Jo Boddy Printmaker

Handmade, original prints exploring our connection with landscape

5 x 2.5m collage of prints depicting the River Thames meander around the Isle of Dogs with a tower crane made of wood on either side.

2m tall starboard lateral marker buoy saying 'Welcome' in languages spoken in the countries where Clifford Chance has offices.

Detail showing prints collaged with stitch.

5 x 2.5m collage of prints depicting the River Thames meander around the Isle of Dogs with a tower crane made of wood on either side.
About my Art Practice
​I am a printmaker based on the Surrey/Berkshire border, exploring our relationship with landscape and the ways we form emotional attachments to place. My work considers not only how we experience landscape physically, but also the feelings, memories and connections the natural world evokes within us. These landscapes are not untouched wildernesses, but living records of human action and attitude over millennia, carrying visible and invisible layers of memory.
My prints ask viewers to pause and consider the quiet power of place: how landscapes root us, hold traces of our collective past, and shape questions about how we might live in the future. Each print becomes both a reaction to a specific place and an invitation for viewers to reconnect with landscapes of their own experience. Central to my practice is a desire to encourage greater ecological awareness through attentiveness, memory and connection to our landscapes.
The technical processes in printmaking require patience and practise, yet it is an art form offering rich possibilities for experimentation. I work across multiple printmaking techniques, allowing processes to inform and expand one another, generating a diverse visual language. My practice-led research approach means the making itself becomes part of the enquiry, where process, material and experience continually interact and evolve.
Alongside editioned prints, I create large-scale, site-responsive collaged 2D and 3D works that incorporate stitch as well as print. These works explore alternative ways of responding to landscape while also reflecting on the very materials and processes used to create them.
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You can watch a 5 minute film about my practice.
This was made for the final unit of MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in spring 2024.
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I featured in the March 2026 Handprinted 'Meet the Maker' blog.

Awards
​2025
UAL/Clifford ​Chance Sculpture Award 2025 Winner
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2024
Named in UAL 'Future 50 Founders and Freelancers' 2024
UAL Graduate Award Nominee - Post Graduate Show, Central Saint Martins
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2021
Lucie Green Printmakers Prize - Southbank Printmakers Mini Print Competition, London
Testimonials
"The print perfectly captures what it feels like in the forest"
Darren
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​"I love that Jo's work is like having the forest that I love so much on my walls as well as on my doorstep"
Claire
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"You can tell you love that forest as much as I do!"
Heather
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"Once again you have captured the soul of Swinley"
Dan​​
"I could see this at Frieze"
Cia Director at WCPF (now Imprint Art Fair) speaking about
'Where Fortunes Flow and Mud Remembers'
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Education
​2022-2024 MA Fine Art UAL Central Saint Martins (Distinction)
2018-2021 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design West Dean College
​Featured on WeDirectory — curated creative directory
