Paul Croft qualified as a Master Printer at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque in 1996 and now teaches printmaking at the School of Art in Aberystwyth. He has written and published two books on Stone Lithography (2001) and Plate Lithography (2003). He was elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society Painter Printmakers in 2008

 

For Croft where the development of visual language is foremost: inspired as much by objets trouvés, museum artifacts, flotsam and jetsam besides a fascination for the etymology of language, alphabets and writing; prints evolve through drawing, assemblage, abstract composition, largely realized through stone and plate lithography.