Throughout this series, I’ve featured many printmakers who took their first printmaking class when they were working toward their art degrees. But there are other stories, too – of people who didn’t become artists until they’d worked in non-creative fields, who cobbled together an art education through evening and weekend classes, and who developed their […]

Jane Ormes’ biography opens with “I am a printmaker with a passion for pattern and the absurd.  When I was 7 I won an art prize at school.  The headmaster held it upside down and I was ( quietly ) furious.” That is a fitting introduction to the Bristol, England based printmaker, whose work is