About Jo Biggadike

Jo Biggadike is a full-time artist, living in Cheltenham. She 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.

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.

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.

Her work focuses on her connection with the surrounding rural landscape of the Cotswolds. All her work is created from her drawings whilst out walking. She wants to capture the feeling that a place evokes, and it is as much about the emotion of a place as it is about the visual elements. From her drawings, she then creates her original, limited edition, collagraph and lino cut prints.