The ancient art of printmaking has always fascinated artists…

No other two-dimensional artform has such a substantial relationship with the physical process of making. The magic and unexpectedness of the creative path - through the stages of idea, making the marks, and pressing the print - has captured the imaginations of artists from Rembrandt to Picasso to specialists in our own time such as Norman Ackroyd.

Printmaking remains an incredibly versatile medium with an amazing range of techniques such as lithography, aquatint, screen printing, woodblock and chine collé, and even in its simplest forms is capable of producing haunting and subtle images.  It goes to the heart of what image making is all about, with sometimes rudimentary means yielding endlessly varied and beautiful results.