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Book cover for Linocut for Artists and Designers

Linocut for Artists and Designers book – pre-order now

Linocut for Artists and Designers, the book I have been writing, is available to pre-order now, I’m delighted to announce! After three years of hard work, more than ten days of photo shoots with Hazeleigh Prebble and many sessions with my designer, Ian Youngs, I have received the first advance copy! It looks brilliant and […]

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Linocuts and other goodies

As well as making linocut prints I love looking at linocuts by other artists and even collecting a few. I particularly like finding artists and designers who use linocut in totally different ways to me. Prints are a great way for people to buy affordable, original art and as an artist you can even get […]

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Bick Fill talks about his series of Monster linocuts

Another great video of Bill Fick, this time talking about why he makes linocuts of monsters and people’s preconceptions about what kind of artist would make such images. There’s also some nice footage of him working in the studio. Bill Fick’s linocuts featured in a travelling exhibition I curated over the last year. Most recently […]

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Paul Catherall Linocuts of London

Anyone who lives in London is probably familiar with the linocuts of Paul Catherall. His stylised images of iconic London landmarks have appeared on Transport for London posters and are sold in some of the capital’s major museum shops. An exhibition of Paul’s London linocuts will be showing at Paul McPherson Gallery in Greenwich from 23 […]

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Steve Edwards – etched lino prints

My friend Steve Edwards has been making etching lino prints for a number of years. By applying caustic paste to the linoleum with brushes, cotton buds and other tools he is able to create a wide range of textures and marks. When I visited East London Printmakers studio yesterday he was working on some new […]

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An Alphabet of London – linocut book by Christopher Brown

I first encountered the work of linocut artist and illustrator Christopher Brown at a St Judes exhibition where his enchanting little thumbnail images of humorous characters caught my eye. I also heard him talk entertainingly about his mentor, the great Edward Bawden, at St Bride Library in 2010. He had many anecdotes which he told with […]

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Reduction linocuts of LA neon signs by Dave Lefner

I just found this amazing video of linocut artist Dave Lefner. Dave makes linocuts using the reduction printing technique, a high-risk and painstaking process. This video by Ric Serena is beautifully shot and really shows linocut at its colourful best. I love the way Dave is using linocut to capture the beauty of those old […]

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Linocut workshops and other printmaking courses in Margate

I am planning to run a series of linocut workshops and other printmaking workshops like etching and possibly screenprinting over the next year here in Margate. One idea is to run two kinds of printmaking workshops – evening classes for local printmakers and weekend classes for artists from further afield, like London. At the moment […]

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New Year, new linocut projects

As I begin my first calendar year in Margate I thought I’d write a quick post about my plans for world linocut domination in 2012. To set the scene here is a lovely shot from Margate beach of the Harbour Arm and Turner Contemporary. Having established that Margate is, indeed, a lovely and exciting place […]

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Thomas Shahan woodcut/linocut technique video

This is a lovely little video by the very talented Thomas Shahan, who I came across through flickr. His woodcuts and linocuts are deeply rooted in printmaking tradition and here he talks a little bit about his influences including Durer and Holbein. He also shows his carving and printing technique. He mainly uses mdf but […]

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