Alyson Stoneman (b.1948)

Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Alyson Stoneman studied at Auckland University before moving to London to study at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art. From 1971 she developed a distinctive technique of photo-etching, making printing plates from her own photographs and then working into them by hand.

With her husband, the master printer Hugh Stoneman, she ran Islington Studios and the Islington Graphics Gallery, and she later worked as Master Printer at the New York Printmaking Workshop and as a visiting professor at the University of California, Davis. Now known as Alyson Hunter, she has work in the Museum of London, the Government Art Collection and the National Portrait Gallery.