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Jane Sampson
Jane is a a graduate of Exeter University and the Barber
institute Birmingham University. She has researched printmaking for
Brighton University and is well known for her teaching both there
and at her own studio Inkspot Press. She frequently exhibits at the
Affordable Art Fair in London and Printfest in Cumbria, and won the
John Purcell prize at the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers in
London. Her work is in private and corporate collections, at The
Mappin Art Gallery and at the Printmakers Council.
Describe your approach to teaching:
Relaxed - with printmaking you learn by practicing, experimenting
and making mistakes along the way. My job is to inspire and guide
people along this path with the benefit of my experience.
What inspires your own work?
Old photographs, films and books, collage, texture and
materials.
My own photographs and drawings and computer manipulations. The
process of discovery. The process of transformation. The endless
possibilities when combining all of the above.