suffolk, the inspiration […]
My work is an emotional response to my own life experiences – a remembered moment, an emotion or an idea – translated into the visual. Using different print processes, I work in both abstract and representational genres. My large abstract silkscreen works are a non-ironic poetic aesthetic – an exploration of what we feel, perceive […]
My work has always reflected where I live, places I visit and journeys I embark upon. The texture, architecture, signage and structures of each new environment dictate the development of my artwork. My prints incorporate a range of techniques including collagraphy, carborundum, monoprinting and relief printing. I describe myself as an experimental artist. For me […]
Graphic Design is my first love and Illustration has followed. I’m a graphic designer, illustrator, author, screen printer and gocco printer.
I have been linocutting for over 70 years, having cut my first block in my last term at school. Arriving at Norwich Art School, the wood engraver Geoffrey Wales looked at that print and pronounced that I would study linocutting as a craft. With those few words, he mapped out my artistic life. On leaving […]
I graduated as a mature student from Norwich University of the Arts in 2014, with a 1st class BA in Illustration. This is where I discovered and fell in love with print. It was a pivotal moment in my creative world which defined my illustration career. All my prints start from one of my hand […]
I am a Norwich based designer and printmaker trading under the name Printer Johnson. I have a background in textile design and take my inspiration from flora, fauna and folklore and enjoy bright colour combinations and overlays. I specialise in design for screen printing and Risograph and use these processes to produce the majority of […]
I am an artist living in North Norfolk. I graduated in Fine Art at Norwich University College of the Arts in 2010. ‘I walk and I collect artefacts, fragments and samples, my work is an exploration and categorization of these found pieces.’ The North Norfolk coastline is a frequent source of inspiration for my work. […]
I am both a painter and printmaker. My prints are mostly but not exclusively topographical. I have made a large number of prints of historic buildings in Norfolk and Suffolk. I am particularly interested in history and the way that traces of the past may still be found in even the most modern city-scape. In […]
I originally studied textile design and worked in a design studio producing surface pattern designs for the fashion industry in London. Since then I moved to North Norfolk and after a time caring for my children studied illustration at NUA graduating in 2014, specializing in printmaking especially lino cut. My inspiration comes from history especially […]
I worked as an environmental scientist and teacher before moving into printmaking in 2013. As a printmaker I am fascinated by weathered surfaces and the stories they tell of their interaction with people, landscape and the elements. I use these textured surfaces as inspiration for my collaged printing plates which are then used in an […]
I grew up in Oxfordshire and trained as an illustrator in Brighton, graduating in 1990. Observational drawing has always been at the core of what I do, whether it is illustrating, painting or printmaking. My linocuts are intricately carved and multi-layered and are printed using a Harry F Rochat Albion Press in my studio in […]
I create limited edition handmade linocuts from my studio at the end of my garden. My designs evolve from observational drawings and photographs from my trips out in the countryside and coastline of East Anglia. Generally, they will be quite rural – either woodland, coastal scenes, rivers, streams, country lanes or paths alongside fields. I try […]
My Practice explores the relationship between, and in particular, clothing with a collective conscience, formed by social histories and personal attachment. The touch, look and feel of material is familiar to us all, and on our first entrance to the world we are wrapped and cushioned from our environment, usually in some form of textile. […]
Mandy Doubt AKA Paul McNeill is a Print Maker specialising in Screen Printing & Letterpress. They operate out of their new garden studio based in Norwich. Their work is often typographical & sometimes contains humour. They learnt the craft of Letterpress as a volunteer at The Printing Museum in Norwich & they learnt screen printing […]
I am interested in trying to make work that achieves a balance between still and moving elements. This idea can be found in a variety of subjects; from looking at the contrast between the movement of water inside and outside a harbour; or in the pattern of weather systems moving across the globe, or in […]
International acclaimed mezzotint artist Martin Mitchell, his work is rooted in the traditional process of intaglio & relief printmaking. Producing with out nostalgia or sentimentality, acclaimed tonal landscapes. “For me art is combining the aesthetics of the image and the dexterity of the craft skills of the artist. This I feel is best exemplified in […]
I produce editions of 12 or less prints using collagraph plates and techniques. Each print is a unique version of its siblings. My subjects are varied – from landscape to gardens, portraits to animals and birds. I am currently working on a large body of ideas inspired by recent trips to Iceland, old family photographs […]
I make lino prints and monoprints and my subjects are concerned with the human figure, usually in a domestic situation, or still life. Like many artists I use drawings as my starting point. When lino printing I usually cut separate blocks for each colour but occasionally use the reduction method where one block is systematically […]
I studied Illustration and Graphic Design at Ipswich Art School, graduating in 1979 and I worked as a freelance illustrator of nature and children’s books for many years. In 2014 I attended a workshop to learn woodcutting at Sudbourne Park Printmakers and this led to me becoming a member of the group. My main artistic […]
Etching took over from watercolour in 1999 and I have been fascinated by the medium ever since. I work in traditional ways choosing either a hard or soft ground combined with aquatint for tone to produce the image. A lot of my work is printed using coloured inks blended on a copper or zinc plate, […]
I produce Lino prints and Engravings that are often inspired by the natural world around me, usually in landscape form, and I try to convey the movement in nature when I design my work, as well as a sense of depth. I often ‘break out’ from the rectangular frame of my images with blades of […]
My work explores the sensory and emotional interconnections and interdependence between humans and other animals, and a wider sense of patterns and forms in nature which I approach through a way of working for which I have borrowed the term ‘sensitive chaos’* This term strongly resonates with me the experience of making artwork, intuitively following […]
Keziah Philipps is an animator printmaker who works both with the traditional medium of printmaking, and the relatively modern medium of animation, often combining the two. Much of her work explores people’s relation to place and their movement within it, utilising various cartographical elements. Keziah won the Assembly House art prize and has been based in […]
Working from a cosy attic studio I print, paint and bind my way through the day by creating characters, landscapes and typograpgy for all things print including picture books, magazines, posters and giftware. My images are fuelled by whimsical mid-century design and traditional print processes.
