Susan Yeates is a printmaker, tutor, published author and TEDx speaker. She has written and self-published four books including Learning Linocut (2011), an Amazon no. 1 best-selling printmaking book providing a comprehensive introduction to relief printing and Learn to Earn from Printmaking - An essential guide to creating and marketing a printmaking business (2016). Susan's first title for Search Press, Beginner's Guide to Linocut, was published in 2018.
Susan obtained a printmaking degree from Loughborough University and has been teaching courses and workshops since 2003. Susan has also had experience running numerous other businesses in different industries including a digital marketing business and training business. She also co-runs a pottery café in Woking, Surrey. Susan’s TEDx talk, Create your mandala universe – collaborate for a beautiful life, was broadcast in 2020.
Susan runs an annual thirty-day sketching challenge every January through her website and YouTube channel, Magenta Sky, and on Instagram (@learninglinocut) and Facebook, encouraging people to develop a daily sketching habit. Susan lives and works in Woking in Surrey, UK, and continues to teach printmaking.
