An exhibition of work by four highly talented artists living and working in Kansas City – Cecilia Bakker, Laura Berman, Hammerpress and Hugh Merrill – presents the art of printmaking through a selection of unique and original styles and techniques.

Their work is featured amongst that of 45 international artists in Richard Noyce’s forthcoming book ‘Printmaking at the Edge’ which explores the innovative techniques printmakers are using today. It includes work and interviews with prominent international artists, revealing the secrets behind their work and the possibilities for the future. The book incorporates a worldwide list of artists from the UK, Europe, North America, the Far East, Australia, Argentina, Nicaragua, Lithuania, Iceland and Iraq. Richard Noyce lives and works in Powys, and this is his third book on contemporary visual art.

Cecilia Bakker is Assistant to the Master Printer at the Lawrence Lithography Workshop in Kansas City. She makes art-works by shifting fluidly between traditional print techniques, photography, digital techniques, transfer processes, installation, and images derived from installations translated through traditional print techniques.

Laura Berman is currently an Assistant Professor and Head of the Printmaking Program at the Kansas City Art Institute. She works with sequence and multiples in non-traditional formats and her current work explores installation as a medium combined with hand printed images. She has created site-specific exhibitions at numerous venues throughout the USA, such as Avenue of the Arts (Kansas City), Arthur Rogers Gallery (New Orleans) and Emerge Gallery (Greenville).

Letterpress print shop Hammerpress is based in the creative quarter of Kansas City, Missouri. The lead partner is Brady Best, who, working with Dave Best and with their associates creates an original, and sometimes iconoclastic, form of print art that incorporates such techniques as woodcut and block-making.

Artist, educator and writer Hugh Merrill is noted as a printmaker who creates innovative series of sequential etchings. His artwork has been exhibited internationally and his work has been collected by major Museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Harvard Art Museums, and the Nelson Atkins Museum among others.

The book will be on sale at CBAT Gallery for the duration of the exhibition and is published by A&C Black priced £35 (ISBN 0 7136 6784 2). For further information please contact pete@printmarketworkshop.co.uk / 029 2039 4999