About John Bloor

After working as a graphic designer and illustrator for over 20 years, I began printmaking in 2015, mainly creating gig posters, and then moved into the style and area I’m known for now. I became a full-time printmaker in 2020 and began developing my own style and ways of working in creating prints and homewares.

The first series of prints was called Winter Drifts, featuring animals in two colour linocuts. I loved creating these, and animals featured prominently in my screenprints, including the Sleeping Animals and Majestic Animals series.

My love of the coast, especially Cornwall, has enabled me to develop my style and way of working. You can see this in my ongoing Safe Harbours series.

Inspired by places which are special to me, places which are off the beaten track or which instil the feeling of having discovered somewhere secret, I started to work on these as illustrations that I could develop into prints. These representations of these special, secret and safe places bring me some calm, and hopefully to others as well.

I enjoy experimenting with mark-making, creating textures with brushes, rollers, blocks and scraping. Using my experience as both a designer and illustrator, I enjoy overprinting and using graphical boldness in both colour and shape, combining them with more traditional printing methods.

Over the past couple of years I’ve enjoyed working on commissions for the National Trust and Dartmoor National Park.

I’ve also loved producing new pieces with my creative partner and wife, Alice, on print fabrics that become purses and cases.

Printmaking has given me the opportunity to express myself in a way that I felt limited as a graphic designer; it allows me the freedom I need as an autistic artist.

 

John Bloor Printmaker

12 B Laverstoke Lane

Laverstoke Hampshire

RG28 7NY

 

Email: shopify@johnbloor.co.uk