05/06/2024
Rachel Moore - iPrintedThat
What services or products do you offer?
Printmaking workshops - screen printing, linocut, monotypes, cyanotypes.
What motivated you to start your business and how did you get the idea or concept?
I trained to be an accountant - by accident, really - I was months away from getting letters after my name when I woke up and realised; I can’t do this for the rest of my life.
Thankfully I had a really cool boss who suggested I take another role in the practice, go part time and find out what I really wanted to do with my life.
In truth, it had always been art, or at least something in that sector, so I took some courses at my local adult education college and fell in love with screen printing. I’d also had in the back of my mind that I’d like to be a teacher and immediately saw how screen printing would appeal to children - the excitement of pulling a print and lifting the screen for a big reveal. After running a few t-shirt printing workshops during the summer holidays for children of friends and family they suggested I do it as a business. It wasn’t long before mums and dads were asking to have a go themselves and the idea for iPrintedThat was born.
What do you enjoy most about what you do?
It doesn’t matter how many prints you do, the reveal NEVER gets boring. It might not always go right but it’s never boring.
What's your favourite piece of advice?
It’s not really advice, more of an observation about being self employed. The same boss mentioned above waved me off with these words; “The highs are high and the lows are low.” And it’s so true but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Rachel, together with Vanessa run the amazing unique art gallery in a phone box on Rochester High Street Medway Art Box where I displayed my Love Local Medway exhibition :)
Visit Rachel at I printed that to see her lovely artwork and the workshops that she runs!