Some amazing sites for information and inspiration on print makers...

Blogs and Sites...

www.clivechristy.com
- all things printed. A beautiful and pain-stakingly critiqued and catalogued collection of printers.

haji-b.blogspot.com
- again, another wonderful collection of prints and other art works.

inkygoodness.com
- lots of current artists and print makers - showcasing work, events and exhibitions throughout the UK.

(Artist Lillian Miller. Image from www.clivechristy.com/2011/06/lilian-may-miller-usa-1895-1943.html)

Centres

Regional Print Centre - This centre based in Wrexham provides workshops, facilities and demonstrations on various forms of printing. They have a programme of exhibitions and events and calendar of sessions for people to learn about different processes.

I still have a copy of a postcard promoting the centre by Luci Melegari - beautiful effect of layered textures.
Inspired me to make a screenprinted piece using a similar washed-out, faded effect.

Prints from Afar...

Close-up of the textures and layers of a Joan Miró print from Soller. (Sept 2011)
It was a well curated exhibition; good visual narrative of the pieces and there were a few larger minimal, expansive pieces that whose styleI had not come accross before. But I couldn't seem to find titles anywhere, which made me slightly disappointed. There were was seemed to be poetic quotes on the wall, but no information.

Also...

http://www.thehumanprinter.org/

"Unlike any other printer the human printer creates unique, individual images each time it prints. Following the same process as a digital printer, the human printer generates the printed product by hand. Throughout the printing process the human printer assumes the role of the machine and is therefore controlled and restricted by the process of using CMYK halftones created on the computer."

I think that using human hand as a machine is a fascinating play on what we use machines for and really how we couldn't live without them.

I think this particular approach is a good example though of how a process is clearly visible in the end work, but doesn't really stand as a piece on its own. With this though, I don't think you could read it any other way. You know what it is about, even without any explanation.