Monica Petzal was trained as an artist and art historian, and has had a diverse career as an artist, academic, critic and curator. A citizen of both the UK and Germany she is intensely interested in her German Jewish heritage. After studying painting at Kingston, she took an MA in Art History at Sussex under […]

Kristina Chan is an award winning artist based in London. She has exhibited throughout Europe, Australia, India, Canada, South Africa and the USA and her work can be found in many private and public collections, including the V&A Museum, the Ingram Collection and the Royal Collection. Kristina trained in analogue and digital photography, lithography, etching, […]

Michael Taylor is the founder of the Paupers Press, the hugely respected fine art print and publishing studio based in Hoxton, London. Since 1986 it has worked with many leading and emerging contemporary artists, both by commission as well as publishing projects under its own name. Paupers has worked for some of the leading UK galleries such as White Cube, Cristea Roberts and Marlborough, realising finely crafted and […]

Katherine Jones is a British printmaker and painter living and working in Brixton, London. Her work revolves around perceptions of safety and danger, focusing on ordinary objects, spaces and buildings as a framework to begin to question these themes. Her approach to the work, which combines traditional forms of intaglio and relief print, is direct and […]

Nobuo Okawa was born in Tokyo, Japan and trained at St Martin’s School of Art, London in the late 1970s, where he became interested in the intaglio printmaking technique of mezzotint. His work has been exhibited in the UK, Japan and USA and a collection of his prints are held in the British Museum. Lawrence. […]

Diane Bresson is a French printmaker and designer based in London. She graduated from Central Saint Martins in textile design in 2018 and went on to be awarded the Colour in Design Award the same year. During her studies she became interested in large scale screenprinting and how colours interact with each other through a […]

  Sumi Perera is an interdisciplinary artist, academic and curator who cross-links various skills and materials to create interactive site-specific installations, interventions and performances. She has held international residencies in China (Beijing & Yinchuan), Italy (Venice), France (Marcilhac-sur-Cele) & London, which informs and influences her ongoing projects. Many of Sumi’s artworks are held public and […]

Mixing cities and neighbourhoods, Tanya Morand’s compositions show irregular and imaginative, rather than ordinary and orderly, views. Figures pass through these scenes as if defying the laws of gravity.  Tanya’s process is exciting, distinctive and energetic, much like her works and we can’t wait to hear the process in the artist’s own words. Born in Montreal, Tanya’s […]

Immerse yourself in an audience with Danielle Creenaune, an Australian-born artist who has worked out of her print studio in Barcelona before returning to New South Wales in 2019. Her central motivation is ‘the intrinsic dialogue between landscape and people, how landscape is perceived through our library of pre-lived experiences and the ways in which […]

  Discover what inspires print-makers around the world in a series of talks exclusively for West Yorkshire Print Workshop. Hazel started her image-making career as a painter, graduating in the late nineties from Cardiff with a first class BA hons in Fine Art before exploring printmaking – a medium, in her own words “offering an […]