Tag: linocut

Designer Desire: Suzanne Parry

Montage of Suzanne Parry limited-edition linocut prints

Suzanne Parry is an artist who creates limited-edition linocut prints which she sells on Etsy and direct via her Facebook page.

Each hand-made run consists of a mere 25 prints. Her subject matter is often on a Welsh theme; daffodils, Blaenavon coal, Hay-on-Wye, Welsh rugby and Skomer Island puffins.

As a printmaker living in Wales, I love walking and cycling through the natural and industrial landscape, and find it inspiring for the designs of my lino prints.

To create a print, I work first on the design using photographs and sketches. Then I transfer my design directly onto a block of lino, and hand carve the image using lino tools. Next, using a roller. Finally, I lay paper over the lino, and print by hand using the back of a spoon, or a small baren. I repeat the printing process at least 25 times to produce a limited edition of the image and sign each print by hand.
Each of the 25 prints in the edition is an original, not a reproduction. The nature of the hand-made process means that there will be minor variations between prints.

Designer Desire: Callie Jones

Montage of Callie Jones illustrations

Callie Jones is a Cornish artist and linocut printmaker based in North Wales, near Caernarfon. Her artworks are inspired by the landscapes that surround her studio.

For 25 years, she worked as a freelance illustrator in London during which time her clients included BBC Homes and Antiques magazine, BBC Good Food magazine, Country Living magazine, Marks & Spencer, National Geographic Channel and The National Trust.

She sells her artwork via her Facebook page and Lotti & Wren in Caernarfon. She collaborated with Babipur to create reusable jute bags printed with her designs. She also designed the cover for Karen Burns-Booth’s book, Lavender & Lovage: A Culinary Notebook of Memories & Recipes From Home & Abroad.

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Designer Desire: Liz Myhill

Montage of Liz Myhill linocuts

Liz Myhill (b. 1980) is a Scottish artist whose practice encompasses painting, linocuts, collage and mixed media. Being an avid walker and traveller, her work is often on the subjects of nature and landscape.

She has produced public art works for NHS Scotland and illustrated book and album covers… and even cartons of milk.

Her work  is shown and sold at Birch Tree Gallery, Frames Gallery and Gallery Q. Greeting cards with her prints are currently for sale on Down to Earth Cards.

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Designer Desire: Paul Peter Piech

Mosaic of Paul Peter Piech artworks | H is for Home

A week or so ago, we were in an antique shop in Aberystwyth when a framed, limited-edition, lino-cut print poster hanging on the wall caught our eye; it was signed, ‘Paul Peter Piech’. We’d never heard of the artist, so I made a note of the name to check him out when we returned home.

Paul Peter Piech (1920-1996) was a Brooklyn-born artist of Ukrainian parentage. As a GI during the 2nd World War, he’d been posted to Cardiff. Whilst there, he met his future wife, Irene Tompkins. She didn’t fancy the idea of moving to the US, so they remained in the UK, eventually settling in Wales.

Piech’s posters were often on the subjects of equality, justice, human rights, anti-war, anti-racism, the environment and jazz. His artworks were regularly set with quotes from pre-eminent poets and orators such as Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu, John F. Kennedy, Harri Webb and Walt Whitman.

In 1959, Piech founded the Taurus Press of Willow Dene in Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire. It printed limited-edition books on poetry by the likes of William Blake, Hugo Manning, John Donne, John Cotton, Neil Spratling and Graham Searle. He provided the accompanying illustrations for these publications.

In the 1980s, Piech donated in excess of 2,500 prints and posters to the V&A’s permanent collection. After his death, his family donated an extensive portfolio of his later work to the Regional Print Centre and Art & Design department at Yale College, Wrexham.

Because of his abundance of production (and despite the small print runs), his works are fairly easy to come by; original prints and posters can be found at auction or on eBay and Etsy. Books by and about him can be found on Amazon and Hive.

I’ve been called a Fascist. I’ve been called a Communist. I’ve been called a racist. I’ve been called everything after any of my shows happen because of certain posters, you see. But they can’t pin me down to any ‘isms… I just look at humanity the way it is and then I make a graphic expression of it. The purpose of graphic expression is to realize some truth that they’re missing and to do something about it… I don’t want to sit around and be silent.

Paul Peter Piech

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