Steven Hutchins appears to have been a print dealer and self-taught printmaker active in London, England the early 1980s. Mention of his learning how to make woodcuts from a Frank Morley Fletcher instructional book is all we have as a clue to his talent, which is evident in the mere three prints that have been found. Save for a few of anecdotes online, nothing is found on his life, education, or career. Among these is a post from the Modern Printmakers blog, written by Haji Baba on September 2, 2011 (https://haji-b.blogspot.com/2011/09/steven-hutchins.html). They tell of meeting the print dealer and sometime-printmaker Steven Hutchins at the Portobello Road market in 1983:

"A friend had been on one of his search-and-spend visits to Portobello Road in London and popped in to see Steven Hutchins at his stall as part of the exercise. Now, Steven was a dealer in Japanese woodblock but occasionally sold European woodblock artists. (I bought my treasured Paul Leschhorn from him). But on this occasion he had a woodcut by an artist none of us had ever come across: it was Steven Hutchins himself. And he had done something remarkable.

"We knew about the handbook called Woodblock Printing that Frank Morley Fletcher had first published in 1916 but neither us suspected that anyone had used the book to teach themselves how to make woodcuts in the Japanese manner as late as the 1980s. But Steven Hutchins had. You can judge for yourself how successful you think he was but for me he did a good job even though when he asked me if I knew this artist when he showed me a woodcut one day, I failed to buy. (No reason why they should have been cheap but they weren't). Anyway, I wanted readers to see these prints just to show what people can achieve with application. You may also note that Steven worked strictly within the British topographical tradition in these two prints at least. Eggleston Abbey is in Co Durham, Lynton on the rocky coast of north Devon. Incidentally, I haven't seen him since the eighties. It was a great time of shared rediscovery but unfortunately the print dealers with flair like Steven Hutchins all moved on. Hail, and farewell."

If you have information on Steven Hutchins that you would like to contribute, please contact the gallery at artannex@aol.com or (707) 546-7352.