Mick Manning

Mick Manning grew up in Haworth, Yorkshire and Studied at Bradford College and Newcastle Polytechnic before attaining a 3-year scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1984. At the RCA, his teachers included Sheila Robinson, Quentin Blake, Bob Godfrey, Anne Howeson and John Norris Wood.

In 1990, he devised a 3-year Illustration degree programme for The Glasgow School of Art, which he ran until 1998 before leaving to concentrate on his own artistic private practice. Alums from this drawing-based illustration course include, among others, Mark Hearld.

In 2015, Mick was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Bradford College and gave the Commencement Address at St George’s Hall. He is also one of 175 Bradford Heroes.

Mick has appeared on radio and film, most recently in the 2020 Arena documentary Responses to the Three Faces of Bradford.

Mick exhibits with St Jude’s Prints, Godfrey & Watt and Edinburgh’s Open Eye Gallery, dividing his time between the Scottish Borders and a timber ‘stuga’ in Sweden.

The stencil print or pochoir technique

The term pochoir refers to the art of using stipple application and hand-cut negative and positive stencil shapes. This may be within the context of a mixed media painting, or in its purest form, where random variation and intentional mis-registration become intrinsic to the work.