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I started by studying Ceramics then went into publishing and  television before  returning to art via book illustration. For more about my work, please see :
www.nickycooney.com

I spend a lot of time in my garden and wanted to find a way of integrating that with my printmaking. Composing with the natural forms themselves arose as one solution. There are two zinc plates here one has a floral image drawn into the waxy ground  with a stylus.These are then bitten in acid  which produces the intaglio crevices  to hold the ink.  Then hydrangeas, honesty and eucalyptus were the main other components which I placed over a soft waxy ground and passed them through the press .Once removed the resulting indentations in the ground exposes the metal to be bitten again. The fine detail is more intricate than a drawing ..I have overlaid the two printing plates so that only the central part overlaps.  This is a  unique version. Other combinations of the plates and colours will result in a quite different print. 

Rahima Kenner ~ Artist

Anne Marie’s interest in art started when she was a child. Two of uncles were professional painters and from an early age she was encouraged in her creative pursuits. After an art baccalaureate in France she studied textile design. Anne Marie studied printmaking in 1998 at the Slade School of Art. The printmaking process felt like magic. Each print presented slight differences, each one with a new and exciting result.  Colours, textures and line drawings play an important role in her work. Some of her prints a quite small, but recently she started using digital techniques to enlarge and create larger pieces. Anne Marie finds her inspiration in maps, signs and symbols, patterns and travels. Anne Marie has exhibited in London, Oxfordshire and France and works from her studio in Oxfordshire.

 www.annemarielepretre.com

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.

 www.heatherpower.co.uk 

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.

 johncarey.org

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.

Sally’s website