Kate Alger is an artist-printmaker and educator. Her work is entirely handmade and often combines delicate hand-drawn elements with a wide a range of analogue printmaking techniques and processes.

 

Kate’s automotive artwork quietly celebrates classic cars. Her hand-pulled silkscreen prints comprise many drawings, hand-cut paper stencils and different translucencies of ink. They are limited editions of just 10 original (handmade) prints. Her painterly monotypes are one-off hand-printed pieces, created by applying ink to a non-absorbent surface with rollers, brushes, rags, card and cotton buds, then when the image is ready, it is transferred onto cotton paper via an antique printing press. There is just one original monotype and a small edition of more affordable giclée prints based on the original.

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Kate’s automotive artwork has been exhibited several times at the Royal Automobile Club, the British Motor Museum, Silverstone, and has been featured in Octane and Vantage magazines. She exhibited at Shelsley Walsh’s Classic Nostalgia and Pistonheads’ Annual Service events for the first time in 2025 and hopes to return to both. She is represented online by Historic Car Art, and is delighted to have  been accepted into the Guild of Motoring Artists.

 

Alongside her pared back automotive silkscreen prints and painterly monotypes, Kate also creates sensitive animal portraits, timeless monochrome etchings of woodlands, intricate blind embossings, and atmospheric drypoints and collagraphs. Her drawing style ranges from loose, expressive sketches to highly-detailed drawings. Kate was a finalist in the Wildlife Artist of the Year in 2024 and 2025, has been short-listed for several printmaking prizes, and won the Pressing Matters prize in 2023.

 

Kate firmly believes in the importance of creating things with our hands; she is a freelance artist-educator at Watts Gallery, The Guildford Institute and the art lead for The Flying Child CIC. She designs and delivers creative workshops for all ages and abilities on a regular basis.

 

Kate welcomes commissions from corporates and individuals.