With everything that’s going on in the world today, it’s easy to feel like you want to bury your head in the sand or hibernate – I know I often do. Getting lost in my work and new ideas – be it for the magazine or in my printmaking experiments – is what truly keeps me going. This issue sees our makers sharing a real breadth of perspectives – whether it’s looking after the world by implementing safer, non-toxic printing practices or depicting nature’s forces and cycles with ink and paper, our artists have a real talent for capturing the complexity of life.

The importance of ‘sticking at it’ whilst being open to new approaches is something of a theme across this edition. But rather than a weird kind of endurance game, it’s important to see it as part of the overall creative journey, with all of its ups and downs. It doesn’t all have to be hard work though, as Ruth Ander suggests, “If you find something natural and enjoyable, it doesn’t mean it’s not worth anything. In fact, I would take it as a sign that you may be going in the right direction.”

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Issue Thirty featured artists/studios:
Ruth Ander  •  Yuchen Bian  •  Eline Brontsema  •  Fiona Fouhy
Friederike Greiner  •  FICA – Oficina Criativa  •  Issue 30 Print Challenge
Mike Kenyon  •  Mercedes López  •  Terence Millington  •  Maureen Nathan
Keith Pettit  •  Wilhelmina Peace  •  Penfold Press  •  Elena Radeva
Aprille Zammit  •  Zea Mays Printmaking

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Format: 100 page perfect bound publication, printed by Buxton Press on Edixion Offset paper.

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