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Lauren Peppiatt
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Professional designer & artist
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Last of the summer Sunflowers, painted alla prima this afternoon in approx 2hrs. Sometimes flowers become even more interesting as they fade. #oilonboard #allaprima #oilpainting #sunflowers #garden
August 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Shadow on the Wheat Field recent Oil on Board, painted outside in the sweltering heat

#oilonboard #allaprima #oilpainting #enpleinair #pleinairpainting #pleinairartist #allaprimapainting #landscapeartist #britishcountryside #englishlandscapes #michaelhardingpaints
August 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Alla prima study of a red onion, when you are stuck for a subject, paint what you can find in your cupboard

#oilonboard #allaprima #oilpainting #oilstilllife #stilllife #artlife #michaelharding
Small oil painting of a red onion
August 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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I’m back at oil painting, felt I had to immortalise my bunch of fading Parrot Tulips #oilpainting #allaprima #tulips
July 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Latest print, three shells brought home from the beach years ago, now immortalised. Tetrapak with Hawthorn inks on Japanese Washi paper

#ukprintmakers #ukprintmaker #printmaker #printmaking #intaglio #collagraph #drypoint #washipaper #japanesepaper #beachcomber #shesellsseashells #burntumber
Tetrapak collagraph print of three shells, hand printed in burnt umber on Japanese washi paper
May 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Hard to believe just how much detail was picked up from these Apple carton collagraph plates. #printmaking #ukprintmaker
May 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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This week’s print reveal, a little hairy 🐷

#ukprintmakers #ukprintmaker #printmaker #printmaking #intaglio #collagraph #drypoint #pig #piggies #onthefarm #etchingpress #printprocess #artprocessvideo
May 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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New Tulip Print inspired by my garden…tetra pak collagraph with drypoint. Coloured with the À la poupée technique

#ukprintmakers #ukprintmaker #printmaker #printmaking #intaglio #drypoint #collagraph #handmade #originalartwork #tulips #inmygardentoday #inmygardennow
Original handmade intaglio print of striped Tulips
April 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Pleased with my first Intaglio print in many years! Who’d have thought a simple piece of apple carton could be used as such a great collagraph/drypoint plate material #ukprintmakers #printmaker #intaglioprint #drypoint #printmaking
April 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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First hawk moth of the year, caught by @stevepmoth.bsky.social much to the excitement of Arthur - I feel a Lime Hawk Moth print coming on! #mothsmatter #teammoth #mothonmyfinger #limehawkmoth #hawkmoth #moths #uknature
Lime Hawk Moth in a Pear Tree Small boy enjoys holding a Lime Hawk Moth on his finger Small boy holds a Like Hawk Moth on this finger near some flowers
April 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Prince the Pug is finished #linocut #printmaker #printmaking #ukprintmaker #dogart #pug
April 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Making progress on this Pug pup reduction print #ukprintmakers #pugs #dogart #printmaking #linocut
April 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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This video magnifies images of moth and butterfly wings up to 50,000 times their original size to bring to life their hidden ‘topography’, from which their recognisable shapes, colours and functions emerge
Butterflies become unrecognisable landscapes when viewed under electron microscopes | Aeon Videos
With electron microscopes that magnify butterfly wings 50,000 times their original size, a hidden ‘topography’ emerges
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April 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Sign a petition urging the government not to drop the proposed and much-needed Chalk Stream Recovery Strategy: buff.ly/4iiak1L
March 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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The English Spot Rabbit is finally finished, I think he looks happy amongst the grass and #foliage 🐰 #printpromptmonday #englishspotrabbit #ukprintmaker
March 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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New print is about to begin on my new etching press

#ukprintmaker #printmaker #pugs
March 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Penultimate layer on this English Spot Rabbit reduction print

#ukprintmakers #ukprintmaker #printmaker #printmaking #reductionlinocut #makersgonnamake #englishspotrabbit #englishspot #rabbitlife
March 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Last layer on my Lady in Red multi plate print

#printmaker #linocut #ukprintmakers #ukprintmaker #ladyinred #printmaking #reductionlinocut
February 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Taking a part of scissors to more print scraps tonight #papercollage #printmaker #collage
February 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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‘Prints don’t lie’: a platinum printer’s craft – in pictures
‘Prints don’t lie’: a platinum printer’s craft – in pictures
Photographer Christopher Thomond joins artisan printer Robert Aguilar to find out how he creates platinum palladium prints as he makes one of Alford Gardner, the Windrush pioneer who died in 2024, aged 98
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February 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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It’s taken me a few nights to finish my #PrintPromptMonday but here is my finished Blackbird collage, made printmaking scraps and swatches

#PrintPromptMonday #IntoTheWild #collage #nature #papercollage #blackbird #rspb
February 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Print Prompt Monday begins! 🎉

This week’s theme: Into the Wild. 🐍🐒🐸

I’ve taken the scissors to some print scraps to make something new

#PrintPromptMonday #IntoTheWild #collage #nature
February 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Here’s my recently completed Tiger multi-block #linocutprint I love how the transparent inks and custom mixed colours mean there’s slight variation between each print

#printmaking #printermaker #ukartist
February 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM