Jacqueline is an artist and printmaker working from her garden studio in Old Langho in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire.

After completing a degree in graphic design at Humberside College of Higher Education following a foundation course in Art and Design at Bradford, she spent many years working within the design and commercial printing industry. Her journey into printmaking happened many years later, however, when during lockdown linocut became her ‘obsession’ and she has been printmaking ever since.

Drawing inspiration from a love of nature and the natural environment, people, visited places, the simplicity of everyday objects, she creates linocut prints by hand, from sketches or her own photography, with traditional grey lino using both the reduction method and also multiblock.

Reduction lino-cutting involves just one piece of lino which is carved gradually between each printed layer, revealing areas previously printed. Eventually when the last layer is printed the block is of no further use and is discarded. In this process she generally works from light to dark using lightfast oil based inks, and her editions are very limited, usually no more than a dozen.

Multiblock printing uses more linoleum blocks, and it’s crucial that all the layers are aligned correctly. This ensures longer print runs, as editions can be printed in batches.

More recently she has been exploring the art of collagraph printmaking and drypoint etching, using a repurposed pasta press!

For more of an insight into her process follow her on instagram or Bluesky

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