Jo Biggadike
​​Based in Cheltenham, full-time artist Jo creates original, limited-edition collagraph and linocut prints. Her work captures the deep emotional connection between a landscape and the experience of a woman walking through it.
Jo's creative process begins outdoors. As she walks through the rural countryside, she uses sketching to record both the visual scenery and the feelings the environment around her evokes.
Back in her studio, she transforms these sketches into textured, atmospheric prints, capturing the natural beauty of the land.
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Jo is currently an AA2A Artist in Residence at Gloucestershire College for 2025 -2026
“I love the marks and textures that are made in creating collagraph and lino prints and the inking process where colours blend together, allowing my love of colour and pattern from my career in textiles to continue.”
Jo originally studied Textile Design at Chelsea School of Art. After which, she worked as a designer specialising in furnishing prints for 8 years where she created designs for fabrics and wallpapers.
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She wanted to move away from the more commercial printing processes of the Textile Industry and to a more handcrafted and personal way of making prints. She finds that the collagraph and linocut process give her this freedom. For her, creating the plate, or carving the lino, inking it up, and printing by hand is both meditative and rewarding. Each print is unique, its character influenced by the materials and techniques used.
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In 2021 she completed a Masters in Illustration and now sells her work both internationally and in the UK, regularly exhibiting in various exhibitions across the Southwest, Wales and Midlands both in solo shows and as part of a collectives. She has been accepted to exhibit at the Royal Birmingham Society of Arts and has also been an artist in residence at Nature in Art, a museum and art gallery in Gloucestershire that focuses on art inspired by the natural world.
​Jo Biggadike Printmaker in the media
January 2022
Cotswolds National Landscape Cotswolds Lion Magazine
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