Dorothea Wight (born in Devon England, 1944, died 2013, Muswell Hill, London) was a British printmaker and artist.
Wight is best known for founding the Studio Prints on Queen's Crescent, where editions of artists’ prints were created, working with some of the most important contemporary British artists, including Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Ken Kiff, R. B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Celia Paul, Paula Rego, William Turnbull, Kim Lim and more than 100 other artists.
[2] The two would lead Studio Prints in introducing a number of techniques to British printmaking,[3][4] and the studio was considered "at the forefront of British Printmaking for 40 years".
[5] Wight also learned piano while a child, later in life relearning the skill for public performance.
[7] Wight died of a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which she was diagnosed with in 2000, with her health deteriorating over the next 13 years.