Jazmin Velasco


Jazmin was born in 1971 in Guadalajara, Mexico where she studied graphic design and illustration.

Years later she moved to Mexico City to study oil painting and printmaking, while working as a cartoonist for a national newspaper. Years and years later she moved to London where she continues to illustrate books for publishers in Mexico, USA and U.K.

In Autumn 2005 she joined Greenwich Printmakers Association and later became member of Southbank Printmakers too. Her prints have been selected twice for the National Print Exhibition (Originals) and also twice for the Summer Exhibition in the Royal Academy of Arts (2008 - 2009). Her prints are in galleries around the UK.

She is inspired by the work of Jose Guadalupe Posada, the father of Mexican printmaking, and by Leopoldo Mendez who founded the Taller de la Grafica Popular, the celebrated organization which produced the posters and pamphlets that brought the Mexican Revolution to its illiterate masses, and created some of the finest graphic art of the 20 th century.

But her real love and inspiration is and always will be Saul Steinberg.

Jazmin is also a practitioner and teacher of Taoist martial arts. In China, the arts and martial prowess have been linked since ancient times. The martial arts themselves are a kind of fine art for those who understand them.

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Exhibitions 2012:


Sept 10 - 16th, London Printmakers at the Bankside Gallery, Southbank, London.

Nov 1-4, Affordable Art Fair with Printmakers Ink, Hampstead Heath, London.

Jun 27th- 1st July, Henley Royal Regatta, at the Stewards’ Enclosure, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

Jun 23rd - 27th August, Summer exhibition, Cambridge Contemporary Art gallery, Cambridge.

May 8 - 18th, 74th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers at Marle Gallery, Axminster, Devon.

May 29th , Summer exhibition, Upstairs gallery, Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire.

April - June, Printmakers exhibition, The Art Shop, Abergavenny, South Wales.

March 9 -21st May, Print 10 X 10, Biscuit Factory, Newcastle

March 15th - 21st April, London Printmakers exhibition at the National Theatre, Southbank, London.

Feb 3rd, Widely Absurd, Hundred Years Gallery, London.

Jan 27th, 74th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers, Bankside gallery, London.

Jan 18th, London Art Fair at the Business Design Center with Panther & Hall gallery, Islington London.


Past exhibitions:

July 13 - 31st August 2011, Addenbrookes’s Hospital, Cambridge

July 1 - 28th August 2011, Mixed Show, Cambridge Contemporary Gallery

July 1st 2011 Solo Show, Rostra & Rooksmoor galleries, Bath

May 2011 London Printmakers, spring exhibition, OXO gallery, London

July 2011 Solo Show, Rostra & Rooksmoor, Bath

July 2011 summer show, Cambridge Contemporary

July 2011 Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge

Sept 2010   Open Studio Show, Tile Kiln Lane Studios, Highgate, London

June 2010   VAMOS! Biscuit Factory, Newcastle Upon Tyne

June 2010   summer show, The Moreton Gallery, Gloucestershire

May 2010    London Printmakers, OXO gallery, London

April 2010   Contemporary Printmakers 5, Rostra & Rooksmoor, Bath

March 2010   Three women show, Cambridge Contemporary Art

Feb 2010     20/21Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London

Feb 2010   Impressions, Panter & Hall, Mayfair, London

Dec 2009    Christmas Show, Cambridge Contemporary Art

Dec 2009  Christmas Show, Biscuit Factory, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Nov 2009    COMIC, Pyramid Gallery, York

Nov 2009   Solo Show Machete-Mifune, Macondo, London

Sept 2009    Open Studio Show, Tile Kiln Lane Studios, London

July 2009    Summer exhibition, Cambridge Contemporary Art, London

June2009    Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London

May 2009   30 years of Greenwich Printmakers, Oxo Tower

May-June    "Lasting Impressions" Greenwich Printmakers, National Theatre

Feb 2009    ORIGINALS, Mall Galleries, London

Dec 2009    Christmas Show, Biscuit Factory, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Oct 2008      Print Gocco Artists, Here Gallery, Bristol

Sept 2008     Open Studio Show, Tile Kiln Studios, London

Sept 2008     Three Person Show, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle upon Tyne

June 2008       Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London

Nov 2007      Day of the Dead, Solo Show, Macondo Café-Gallery, London

Sept 2007      Open House, Tile Kiln Studios, London

July 2007       Salon 07, Seven Seven Contemporary, London

Feb 2007       Featured Artist, Greenwich Printmakers Gallery

Sep 2006       Drawing with a Knife, Solo Show, Macondo Café-Gallery, London

Aug 2006      Summer Show, London Print Studio

Aug 2006       Art 15, Cupola Contemporary, Sheffield

Feb 2006       ORIGINALS, Mall Galleries,London

Nov 2005        Group show, Dulwich College, London

Sept 2004        Love is in the Air, Nordstrom Store, NY

May 2004        Group Show, Abney Public Hall, London