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Kate Tidmarsh
Creating images through exploration and experimental printmaking.
I started my artistic journey many years ago as a freelance woven textile designer, designing and selling to the contract furnishing fabric trade. Now living in West Lancashire, I am at a point in my life when I have more time to devote to what I like doing best - creating images through exploration and experimental printmaking.
I work in equal parts from the distilled memory of a place and in response to the colour and pattern in my immediate environment, producing unique or very small editions of hand pulled prints. I am very fortunate to live in such a beautiful part of the country, with access to both the coast and wonderful inland countryside to serve as inspiration.
Printing, like weaving, has a lot of problem solving and practical considerations running alongside constructing and creating. I am particularly drawn to the experimental (and slightly unpredictable!) aspects of printing, using unusual materials and starting points to develop interpretations of the world around me. I enjoy the process of developing concepts or ideas, exploring variations and producing work in a series, which printing allows me to do easily. Documenting this journey of exploration is an important part of my work.
My prints are all handmade and individually inked, using a variety of printing techniques such as monoprint, drypoint, lino print and collagraph printing, using oil based inks on a variety of papers. I am most happy combining these technical skills with a ‘what would happen if’ approach, resulting in unique exciting investigations and outcomes. This can include folding, overlays, marbling or combining techniques. Currently I am experimenting with a variety of recycled plate materials (tetrapak packaging), as well as exploring layering of colour with printed acetate collage in a perspex block.
These individual prints may stand alone, or be part of a related series exploring a theme. The prints may be unique (1/1), part of a very small edition (1/3), or part of a small Variable Edition (V.E. 1/3). Occasionally, they may be part of an Open Variable Edition (O.V.E.) where I am exploring a theme in an ongoing closely related series, which I may return to over time.
My finished work can range from small cropped sections of prints, to individual handmade greeting cards, to one off prints (up to A3), to a limited edition of a print (usually 5 maximum).
![Kate Tidmarsh Forest Sunlight](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/253bf9_12c015923e934b06a15bc6a92dc644a2~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_147,h_147,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/253bf9_12c015923e934b06a15bc6a92dc644a2~mv2.jpg)
![Kate Tidmarsh Burscough Canalside](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/253bf9_231bd41216e54efe9cdaf36cfadbbf3f~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_147,h_147,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/253bf9_231bd41216e54efe9cdaf36cfadbbf3f~mv2.jpg)
![Kate Tidmarsh Small World 1](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/253bf9_7306ba8ac06c4ba99f6e5918786feb12~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_147,h_147,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/253bf9_7306ba8ac06c4ba99f6e5918786feb12~mv2.jpg)
![Kate Tidmarsh Estuary View](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/253bf9_e6b83dee953f4effb5b838ca9c3e353e~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_147,h_147,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/253bf9_e6b83dee953f4effb5b838ca9c3e353e~mv2.jpg)
![Separate Together World 2](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/253bf9_3306d56e27c040309d1694e77ba4d659~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_147,h_110,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/253bf9_3306d56e27c040309d1694e77ba4d659~mv2.jpg)
![Kate Tidmarsh Lock Walk](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/253bf9_7c31acc134e2476b91dc2c698b0811a8~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_147,h_147,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/253bf9_7c31acc134e2476b91dc2c698b0811a8~mv2.jpg)
![Kate Tidmarsh Night Lock](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/253bf9_2cc587d56d6d463d8116959f573463e9~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_147,h_147,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/253bf9_2cc587d56d6d463d8116959f573463e9~mv2.jpg)
![Kate Tidmarsh Morning Sun](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/253bf9_e7e47042c97247e28760bcce2511b3eb~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_147,h_196,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/253bf9_e7e47042c97247e28760bcce2511b3eb~mv2.jpg)