
Lino Print returns to The Horsebridge with some of the best local, national and international relief printmakers featuring in both galleries.
Take a look at the artists in the show and scroll down to read more about these fantastic printmakers.
Amanda Ribbans
Ben Sands
Bryan Angus
David Gander
Emily Robertson
Eric Gaskell
Gemma Trickey
Georgia Flowers
Grace Gillespie
Hannah Forward
Hugh Ribbans
Ieuan Edwards
Jay Caskie
Jo Oakley
John Pedder
Joshua Miles
Judith Westrup
Kat Flint
Kate Guy
Kate Neame
Laura Boswell
Mat Pringle
Nick Morley
Nicole Revy (Prints by the Bay)
Paul Peter Piech
Sean Star Wars
Strangford
Tigerlino
Total Pap
Plus the LinoPrint4 and Handprinted competition winner Ian O'Halloran
and runners up: Phillip Kingsbury, Alison Diamond and Nick Wonham.
LINO PRINT 4 THIS WEEKEND:
On Saturday 15 February from 2-3pm we are running a special Family Art Club focusing on Simple Printmaking. This workshop is designed for all the family and together you can experiment with printmaking techniques suitable for all ages. All the materials are provided and better still, the session is free with a suggested donation of £5.
Booking is recommended, you can find more details and a booking link on the Family Art Club page of our website





























PAUL PETER PIECH (1920-1996)
Paul Peter Piech (1920-1996) was born in New York in 1920 to Ukrainian immigrant parents and lived in a tough neighbourhood in Brooklyn. His parents’ strong work ethic combined with his artistic talent and huge sense of determination led to him gaining a place at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Arts.
Piech’s studies were suspended in 1942 due to the Second World War when he was enlisted into the US Eighth Army Air Force and posted in England. When on leave he visited Cardiff and met his future wife Irene Tompkins, who he later married in 1947. After the war he studied printmaking at Chelsea College of Art under Ceri Richards and went on to work as a designer and illustrator in commercial adverting for firms such as Dorland Advertising Agency (UK and USA) and Crawford Advertising Agency in London.
In 1959 Piech set up his own private press called the Taurus Press and started to produce limited edition books, leaflets and portfolios. Most of his early printed works were illustrated with woodblock or wood engravings combined with letterpress. Piech moved onto using lino in the 1960s as it was cheaper, more portable and easily accessible. He mainly worked at home in his garage turned studio using a Thompson Proofing Press (which is still in use today at Aberystwyth University) to produce his large broadsheet posters.
In the early 1970s Piech left advertising and taught at various art schools across the UK (including London College of Printing and Leicester College of Art & Design) whilst creating and exhibiting vast numbers of political and socially motivated printed posters, many of which combined his trademark hard-hitting imagery with heavy cut linocut lettering.
Piech’s work developed from an array of sources and covered a wide range of issues including power, racism, equality, torture, war, national identity and politics. He was reflective and questioning of the status quo, society, and politics using his artistic practice as a means to communicate his personal views and influences.
Piech spent the last ten years of his life in Porthcawl, on the South Wales coast, where he and his wife Irene, originally from nearby Aberdare, had moved to retire. He had a significant impact on the Welsh art scene with his trade-mark heavy linocut lettering and socially motivated poster prints.
Peter Paul Piech work is held in collections around the world including a significant collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
The Paul Peter Piech prints offered at LINO PRINT 4 are from Jim Creed’s private collection. Jim, a self-confessed Piech fanatic, has been collecting his prints and books for almost 20 years ever since he was introduced to his work while working at the Regional Print Centre in Wrexham. He has written several published articles about Piech for art journals and magazines including Pressing Matters and Printmaking Today. Jim also co-curated a major retrospective exhibition of Piech’s work at the People’s History Museum in Manchester in 2016/17.
Other recent project contributions include:
The Work of Paul Peter Piech – a lesson for all – (A blog post for Cyon Valley Museum (2021))
PAUL PETER PIECH - Activist Prints from the 1970s and ‘80s (A video interview for Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Galleries (2020-21)
Plus the WINNER of the LinoPrint 4 and Handprinted competition
and runners up ...

IAN O’HALLORAN
Ian O’Halloran is a painter and printmaker living and working in the Sussex High Weald.
Originally training as a Civil Engineer he decided that there were enough bridges and roads in the world and left to study painting at Eastbourne College of Art and Design in 1989.
Having always been drawn to the English landscape it was inevitable that he would pursue that as his main source of artistic inspiration, being fascinated by it’s shapes, rhythms and patterns and the stories they tell. His distinctive use of colour enables him to express his emotional connection with the places that inspire him.
In the early 00’s he started to experiment with printmaking techniques (especially multi block linocuts) and this now forms the main part of his practice.
He exhibits regularly and is a member of The Sussex Arts Collective and has work reproduced on ‘The Artists Bridge’ in Hailsham and TN Lawrences Art Pads.
In 2016 he was commissioned to create a linocut for the cover of Mary Ann Ochota’s book ‘Hidden Histories: a spotters guide to the British Landscape’.
In 2024 his work was longlisted for the Jackson Art Prize and shortlisted for the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (appearing in the Directors Cut online exhibition).

ALISON DIAMOND MA. MAFA. Cert. Ed. Associate Fellow HE
Alison's printmaking practice reflects life experiences and is influenced by her background in the North of England. She uses the figure in many works, individuals carrying out the everyday activities. Recent reflection upon beach life, family and café culture are areas Alison intends to focus upon over the coming year. She aims to imply that the individuals depicted, experience a genuine quality of life that may not, on first impressions be apparent.
Alison has a passion for drawing, perspective, colour and pattern through the diversity of print media, enjoying challenges and the surprises the process provides along the way.
Formerly an Academic tutor at Sunderland University teaching printmaking for Illustration, Alison works as a freelance artist/consultant within community settings, initiating projects and running workshops. She exhibitsher work widely nationally and internationally most recently Rheged Great 9 and Printfest Ulverston 2024 and presented with the Haighs Award 2022 (High standard linocut traditional print)
Alison is also a member of Allendale Artist Network, Northumberland. Northern Print Studio, The Tin Shed Artist Network and Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne

NICK WONHAM
Nick’s art is inspired by his love of nature, particularly British birds and mammals. His aim is to convey that sense of excitement felt when spotting an animal in the wild. Specializing in linocut prints, he likes to make use of bold flat colour and line, and compositions with an abstract quality.
Nick has a long running collaboration with Incline Press in Oldham which has published several of his books over a period of twenty years. Many of Nick’s prints have appeared on greetings cards and calendars published by Green Pebble. His work has been exhibited in galleries and exhibitions throughout the country.

The Wooden Spoon Press
Philip Kingsbury (The Wooden Spoon Press) is a Linocut printmaker.
Philip loves lino printing and finds it fantastic and versatile as well as the whole process of sketching ideas, re-sketching, working out how it could work as a Lino print, and making sure each print has enough light and dark. The slowness, focus and excitement of the carving process and then rolling ink onto the Lino block and passing through the heavy printing press - each stage has its own joy.
Phillip likes to twist perspectives and make scenes seem somewhat dreamlike and not quite right in some way. He spends a lot of time drawing and scribbling down ideas and always has his sketchbook close by.
Studying illustration at Hereford College of Art and Design is where Phillip discovered printmaking.
'My artworks are carved from lino, and hand printed, by me, on a beautiful red etching press. The name The Wooden Spoon Press comes from the days when I didn’t have my etching press and instead used a wooden spoon as my press - the name has stuck though!'