Collaborative printmaking requires real empathy from the printers
The following are some pieces of feedback we have received from artists we have worked with:
"My spirits soar when I arrive at the studio to make prints. It’s like an aladdin’s cave of printing machinery and its possibilities. Everything is tidy, utterly professional, laid our ready to go. Kips is every artist’ s brother. His empathy with your work touches the supernatural."
John McLean
"Both the Print Studio as an environment and Kip as a person combine to provide an almost perfect art-making atmosphere. He has an intuitive understanding of what you want to do and draws on his huge experirence and expertise to help you to bring it about. He is a master at finding technical solutions to aesthetic problems. He must be one of the best printmakers in the world."
Michael Brick
"I really loved the fact I could have an idea and it would then be realised by Kip"
Andrew Carnie
"I was shown, on my first visit, the archive drawer and recognised work I had seen on the walls of public galleries."
Orlando Johnson
"There was the great surprise of turning a simple drawing into the sort of image I never dreamt I would make, by working with the team."
Bobby Baker
"Just to hang out with Kip for the day is a great pleasure. His knowledge is vast, and he picks up on every reference made."
Ed Catley
John McLean in the studio
"It’s an intensely creative environment, the joy of collaboration allowing for new discoveries in the work."
Iain Robertson
"I loved the first pull of a rather ‘bling’ zinc plate etching in gold ink on black paper accompanied by the timely play, at volume, of ‘Gold’ by Spandau Ballet."
Mat Chivers
"I liked working with someone else who has the same insane attention to detail and levels of perfectionism."
Alex Calinescu
"Kip's ability to interpret the individual colours I was working with and translate them into a printed image was integral to the success of the project."
James Hugonin
"I felt in awe at not only the visual spectacle of the print process, working with Kip and Tim in the morning, but the very birth of an image that, for me, smiled with a wink in its eye and said a very beautiful thank you."
Loukas Morley
