New in the Hallmark Room

This month the Hallmark Room is dedicated to the work of Janis Goodman has worked as a printmaker in Leeds for over thirty years.

She has a background in architecture and alongside this worked as a cartoonist, with work published in Spare Rib and the New Statesman. She moved from London in 1982 to work with Leeds Animation Workshop, making feminist films on social issues for nearly thirty years. Here she was responsible for many of the films’ backgrounds, drawing landscapes and buildings in different styles and materials. During the 1980’s Janis started printmaking at an evening class at Leeds College of Art and Design and felt straight away that etching was the technique she found most appealing. After years of evening classes and using friends’ presses she set up a studio. Here she creates etchings of the Dales and Yorkshire landscapes, cityscapes, flaura and fauna.