Something between you and the materials by Christina France Crews   What I love about printmaking is that there’s that there is always something between you and the materials. Unlike working directly onto paper, when you can essentially control where you’ve made the lines or the marks, with printmaking I never know quite what is […]

Moth-eaten taxidermy and hybrid lithography  by Caroline Whitehead After several years working mainly with silkscreen, I have made most of my recent prints either using various forms of alternative lithography – mokulito (lithography on wood); waterless litho; and so-called “kitchen” litho (using aluminium foil and cola) – or etched linoleum. What all these methods have […]

A short account of an afternoon at the Prints and Drawings Study Room, V&A by Emma Buckmaster 16th May 2016 On 16th May I was lucky enough to join a group of PMC members on a visit to the V&A Print Room, organised by Dawn Cole. Gill Saunders, who is the Senior Curator of Prints […]

Random Surface Impressions and Drawn lines By Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin As a printmaker, it is etching on copper that has engaged me the most over the years. By encouraging foul biting on the copper plate, during the etching process, a dialogue is created between random surface impressions and my drawn lines. It is always exciting to clean […]

A SIXTIES PRESSURE GROUP: FIFTY YEARS OF THE PRINTMAKERS COUNCIL by Michael Kennedy   The Printmaker’s Council, largely the initiative of printmaker, painter and teacher Michael Rothenstein, had its origins in a series of informal meetings in the early 1960’s, some of which were held at his London flat and others either at Bertorelli’s restaurant […]

PRINTER? PAINTER? MAKER? By Bronwen Paterson As an artist I am constantly trying to find a ‘recipe’ that best allows me to express myself succinctly. This can either be through the subject I choose or the materials I use. I am also trying to decode what it is I am hoping to say. As an […]

Each year the Printmakers Council makes awards to Graduates at various universities. Featured here are 4 of the award winners from 2015   PRU GRIFFITHS Being from a medical background I suppose that I chose to study Fine Art at the University for Creative Arts in Farnham so that I could play! Although I studied […]

Featured Artist – Sumi Perera   As an interdisciplinary art practitioner, for me, the allure of  printmaking lies in the potential that the process offers in enabling me to use different methods and materials to generate multiple permutations from a given set of substrates. Perhaps working as a doctor and scientist, pushes me into considering […]

Last year Printmakers Council was delighted to receive funding through the Heritage Lottery Fund to catalogue and preserve its archive. On November 18th our 50th anniversary exhibition ’50 Years of Artists Prints’ opens at the Bankside Gallery, London where we will be sharing some of the interesting facts and materials discovered during the archiving process. […]