Mick Manning

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

In 1990, he devised an Illustration degree programme for Glasgow School of Art, which he ran for eight years until 1998 before leaving to concentrate on his own practice. Alumni of the course include Mark Hearld.

In 2015, Mick received an Honorary Fellowship from Bradford College and gave the Commencement Address at St George's Hall; he is also one of 175 Bradford Heroes, and has appeared on radio and film, most recently in the 2020 Arena documentary Responses to the Three Faces of Bradford.

He divides 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.