Aberystwyth Printmakers Directors
Judy Macklin is Chair and Membership Secretary, a practising printmaker for more than 40 years and a founding member of Aberystwyth Printmakers. Specialising in abstract and figurative relief prints of landscapes, she has exhibited and undertaken residences worldwide, actively promoting printmaking through teaching in schools, further and higher education in the UK and overseas. In recognition of her contribution to printmaking nationally and internationally she has been awarded honorary creative fellowships at both University of Lincoln, UK, and La Trobe University, Australia. Judy was a very early advocate for interdisciplinary art-science focusing on the watery realm and the climate crisis, and co-led projects with archaeologists, ecologists and geoscientists in Australia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, Spain and the UK.
Jenny Fell is Secretary and Editor of the newsletter and all other publicity material. A founder member of Aberystwyth Printmakers, she mainly produces lino-cut prints, using Chine collée as well as the reduction method. Recently she has rekindled her love of etching. Themes include the wildlife and landscape of Wales. Jenny has several decades’ experience as a tutor in many forms of printmaking: screen-printing, relief printing and etching in varied Arts in Health settings and has exhibited widely throughout the UK.
Caroline Maddison is responsible for managing the Print Club. Caroline is a practicing printmaker with a keen interest in Screenprint.
I became interested in Printmaking during my time as a student of Life Long Learning at Aberystwyth University.
I joined Aberystwyth Printmakers nearly 20 years ago and have been fortunate to learn various techniques from some of the best Printmakers.
Stuart Evans is a workshop supervisor and also organizes various Aberystwyth Printmaker exhibitions. Stuart is a founder member of Aberystwyth Printmakers and has served as a director for twenty years.
Stuart mainly produces lino-cuts and dry-point prints. He completed an MA in printmaking at The School of Art, Aberystwyth University in 2012.
Charlotte Baxter responsible for overseeing the group’s finances, maintaining membership records, and managing the online shop. She has also organised exhibitions and print fairs for the group. Charlotte is a practising printmaker specialising in woodcut and linocut, and more recently has been developing her skills in lithography and etching. Her work is inspired by the landscape and the natural world. She exhibits widely throughout Wales and delivers several workshops each year. She has been an elected member of the Royal Cambrian Academy since 2024 and a director of Aberystwyth Printmakers since 2022 and is currently furthering her practice by studying for an MA at Aberystwyth University.
Isobel Lewis is responsible for the newsletter, all publicity material, Facebook posts and updates to the website. She also monitors the email. Isobel is a graphic designer, book artist and printmaker.
She makes prints and artist books as ‘The Kelpie Press’. Isobel also runs workshops and Print club sessions at AP.
Flora McLachlan is responsible for the Print Collectors’ Club. She teaches courses in etching, manages the etching facilities and offers etching inductions to new members. Flora also enjoyed collaborating with artist John Abell to produce a beautiful etching for our Print Collectors’ Club print in 2025. Flora is a professional artist printmaker based in North Pembrokeshire, working in etching and stone lithography. Flora hosts print residencies and makes editions with invited artists in her own workshop. She is also a Lecturer in Fine Art at Aberystwyth University, teaching Printmaking. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and of the Royal Cambrian Academy.
Marian Haf is responsible for organising workshops.
She is a fine art painting graduate and self-taught printmaker working from her garden studio in Ffair Rhos.
She works predominately with collographs.
Associate Directors
Dr Kerrie Farrar
My work at IBERS has focused on the tropical grass Miscanthus which is grown as a sustainable biomass crop to substitute fossil fuels. Miscanthus originates in Southeast Asia where it has a rich cultural history and diverse uses, including for papermaking.
I first met with AP members during their visit to IBERS in 2022 when discussed the possibility of realising a long-held dream of mine to make paper from Miscanthus grown here in Aberystwyth.
In a collaborative project with Stuart Evans, Judy Macklin, Viv Mullet and others, we achieved this and held an exhibition of works by artists and scientists in 2023.
Mary-Ann Constantine is Professor at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. She studies the literature and history of Romantic period Wales and has a particular interest in travel writing, environmental history and the cultural politics of Britain and Ireland in the 1790s.
She has written about the literary forger Iolo Morganwg, Wales and the French Revolution, and the naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant. Her work on landscape has led to various stimulating collaborations with the Aberystwyth Printmakers, including ‘Maps and Makers/ Mapio Creu’ (2014), Curious Travellers (2017) and, most recently, ‘Ar Lan y Mor/On the Seashore’ (2025).
Dr Jessica Adams is a senior research scientist at IBERS, Aberystwyth University, where her work focuses on the chemical composition and utilisation of seaweeds; and the President of the British Phycological society (2026-2028) which is dedicated to academic developments in all algae.
She was approached by Aberystwyth Printmakers in summer 2024 and has been on an art-science collaboration journey with them since then, from beach tours to presentations at IBERS to local newspaper press releases. Jessica made her first lino print in 2025 and thoroughly enjoyed the whole process, from developing the image idea, through the physical cutting process, to the final inking and printing stages.
She is thoroughly committed to more art-science collaborations in future and is already considering future print designs.
Professor Mark Macklin (Emeritus Professor of River Systems and Global Change, University of Lincoln, UK; Senior Research Fellow, University of Exeter, UK) is internationally recognised as one of the leading authorities on long-term human-river environment interactions, and metal mining pollution and its impact on river systems. He is also a pioneer of interdisciplinary art-geoscience, co-leading projects on the watery realm and the climate crisis in Australia, New Zealand, Romania, and Wales. Mark’s career spans more than four decades of research across five continents, and he currently leads the groundbreaking ‘Rivers of the Silk Roads’ Leverhulme Trust funded project in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan investigating how water shaped societies and empires in Central Asia. With over 250 peer-reviewed publications including landmark studies in Science, Nature, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and more than 20,000 scholarly citations, he is among the most influential river scientist working today.
Honoured with the Murchison Award of the Royal Geographical Society and elected an inaugural Fellow of the British Society for Geomorphology, Mark has also held senior academic chairs in the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. He has acted as an expert advisor to UNESCO and national governments on mine tailings dam failures, flood risk, river heritage, and environmental change.