cosy handmade prints from the Waikato
Hand-pulled linocut on cream stock, 210 × 297 mm. Native kōwhai blossoms in a single continuous line.
$48A lamp-lit armchair, a sleeping cat, a stack of books. Two-colour risograph on 140 gsm recycled paper.
$42Kākahi Falls hut in the Kaimai Range. Monotype print, charcoal ink on warm white, 297 × 420 mm.
$65Woodcut on Japanese kozo paper. Wet leaves, dark soil, a single hydrangea. Edition of 30.
$55Two mismatched cups on a checked cloth. Screenprint in three layers — terracotta, moss, ink.
$38Soft-ground etching with aquatint. The wide sky over the Coromandel, fading to dusk. 150 × 300 mm.
$72A series of five mini-prints (100 × 100 mm each) — neighbourhood cats caught napping in sunbeams.
$28foolpruuf is the print practice of a small studio in Matamata, a rural town in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. We make things slowly — pulling ink by hand, setting type, carving blocks, mixing colours until they feel right. Every print is a record of a quiet afternoon in the studio.
The work draws from the landscape around us: the Kaimai ranges, the dairy farms, the gardens that run wild at the edges of town. But also from the indoors — the warmth of a kitchen at dusk, a shelf of well-loved books, the particular light of a winter afternoon through an old window.
We sell at the Matamata Sunday Market (first Sunday of the month, Broadway carpark) and through this site. Commissions open — get in touch if you'd like a print of a place or a room that matters to you.
Working on a series of large-format woodcuts for a group show at the Waikato Museum in October — the brief is 'domestic interiors, empty of people.' Also experimenting with indigo dye on abaca paper for a small run of botanical prints. The studio is open by appointment if you'd like to visit and see the work in person.
14 Tui Street, Matamata 3400
Entrance around the side, past the hydrangea bush
We print on 100–200 gsm acid-free papers — mostly Stonehenge warm white and Awagami kozo. Inks are oil-based and solvent-free. Where possible we use recycled or FSC-certified stock.
Every print starts as a drawing, then moves to plate or block. We carve, proof, adjust, proof again. A single colour layer can take a full day to register correctly. We don't rush.
Most runs are limited to 30–50 prints. Each is numbered, titled, and signed. When an edition sells out we don't reprint — every piece is a moment in time.
Prints are packed flat in archival sleeves with backing board. NZ-wide shipping is $8; international from $18. Free pickup in Matamata — just select local pickup at checkout.
Want a print, a commission, or just to say hello? Drop us a line.