Proseprints is keen to be green, our printed greeting cards are on recycled paper, with bio-degradable cellos, we use paper based packaging and are introducing non-plastic packaging for protecting artwork. We also support a local conservation charity, donating money from the sales of our cards and artwork.

Proseprints creates unique variable edition monoprints from lino blocks that are hand painted before and after pressing.

Rose Hunter and Perry Evans. At heart we are community artists with a training in art, theatre and education.
In September 2017 we created proseprints a social enterprise partnership.
With the aim of:
* creating thoughtful affordable artwork that raises funds and awareness for local good causes
* offering accessible, fun, print and word based community workshops

Proseprints combines our two loves, art and words.

Painted prints - we use a lino cut design to create the backdrop and then hand paint each picture before printing and add finishing details in water based drawing inks. This technique enables us to create original, one off monoprints. Each painted artwork is unique and is marked as v/e or ‘variable edition’. They are painterly prints!

Who has inspired our work?
Nature - the world around us and the vibrancy of colour in nature and realisation that so much of our beloved wildlife is at risk due to human intervention.
Other Artists - the humour, colour and skill of the illustrative artist John Hanna whose prints of UK animals decorated the covers of the 1950’s Country Fair magazine, Clifford and Rosemary Ellis and their travel posters and New Naturalist book covers and . Childrens drawings - their immediacy and charm. The emotional connections to intense colour combinations found in the flower paintings of Odilon Redon and use of complementary colours by the Fauves art movement.

We have partnered with a local environmental charity - Torrington Commons Conservators - reg.no. 202804 and donate a % of the money we make from sales of our artwork and greeting cards. The work of the Commons Conservators includes the conservation of the many different habitats and special measures to support some of the rarer species found on the Commons, maintaining the public rights of way and enforcement of the bye laws. They now administer 365 acres of land surrounding the town on all but the eastern side.The area is freely accessible to all, and visitors can walk the 20 miles of footpaths. www.torringtoncommons.org

To find out more about us and what we are up to, please check out face book page. www.facebook.com/proseprintsart

We work from our home studio in North Devon - Proseprints is a relatively new adventure for us and we hope you feel as excited as we do about its potential to make a small but positive difference.

The pandemic has put on hold many of our community plans as it has for many artists, it has however brought local crafts people together to support each other and develop new digital ways of promoting their work. We are hoping for a brighter future and thinking and thanking all the amazing individuals and services whose dedication and hard work is saving lives, caring for the vulnerable, educating the young and ensuring food is in the shops, buses and trains run and our recycling is collected.

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