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I live and work in Charlton-on-Otmoor, one of Oxfordshire’s beautiful rural villages, where I’m inspired by the winter landscapes, silhouetted trees and other natural forms.

My favourite methods of working are screen-printing and intaglio printmaking, where I use an aquatint technique to etch copperplate.

The paper I use is a specialist art paper including Somerset Satin for my etchings, and Fabriano 5 for my screen-prints. All of my prints are hand-made, unique, and usually produced in small, limited editions.

I also enjoy screen-printing images on to glass, then adding another layer of glass before fusing together in a kiln.

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Christina’s work combines line and colour to evoke aspects and rhythms found both in nature and man-made structures. The richness and depth of colour combined with the beautiful embossing gives the work an interesting surface.  The focus is on the essence of things with an awareness of the fragile and transient quality of a moment in time. The lines are interconnecting, easily broken, lost and found.  The build up of consecutive lines acquire a density and rhythm which can be fragile, flowing or appear like the layers in strata. In her most recent work, Christina has started to incorporate metal leaf to emphasise the preciousness of nature in its jewel- like quality. This adds yet another dimension in the way light plays and is reflected on the surface of the work.

Christina graduated from the Surrey Institute in Fine Art and worked as head of Printmaking and Artist in Residence at the South Hill Park Arts Centre for six years.  As well as running the department she participated in many art projects as artist in the community and collaborated with other artists across disciplines leading to several exhibitions and performances at the centre (group and solo).

After leaving S.H.P, she joined the Oxford Printmakers Co-op and exhibits regularly with the group in the Oxford area including:  Christ Church Gallery, Oxfordshire Museum, Sanders Gallery, Hereford Museum, Reading Museum, O3 Gallery, SJE ARTS etc…

She won the best 2D award at the Newbury Arts Festival which resulted in a solo exhibition. Other Exhibitions include: Fairfield’s Art Centre,  Modern Artists Gallery,  New Ashgate Gallery, Affordable Arts Fair London from 2002 to 2021 etc…

*Mixed media relief print – V/E of 45 – £295 unframed – £345 Framed – 52cm x 42cm. Please contact the workshop if you would like to buy this print.

 www.christinataylorsmithartist.com

I am a retired professor of English Literature at Oxford.

My books are mainly about literature (Milton, Donne, Dickens, Thackeray, William Golding) or cultural history and theory (The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are The Arts?). I’ve also written a memoir, The Unexpected Professor (Faber & Faber, 2014).

I was encouraged to join OPC and learn to print by Irvine Loudon, whose work I greatly admire. Printing for me is always an adventure, because it uses a different part of the brain from words, which usually occupy me.

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I am a painter, designer, jeweller and printmaker. I grew up in Oxford and originally trained as a textile designer.

I spend my days painting seascapes, still-lifes and flowers and making silver jewellery. In 2010 I won The People’s Choice Award for my painting of the Didcot Towers called “You’ll miss us when we’re gone!” Following that success II began to paint local landscapes, especially Wittenham Clumps. More recently I took a course with the Oxford Printmakers and have been developing my printmaking skills. There is so much to learn and I absolutely love it.

It is such a pleasure to be involved with OPC and the work that goes on in the workshops is endlessly inspiring and the people there have such a vast knowledge and generous spirit.

You can find a small selection of my work at 

www.charliedaviesdesigns.co.uk

For my subject matter I look to the English landscape.  Particularly that which is around me in West Oxfordshire. The paths that I walk, the woods, rivers, field patterns, hedgerows and old stone walls. Houses, isolated in the landscape. Abandoned buildings and sheds, together with their clutter of what has been lost or left behind.

 

Lonely places with an atmosphere all their own.

Sally Levell has been an OPC member since 2013. Before coming to live in Oxford I worked in Print studios in Rotterdam for over a decade. I focus on zinc-plate rather than copper-plate etching as I like to work at a reasonably large scale and I love textures and applying different techniques on the one plate. I feel that this style suits my subject matter. I like to give my own interpretation of subjects which are not only beautiful but interesting from either a historical or a scientific perspective.

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In 1980 I completed my foundation art course at Oxford Polytechnic.  The following year I attended Bristol where I gained a BA Hon’s degree in Fine Art. Since then I have continued painting, drawing and printmaking.  I taught life drawing at the East Oxford Community Centre and I attended St Gregory’s School helping with the A’ Level art course.

I have shown my work at the Old Fire Station and the Zoology Department at Oxford University. I completed several modules in Art History at the Oxford University Continuing Department of Education

I am a member of the Oxford Art Society and the Oxford Printmakers Co Op.  And with both groups I have shown my artwork on a regular bases. I have also shown my Artwork during Art Weeks in different venues around Oxford.  Including the Museum of Oxford, the Christadelpian Hall and at the John Radcliffe Hospital. I have taken part in group exhibitions at Art Jericho and the Cornerstone Gallery, Didcot, and the New brewery Arts Centre.

I always draw from life using the environment around me as inspiration. The subject of these studies can be any thing from Landscape and studies of Oxford to life drawing and Portraits. And from these drawings I produce Etchings and Paintings.

 

While living and working in London, I studied printmaking at The City Lit, and later, Morley College, where I was able to experiment with a wide variety of techniques. Since retiring and moving to Oxford in 2012, I have joined Oxford Printmakers.

I use a range of relief printing methods, including etching, linocut and collograph. Inspiration comes mostly from the natural environment, with buildings a second source of interest. I am always looking for the essential character of the subject, whether this is expressed in a naturalistic or a more abstract manner, exploring aspects of form and pattern.

I have previously exhibited with the Printmakers Council, and at the Morley Gallery. I am also a member of the Oxford Art Society.

Catriona Brodribb trained at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Wimbledon School of Art. She works part time at Oxford Printmakers Co-operative as technician-manager.

The job involves getting to grips with the many aspects of printmaking, and working with a huge range of age groups and people.

Catriona’s own print experience oscillates between using the processes of etching, monoprinting, screenprinting and woodcut. All works start from a drawing, or more rarely a photograph; a process is then selected that is deemed to work best for that image. Source material varies: it might be taken from within a landscape, for example structures such as: pylons, power stations, oast houses, tractors and Tors; or domestic items such as jugs, vegetables, and shoes;  artefacts from archaeological excavations, as in Roman cobbled floors and skeletal remains, or text based themes and symbols, such as alphabets, & and £ signs.

 

www.catrionabrodribb.co.uk