No Two the Same

An Exhibition of Original Prints

Saturday 8th - Monday 31st March 2025

Three printmakers from the South West, Arran Willcocks, Karen Waterlow and Sarah Furby, met at the Double Elephant Print Workshop in Exeter and share a love of printmaking. The works by each artist in this exhibition demonstrate a range of printmaking techniques covering both Relief printing (Linocut and Woodcut) and Intaglio (drypoint etching and collagraph). Sometimes techniques are combined and multiple plates used to layer images.
Inspiration is drawn from multiple sources, natural and manmade but used as part of a distinct creative process. The result might be figurative or abstract and each piece encourages the observer to look at the image to see meaning. As you look each image has
the unmistakable depth and texture that the printmaking process can produce.

Each print in the show is completely handmade at every stage, often using hand torn paper. Some works are monoprints which are therefore by definition completely unique. Other prints are part of small editions where tiny variations are part of the hand printing process. Works can also be hand finished or embellished.

All the works in the show are linked by their unique handprinted qualities. No two the same! March 2025

Artist Statements

Arran Willcocks

My career in art and design education lasted 40 years, primarily teaching A-level students and including a fair amount of fine art and textiles printmaking. The students’ capacity for enthusiastic experimentation was endlessly stimulating, so the learning always went two ways. On retirement in 2015, I joined the Double Elephant Print Workshop to develop my own practice working alongside people with a comparable interest in printmaking and this provided me with the means to extend ideas and processes I had touched on over the years. I have used a range of intaglio techniques to develop visual ideas derived from historic architecture and artefacts as well as botanic forms. The print surface also enables further manipulation using painting, collage and stitch. I find it’s in the patterns that emerge from the examples of human ingenuity and imagination, as well as the way changing light is endlessly transformative, that is at the heart of what I do.
Contact: arranwillcocks@yahoo.co.uk

Karen Waterlow

I returned to making art after many years working and not being creative. I rediscovered my enjoyment of printmaking after attending a taster workshop at the Double Elephant Print Workshop and over 10 years later I haven’t looked back! I am now a member and board director of Double Elephant and very committed to developing my print practice. I’m also a member of the Wooden Spoon Press who are based in Teignmouth and I established the Nature Under Pressure collective with Sarah Furby to highlight environmental concerns through printmaking. Much of my work is inspired by the beaches and cliffs of the Jurassic coast and the west country. I work from both photographs and sketchbook practice to create studies which I then develop into plates for printing. I am very concerned with the state of our beaches and
water quality, often reflecting these themes in my work and responding to environmental concerns.
Contact: karenwaterlowprintmaker@gmail.com social media: karenwaterlowprintmaker

Sarah Furby

I’m an Exeter based artist/printmaker. As a member of Double Elephant Print workshop over the last 7 years I’ve become hooked on the processes involved in printmaking: experimenting between relief and intaglio methods and the endless possibilities each technique provides. Decisions depend on my direction and subject matter. I love that with collagraph and monoprint, the textures in recycled humble materials can be repurposed into
dynamic designs. My starting points are often triggered by colours, patterns ad cycles found in nature: acknowledging its power and ingenuity. My work often highlights the increasing weight of pressure all nature is under; and Karen and I are encouraged by the enthusiasm of fellow printmakers contribution to 3 successful local
exhibitions on this theme. From the natural world, we have much to admire and learn.
“Everywhere the survival of individuals depends on the strength of the community, organisms work in teams” (The Power of Trees: Peter Wohlleben).
As an artist often working alone, I appreciate the support and access to the Double Elephant Print Workshop that being a member provides. Its continuing development and existence
very much depends on the strength of the collective, in all its diversity.
Contact: sez_furby@hotmail.co.uk social media: sarahfurbyartmaker