Paul Croft qualified as a Master Printer at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque in 1996 and currently is Senior Lecturer in 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 and the Royal Cambrian Academy in 2022.

 

From a positive perspective, the Covid-19 lockdown provided opportunities for reflection and review. Daily walks across to the harbour and Tan Y Bwlch in Aberystwyth inspired a change in direction, in which flotsam and jetsam and the general paraphernalia associated with fishing boats have allowed prints to evolve through drawing, assemblage, and abstract composition, largely realized through lithography and linocut.