Artists
Running Jump Print Workshop has a growing membership of artists, working across a range of print techniques and producing beautiful and innovative work. On this page we share a selection of their work.
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Caroline Elliott
Caroline work’s as a printmaker and artist and is attracted to the quiet, overlooked or neglected elements of nature, cycles of the seasons, of the growth, of change and records elements such as copses, mosses, lichens, seeds, rare wildflowers or thicket berries in differing types of landscapes, ancient hedgerows or woodlands.
The printing methods she is currently engaged with are collographs, for the sheer expanse of possibility within intaglio and relief combinations, mixed with block print, silk screen print, monoprint, photopolymer print, drypoint or hand painting.
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David Fishman
The inspiration for my etchings come from a love of atmospheric weather conditions, night, shadow and the romantic or dreamlike effect that I can achieve using the medium.
I have always drawn from life and my images start from detailed observation. Many stages are explored before I get to the finished piece.
My work derives from two major themes. Firstly Tulips: I love the complex sinuous shapes they form, especially when starting to wilt. Beauty to me comes from the plants as they age.
The other main subject in my Karate Gi (uniform). I am a 5th Dan Black belt in Goju Karate. Goju means hard/soft. It can be interpreted as combining opposites to make a harmonious whole. I started this series during the Covid lockdown.
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Matthias Glaser
Matthias discovered his love for printmaking as a teenager and has since worked with techniques such as linocut, woodcut, monoprint, collagraphy, and intaglio methods like drypoint, aquatint, softground, mezzotint, and polymer photogravure. His artistic influences include Hieronymus Bosch, Rembrandt, Caspar David Friedrich, Giorgio Morandi, Emil Nolde, and Hanns Georgi.
His art is often based on visual impressions, exploring the boundary between realism and pure abstraction by working in series.
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Alan MacKenzie
Alan MacKenzie started investigating techniques and media of artistic production after retirement. After producing a variety of paintings, in oils and acrylics, he also experimented with various modes of printmaking, including etching, woodcuts and linocuts. Eventually this led him to focus on the techniques and possibilities inherent in screenprinting.
His artistic objective is to present personages, images or buildings in ways that generate interesting colour and quirky design twists, utilising the multi-layered techniques of screenprinting. He has exhibited at Woolwich Contemporary Print and Bankside gallery among others.
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Richard Peacock
Richard Peacock founded Running Jump Print Workshop in 2024.
In his printmaking, his imagery combines elements of geometric abstraction, op and pop art. Recent work has included text (inspired by current unsettling political developments) and highly schematic images of furniture (deriving with the COVID pandemic and lockdown).
The stencils for his prints come from a variety of sources: sometimes basic geometric shapes, but often recycled pieces of packaging folded flat and exposed onto a screen.
The “handmade” nature of his work is important to him – there are imperfections, gaps, overlaps and unexpected colours to discover.
He has exhibited widely and has work in collections in the UK, USA, France, Denmark and Sweden.
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Teresa Schippel Hales
Teresa is a passionate printmaker specializing in photo etching, known for her evocative use of heavy contrast, shadows & silhouettes. Her work delves into the interplay of light and dark, creating powerful, atmospheric pieces that invite viewers to explore the depths of the human experience.
Teresa has been successful through her involvement in many solo & group shows, including prestigious exhibitions such as Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2022) and the Affordable Art Fairs in Hampstead, Battersea and Stockholm.
Teresa’s work continues to captivate audiences with its striking visual narratives and technical excellence.
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Philippa Silver
Having explored a variety of printing techniques, I have adopted collagraph as something very flexible and fun. It appeals to my love of drawing as well as my liking for cutting and arranging shapes into a satisfying composition.
I have many inspirations for my work; I’m not alone in finding a rich source of material from the past. It could be my own history, an imagined memory from a much earlier time or an image inspired by literature.
I’m still exploring collagraph and learning from my mistakes. I’m hoping to push the boundaries of the collagraph plate and maybe combining with other types of print as well as drawing or paint.