Who is helen ingham

Essential coronavirus info Your safety is our first priority. I have my own workshop in Luton, which houses my collection of printing presses and type. I operate under the name Hi-Artz Press. Most of my design and illustration work is letterpress based, although I regularly produce a Mac based piece of design for print for Ace Cafe London's magazine.

Graphic Design, printing and music have always been interlinked with me. I have played music and printed stuff to promote it, since I was small. I used to print tickets posters and handbills for gigs using linocuts and rubber stamps. I also started to develop an interest in letterforms and type through this. When I left education the first time around I worked for a local offset litho printer, which I loved. This was pre-Mac and I used to do layouts and paste-up by hand, as well as making plates in the darkroom.

After years of doing whatever was legal to finance music and other projects, I returned to education and ended up doing the MACD course here in I'd gone full circle having learnt how to use digital technology, then rejecting it, with a desire to return to working with older methods and get my hands dirty again as in my first jb at the print company. One day I had a call from CSM telling me the letterpress technician was on long-term sick leave and could I cover until he returned.

Eventually the CSM technician retired and I ended up doing his job permanently. Everything that comes out of a letterpress workshop is hard won, you have to work at it to be any good and really plan thing well, but that makes the rewards far greater! I get such a huge rush when a print job goes right.

When I return to working onscreen, I find the choices I make with type and composition are much more confident as a result. This is an exciting Renaissance period in design of all kinds. The old guys who started as apprentices are still alive, so their knowledge can be directly accessed by the new generation of designers who have a high level of digital literacy - so all these processes are working together now and we are part of it. It's not digital vs.

A colleague of mine once described it as a collection of waifs and strays of whom Saint Martin was the patron saint. Certain people here and I include myself in this are eccentric and obsessive and don't always fit in with the norms of society. This is what it can be to be highly creative. Founded by Simon and Angie Lewin in , our online gallery presents a selection of limited edition original prints — available for purchase.

We showcase the very best in British printmaking with limited edition prints from artists including Angie Lewin , Mark Hearld , Jonny Hannah , Christopher Brown and many more. You might also like to find us on Instagram and Facebook. Keep up to date with events here at St. Helen Ingham Helen Ingham is an artist-printer and designer who began researching and using letterpress in , setting up the Hi-Artz Press in her back bedroom. No products found in this collection.