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Jan Sherwood LSDC

Printmaking

About Jan
Jan’s work as a designer/printmaker/artist/educator has evolved over thirty five years of practice. As a professional textile designer she has adapted and widened her practice and skills, embracing new technologies to create a wide variety of designs and individual artwork. Hand-painted, printmaking and digital media are intrinsically linked to the creation of her work.  She works in many printmaking processes - photopolymer etching, collagraph, a variety of monotype techniques, linocut, aquatint, drypoint and etching.
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Printmaking is a large part of Jan's practice and she uses a variety of processes often using more than one process to create her work. Jan uses monotype both with and without a press. Some of the monotype prints have thirty layers or more to create the finished prints. Photopolymer etching is a very important process and she uses hand drawn and photographic imagery. Jan uses linocut and loves creating prints using multi block, jigsaw and reduction techniques. She uses collagraph, cyanotype, carborundum, aquatint, etching and drypoint techniques, exploring textures, forms and interpreting the land, sea and the natural world.

Jan has worked commercially as a textile designer for many years, working for large companies both in the UK and internationally. She has lectured at Degree and MA Level together with teaching secondary and sixth form. Over the last 12 years she has worked on bespoke projects in Kenya, London, Hampshire and Dorset.

Her work is inspired by nature and is passionate about nature depletion and climate change. She draws inspiration from her close observations of the natural world, whether walking, sailing, or simply being immersed in her surroundings. Her camera, phone, and ever-present sketchbooks are essential tools for recording the environment, capturing the transient beauty of the world around her.

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  • Designer - bespoke design service - creating designs for interiors
  • Comprehensive knowledge of digital printing processes for fabric and wallpaper together with excellent computer design skills using Adobe and Affinity software.
  • Extensive knowledge home furnishings, fashion and accessories. Exhibited internationally for many years at Heimtextil, Frankfurt, Surtex New York, Decosit, Belgium, indigo, France. Worked for major manufacturers both in the UK and internationally.
  • Printmaker using a variety of processes, often mixing techniques. Monotype, aquatint, etching, photopolymer etching, linocut, collograph, drypoint, carborundum, woodblock and hybrid printmaking
  • Educator, running workshops for small groups and individuals learn both print making and art processes.
  • Lectured at degree and MA level and secondary and sixth form.
  • Bespoke designs for fabrics - Kenya, London, Hampshire and Dorset

Exhibitions

Solo show Black Chalk 2025
Collaborative group show at Spudworks 2025
Solo show Andover Lights 2024
Omega Printmakers 2024
Portsmouth Printmakers 2023/ 2024
Petersfield Museum Open Exhibition 2024
Tebbs Contemporary 2024
Portsmouth Printmakers 2023
Imagination Refinery 2023
Green & Stone Open 2022
Labyrinth gallery 2022
Tebbs Contemporary 2022
Fern & Glade 2022
NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam
Solo show, Andover lights 2022
Novacancy gallery, Melbourne 2021
Woolwich contemporary Print Fair 2021
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2019
Alresford Arts festival 2019
Hampshire Open Studios 2019
Green & Stone Summer Exhibition 2019
Shortlisted for Royal Academy Summer show 2019, Salon dew Refusés, Margate 2019
Hampshire Artists Exhibition 2018
Mottisfont Open Exhibition 2018
Alresford Arts festival 2018
Alresford Arts fair 2017
Intersection Exhibition, Badger press, Bishops Waltham 2017
Summer Exhibition Rum’s Eg, Romsey 2017
Summer Exhibition Rum’s Eg, Romsey 2016
Mottisfont Open Exhibition 2016
Elements Exhibition, badger press 2016

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