About

Printmaker | Designer

Steve Osborne is a printmaker producing hand-carved, hand-printed, limited edition prints using the deceptively simple medium of linocut. His reduction linocuts can often involve multiple layers and much deliberation. He carves from a single block of lino, printing the lightest colour first, then cuts into the same block for the next colour, and so on until the final darkest colour.

This means that a work can never be repeated, making the small editions of prints collectible. He also utilises a multi-plate method, where each colour abuts another like a stencil, rather than overlaid as for a reduction linocut.

As well as birds, animals, and landscapes, other areas of interest for Steve are striking architecture, mythical traditions (the stranger, the better), and music culture. Living in Melbourne’s south-east – close to the ocean and bush, city and suburbia, density and open space – he finds a plentiful supply of subject matter.  

Steve is available for commissions, collaborations, and other opportunities to mess about with ink, so please get in touch.