Kate Guy
I am a print maker and designer working with traditional materials and techniques.
I come from an artistic background; my father, Tony Guy was a graphic designer and my my mother is a fine artist.
I studied Graphic Design at Norwich School of Art where I specialised in Audio Visual Studies. In those pre-digital days all photography was analogue and we used a traditional rostrum film camera to create animations.
After leaving Art School I worked for 2 years at Richard Williams Animation studios in London and Budapest on 'The Thief and the Cobbler'. When the film sadly folded I decided to go freelance. I spent the next 10 years working as artist, designer and illustrator whilst bringing up my two daughters.
In 2002 I completed a PGCE in Art and Design at Middlesex University. I then worked for 12 years as Head of Department at a large secondary school in North West London until I left school again in 2014 to return to my first loves of printmaking and design.
I now primarily work with linocut techniques to design textiles at my studio in Camden, where I also teach printmaking to small groups of adults and children.
Here is a video of me being interviewed by Suzanne Noble for