Guy Butters

I turned to full-time printmaking in 2016 after 25+ years in commercial branding and communication consultancy. It was time for me to stop crafting other people's images and start making my own. My work covers a diverse range of subjects, styles and techniques, but is linked by a single thread: how we look at the world. I work from my own, original photography and drawing, digitally manipulating images and hand-printing them to share the way I see things, be that beautiful, contradictory, sublime or ironic. The slow, painstaking process of preparing and printing images helps me to slow down instantaneous digital image-making and hopes to slow down the way in which others look at the world; to stop and take a second look, and to enjoy those moments that would be lost otherwise.

BA Hons Visual Communication, Edinburgh College of Art, 1988

Route des Artistes, St-Rémy-de-Provence, 2016
Lasting Impressions (Printmakers' Council UK contemporary print archive), Scarborough Museum and Art Gallery, 2017