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Lorraine
Chitson - Centre Director
David
Ferry - Director Academic Development
Stanley
Jones Hon. D.Litt. - Studio Director Curwen Press Master Printer/Tutor
Penny
Brewill - Tutor
Susan
Jones - Tutor
 Lorraine
Chitson was a senior commercial
manager for a blue chip company for 21 years. Her last five
years were spent managing and restructuring their graphic
design studio following a review she conducted on behalf of
the main board. It
was a successful partnership merging the creative and commercial
strengths to establish a centre of excellence for design.
In
2001 an opportunity arose to manage and develop the Curwen
Print Study Centre. It allowed Lorraine to use her commercial
and marketing strengths in a creative field. It also gave
the opportunity to promote and fulfil her interest in education.
With The Head of Art at Linton Village College she has established
a successful business partnership for which they both received
an Education Resources Award in 2002.
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 David
Ferry was born in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1957.
He studied art at the Blackpool College of Technology and
later at the Camberwell and Slade schools of art in London.
His period of study at Camberwell coincided with the punk
rock phenomena and he sees this as having great importance
in relation to his studies and creative influences. "I
remember going to the preview of Derek Jarman's Jubilee (1977)
and being excited by the rich interplay of social characterisation
and setting".
David Ferry is now concentrating on producing Artists Books.
A national touring exhibition of these works began in 1999.
Aspects of this exhibition had been seen in New York, Poland,
France and in the sixth Wexford Artist's Book exhibition in
Ireland. David Ferry is currently the Head of Print making
at the Winchester School of Art and throughout 2000 was a
visiting Professor at the Long Island University in New York.
He was awarded a Pollock-Krasner foundation award in 2002.
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Stanley
Jones Hon. D.Litt
My early training was in Wigan School of Art and from there
I attended Slade School of Fine Art in London. Following my
studies in London, I moved to Paris to work at the Ecole de
Beaux Arts for a time before moving to the Atelier Patris,
Montparnasse in Paris where I gained much experience in stone
and zinc plate lithography and was also fortunate enough to
work with artists like Giacometti, Le Moal, Sugaii, Severini
and Soulages etc.
In
1958 Robert Erskine persuaded me to return to London to help
set up The Curwen Studio and create an environment in which
artists had the freedom to work in printmaking. At the same
time I took up a post at the Slade School to lecture in lithography.
It was a perfect combination for my skills working with artists,
students and to produce my own work.
Until
recently I have been President of the Print Makers Council,
which I helped to found in 1964 and have recently handed over
the chairmanship after many years of involvement in the society's
work.
Despite
my busy life either working at Curwen or teaching in the Study
Centre I have found the time to pursue my own career as an
artist. I work in lithography and painting and have been having
one-man shows as well as participating in mixed exhibitions
in the UK and abroad. My work is in private and public collections
throughout the world.
My
whole life has been devoted to printmaking, in particular
the art of lithography. It has become more apparent over the
years that there is a need for a central educational establishment
to continue the varied methods of printmaking skills. It gives
me great satisfaction to see the successful establishment
of my vision.
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 Penny
Brewill - Tutor
I have an art school background and studied Fine Art at the
university of the West of England in Bristol and postgraduate
printmaking at The Slade School of Fine Art in London, where
I taught for three years. I am a lecturer on the BA and MA
printmaking Courses at Winchester School of Art.
I
have won several prizes and awards for my prints. In 1996
I won The Boise Scholarship to research print studios and
water based screen printing inks in the USA. My research and
fascination in printmaking materials led me into consultancy
work for John Purcell Paper, London. I am a practising artist,
regularly exhibiting printed constructions in solo and group
shows throughout the UK and Europe. Recent commissions include
a 3D print installation for the head office of Nokia.
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Susan
Jones - Tutor
After my youngest child started school I decided to follow
my creative side and go to Art College.  I
studied Illustration full time at Anglia Polytechnic University,
which was hard work, but with much support from my family
I persevered graduating with a first class honours degree.
A series of my paintings to illustrate sonnets by Elizabeth
Barrett Browning were selected to exhibit in Platform One
an exhibition of work by the best of the Eastern Region graduates
2000 at Market Cross Gallery, Bury St. Edmunds. Recently my
work has been exhibited at the Darryl Nantais Gallery, Linton.
I have been studying lithography with Stanley Jones at the
Curwen Press and studying part-time for an MA in Children's
Book Illustration at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge.
I teach Print making at the Curwen Print Study Centre across
a variety of different techniques to students and artists
of varying ability. I thoroughly enjoy the challenge and satisfaction
that each different day brings.
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