My work is predominantly screen or relief printed onto paper although lately I have been working with printed textiles. As a recent fine art graduate, my work focuses on the interception of information and how we can form new ideas and imagery by altering and disrupting what already exists. Combining elements of collage and drawing […]
In 2004 I moved to Norwich to I study biology and natural sciences at UEA. I completed my education with an MSc in Plant Genetics and Crop improvement at the John Innes Centre. Despite, or maybe because of my fascination with the natural sciences I have always pursued art in my own time and over […]
Laurie has walked, cycled, run, and fished across most parts of Britain and France for the last fifty years. All this time he has drawn and painted, filling many sketchbooks with memories of our beautiful lands. For almost as long he has been a professional artist, teacher and printmaker making the classic copperplate aquatint etchings […]
For me there are occasions when I’ve made a print and it inspires me to create a painting with a similar idea and composition in mind. Then at other times it works the other way round and I create a print inspired by one of my paintings. They are not intended to be copies of […]
I am a painter and printmaker. My work is mainly about people, their movements and poses and what they do. But this concern doesn’t exclude landscape and still-life. Recently I have become interested in aspects of the seaside, how people behave there, but also the sea-shore plants that grow in particular locations. Linocut (using 5 […]
Since graduating with a degree in Illustration a fair few years ago now, I have spent my time since doing just that with a bit of design work, printmaking and workshop teaching thrown in for good measure. My work in general varies enormously in subject matter, technique and materials used, however my focus is always […]
I have been mesmerised by printmaking techniques since attending Art Foundation Course at Cambridge followed by completing a degree course in Sheffield and Postgraduate Printmaking at Camberwell, London. I use a variety of techniques but recently have concentrated on linocuts. I draw inspiration from my environment and try to capture the essence of a place. […]
I returned to printmaking in 2016 after working with textiles and papier mache for some time. My father, a mathematician, grappled with purely abstract concepts. In my prints I attempt to construct their visual counterparts, which are inevitably a little less precise. They are made by playing with the conventional elements of abstraction: colour, tone, […]
As co-founder of Off The Press Collective, I organise events and exhibitions involving a spectrum of talented artists. The themes from these exhibitions have a huge influence on my own work, often bouncing it new directions. Simple shapes, bold colour, pointy teeth and horns are recurring motifs, film and literature provide the spark. I’m so […]
I have always lived, as have my family for many generations, within a few miles of the Suffolk coastline and it is the unique character and history of this landscape which remains a constant source of fascination and inspiration for me. I intend in my work to celebrate this landscape and the wildlife to be […]
I am a Norwich based printmaker and Fine Art graduate from Norwich University of the Arts, 2010 and recently completed a Master of Arts in Printmaking at Anglia Ruskin University, 2017 – 2019. My Practice Using film photography and traditional printmaking processes as a way of recording observations, my practice forms a response to the […]
I grew up and still live by the sea, in Lowestoft on the Suffolk Coast. I am inspired by my hometown and surrounding areas; the remnants of a thriving fishing industry, working and industrial landscapes, crafts, trades and a real love for the everyday, people, workers and places. I graduated in 2000 with a Design […]
I am a graphic designer and printmaker, working across a range of media and I believe that anything can function as a carrier of information. My vision is based on stripping topics to their core, presenting only their essential information. This creates immediate, clear, bold and often even witty communication. My screen prints are graphic-based, […]
