including Chiringiuto (refreshment stand) (left)

including Refraction III (left)

...I have sought to develop a printing technique which gives a ghostly, almost otherworldly look to the images...

Jim Butler (Seamus de Buitleir) was born in Dublin and lives in Cambridge where he runs the B.A. in Illustration & Animation at Anglia Ruskin University. He is a freelance artist specialising in drawing, collage and printmaking. He previously lived in Manchester where he taught part time on the B.A. Illustration with Animation, B.A. Interior Design and M.A. Media Arts courses at Manchester Metropolitan University (M.M.U.). He is a member of Hot Bed Press, an open access printmaking studio, and is an elected member of both the Society of Architectural Illustration and the Society of Graphic Fine Art. He has exhibited under both the Irish and English forms of his name.

Neill Canning draws inspiration for his vivid abstract work from the landscapes and seascapes of West Cornwall - the Bronze Age configurations of the land and the sea itself. It is the energy of waves and immensity nature in general and not the physical that is captured in Canning’s dynamic and rapturous screenprints.

Initially I like to work outdoors, spending time getting to know an area, and making drawings in black and white, and colour. Later I re-work these drawings trying to distill the images to a clearer more elemental view of nature.

Ronald Ceuppens creates an abstract world, filled with the sensitive melody of silence and serenity.

including Slithy Toves (left)