Lisa Benson is an artist and printmaker living in Watchet. She has a diverse range of printing experience and loves to experiment with new techniques and combining processes. Lisa usually teaches our drypoint, linocut and kitchen lithography workshops.
Jenny Graham is an artist-printmaker living in Watchet. Her practice is very varied, utilising many different processes in her exploration of the environment. Printmaking, sculpture and painting form the main cores of Jenny’s work. Jenny teaches regular painting workshops at Albatross as well as photo-etching and simple bookbinding techniques.
Laurel Coxon is a print and textile artist with over a decade of experience in teaching and creative practice. She specialises in a wide range of textile and printmaking techniques, with a particular passion for natural dyes, especially Indigo.
Laurel has run her own successful textile business, Arrietty, for the past 12 years, and currently manages the print studio at Exeter College. Her love of print and colour shines through in both her work and her teaching. Laurel is enthusiastic about sharing her knowledge and helping others discover the joy of creating with fabric, colour, and pattern.
Sally Hebeler has been a printmaker for many years and is a member of Somerset Printmakers. Her recent work is shown in exhibitions and Galleries locally. Sally’s process of printing allows her to connect with those untold stories, unmarked losses, and ephemeral lives. Her prints are overlayed and built up using a variety of techniques and materials, like layers of history. Using a palimpsest approach, she incorporates intaglio, relief, embossing techniques, found objects and archival materials. Sally teaches our experimental drypoint and other intaglio workshops.
Maddie Rock is an artist-printmaker living and working in West Somerset. Maddie spends much of her time in the outdoors drawing inspiration from the landscape, collecting leaves, lichen and seaweed to take home to press. Back in the studio, she works from her drawings to create collagraph plates. Using dried plant matter along with all sorts of other textured papers and fabrics, she creates prints that recapture the sense of place. Maddie teaches some of our collagraph workshops.
Lisa Takahashi is a painter and printmaker based in Taunton, Somerset. Her practice spans linocut, watercolour, oil painting and drawing. Lisa has taught relief printmaking regularly for the past 9 years and was responsible for devising linocut classes at Spike Print Studio in Bristol. She is also a regular writer for Jackson’s Art Blog. She reached the semi-final of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year in 2018 and was a judge on the cult classic Watercolour Challenge.
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