Warner Road Studios was established in 2025 in the former home of Thumbprint Editions. Its roots reach back through Thumbprint to Hope Sufferance Press, placing the workshop within a long tradition of collaborative printmaking in South London.
Publisher Charles Booth-Clibborn founded the studio in partnership with Master Printer Peter Bennett, bringing its specialist presses, equipment and production team to the South London workshop where Bennett had first trained under Thumbprint founder Pete Kosowicz.
Their partnership brings together two closely connected perspectives: Booth-Clibborn’s experience commissioning and publishing editions, and Bennett’s experience leading print studios and working directly with artists on the press. The aim was to preserve the rare knowledge and physical capability already held within the workshop while giving it fresh direction.
Warner Road now works independently with artists, galleries and publishers across intaglio, relief and woodcut. Artists are invited into the studio to work alongside the printers, test ideas and develop projects at a scale that would otherwise be difficult to access. The workshop becomes an extension of the artist’s own practice.
Since opening, Warner Road has produced projects with artists including Antony Gormley, Ian Davenport, Cornelia Parker, Pam Evelyn, Andrea Büttner, Stuart Franklin and Tristano di Robilant.
The history of the workshop carries real weight. Its focus now is on the work still to be made.
Warner Road is built around a core team of seven specialist printers, supported by a wider network of freelance printmakers and practising artists.
Almost the entire production team moved directly from Thumbprint Editions into Warner Road. With them came years of shared practice: an instinctive understanding of the presses, the materials and the particular demands of producing complex editions at scale.
Several members of the team are practising artists themselves. That experience matters. It brings an understanding of how ideas develop, how materials can resist them, and how much can be discovered through testing, adjustment and return.
Projects are developed collectively. The artist’s intentions set the direction, while the process evolves through close conversation and practical work in the studio. A painted gesture may become a carved block; a photograph may require several plates and successive layers of ink; a change of paper can alter the entire character of an image.
Warner Road is an active artist workshop. Printers and artists work beside one another, using the scale and knowledge of the studio to find the form each project requires.
Peter Bennett is Director and Master Printer at Warner Road Studios.
He began working at Thumbprint Editions in 2009, training as a fine-art printer under its founder and master printer, Pete Kosowicz. During this period, he worked on projects for artists including Anish Kapoor, Ian Davenport, Damien Hirst, Gillian Ayres, Tracey Emin and many more.
Each project demanded a different kind of attention. There were precisely controlled multicolour polymer-gravure blends for Anish Kapoor; monumental woodcuts for Damien Hirst; and sustained studio collaborations with Gillian Ayres, translating painted maquettes into expressive woodcuts on bespoke Japanese papers.
He established Atelier JI in 2013 and continues to direct the independent studio alongside his role at Warner Road. Specialising in large-format screenprint while also working across intaglio, relief and hybrid processes, Atelier JI has developed a distinct practice producing ambitious original editions with artists, galleries and publishers.
His return to Warner Road brings his career back to the workshop in which he first developed as a printer. It also brings the experience gained from directing two major print studios and building an independent workshop of his own.
For Bennett, technique follows intention. The work begins with the artist’s idea and develops through conversation, testing and the physical behaviour of ink, paper and pressure.
