KATIE PRESTON is a printmaker and artist whose practice combines technical processes with intuitive mark-making. She studied Maths and Philosophy at Bristol University and worked as an editorial director in illustrated non-fiction publishing for 20 years before completing a Foundation art diploma in 2019. She has been screen-printing ever since, always searching for new ways to create her vivid, multi-layered limited edition prints. 

Katie finds inspiration and beauty in everyday views, tube stations, bridges, park gates and paths, taking photographs to provide a starting point for the prints, which she takes through many digital and analogue processes to break down the image and build it back up again layer by layer, ready for the screen-print process. The resulting prints barely resemble the starting photographs, as they are transformed into work that more closely resembles a 19th century Japanese woodcut or a book illustration.

Katie is a member of Art Can, an international non-profit organisation the empowers artists by creating opportunities for collaborating and exhibiting.

She is also co-director of Common Works Gallery CIC, a non profit that aims to showcase artists in southwest London and create opportunities for them to sell work and share their skills through workshops and commissions.