Jane Cradock-Watson

Jane Cradock-Watson is a printmaker and book artist. Her work is primarily focused on the conceptualisation of the garden and the landscape. Her work takes the form of handmade prints and artists books. She is interested in the relationship between nature, landscape and the human condition, as well as the haptic nature of printmaking and artists books. Materiality is a key aspect of Janes work. She likes to utilise the material properties of different papers and physical layers of printmaking to explore the often hidden layers of narrative within an image or book. She likes to use a range of print processes, from photopolymer to etched lino, woodcut and collagraph, often combining processes within one print to create prints with a more textural and layered quality. Jane has had successful careers both as an Illustrator and an Academic at a University. She now spends much of her time concentrating on her own work. She exhibits both her prints and artists books regularly at venues such as the Small Publishers fair, the Bristol Artists Book Event, the Upright Gallery Edinburgh, the Watts Gallery, The Oxo Gallery, and RE Printmakers ‘Small but Mighty’ print exhibition at the Bankside Gallery. Her artists books are held in major private and public collections in both the UK and Internationally including the Yale Collection of British Art, Tate Britain, the Bodleian Library and the V&A.