A Conversation With Printmaker Lucy Rodgers

Join host Lisa Takahashi in South Somerset for a studio visit with printmaker Lucy Rodgers. Together, they explore how personal stories, everyday objects, and the reduction linocut process shape Lucy’s colourful, expressive prints.

This episode is part of Ask an Artist, a series from the Jackson’s Art Podcast hosted by Lisa Takahashi.

Lucy discusses her journey from sculpture to screen printing to relief printmaking, how painting and sketchbook drawings help her develop ideas, and the challenges and creative possibilities of reduction linocut.

She shares how sentimental objects, family memories, and the South Downs landscape are inspiring a new direction in her still life prints, as well as how her wood engraving pushes her printmaking practice further. The conversation also explores finding your artistic voice, overcoming creative blocks, embracing mistakes, and learning to work with the unpredictable nature of printmaking.

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In our Ask an Artist series, our host – artist, writer, and workshop facilitator – Lisa Takahashi, leads insightful conversations with guest artists in their studios and at exhibitions and events, capturing both their practice and the atmosphere surrounding their work. Lisa explores the many facets of being an artist through conversations with a wide range of practitioners and people from across the art world. We’ll talk about creativity, making, exhibiting, and everything in between.

Lisa is a British-Japanese artist-printmaker, writer, and founder of Isle Print Studio, where she teaches relief printmaking techniques.

This podcast was written, recorded, and produced by the Jackson’s Team.

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