1944 - 2013

Dorothea Wight was a british artist and printmaker whose work is included in a number of important international collections including the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum. 

Dorothea was born in Devon, England, Dorothea studied fine art at Dartington College of Art from 1963 to 1964. She then moved to London to study painting at the Slade school of Fine Art from 1964 to 1968.

On completing her studies she established an editioning and platemaking workshop for
intaglio called Studio Prints which ran for four decades, until 2011.

As a visiting lecturer she established the etching department at the Holmes Rd. part of Camden Institute in London. She also taught printmaking in various art schools including The Royal College of Art, Cambridge School of Art, Brighton School of Art, Medway College and Morley College in London. She was an Honorary member of the Royal Society of Painter-etchers.

Dorothea died on the 23rd of May 2013 at her home in Muswell Hill, London.

At a Printmakers Workshop - BBC documentary from 1970

This 1970 BBC film follows the work done at Studio Prints, the workshop opened by Dorothea in 1968 which became responsible for printing the etchings of many prominent British artists of the last 40 years, including Lucien Freud, Frank Auerbach, Ken Kiff, Julian Trevelyan, R. B. Kitaj, Celia Paul and Stephen Conroy.