KATIE PRESTON is a printmaker and graphic designer whose art practice combines technical processes with intuitive mark-making. She studied Maths and Philosophy at university and worked as an editorial director in illustrated non-fiction publishing for 20 years before completing a Foundation Art Diploma in 2019. She has been screen-printing since 2018, always searching for new ways to create her vivid, multi-layered limited edition prints.
Katie finds inspiration in everyday views, tube stations, bridges, park gates and woodland paths, using her photographs to provide a starting point for the prints, which she takes through many digital and analogue processes to break down the image and build it back up again layer by layer ready for the screen-print process.
Katie is also co-director of Common Works Gallery CIC, a non profit organisation, that aims to showcase artists in southwest London and create opportunities for them to sell work and share their skills through workshops and commissions.