Origins
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One day I walked past a sign saying Etching Saturday School and was intrigued. I'd heard of etching and thought it would be interesting to enrol for the course. I didn't have an art school qualification, having trained as a teacher, but was active in art in my spare time. The course, over a full day enabled me to leave with a finished print, working from scratch. After that I was hooked. I never looked back and have been printmaking ever since. I have been working in both relief printmaking and intaglio. After etching , I moved to relief printing, producing lino cuts , wood engraving, woodcuts and collagraph . In recent years I have gone on to transfer these designs to textiles, printing on cotton and then silk. I also had a series of items produced as well as a variety of cards printed .
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Original Prints |
Etchings ,lino cuts and wood engravings have been printed as limited editions. Silk scarves were a lockdown project when the studio was shut. I managed to print them individually at home on the kitchen table! They are hand printed with fabric inks which are colour fast and can be washed in warm water. However they were very time consuming and not viable in the long run, although we had all the time we needed in lockdown!Nowadays I have returned to conventional printing and don't print many scarves. I also printed on canvas tote bags with some of my lino cut blocks .
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Cards
A wide variety of cards have been printed both in small and large sizes. They are also in themed packs of five, with a heading card in a cellophane pack. Recently I've been looking at the idea of a cardboard presentation box rather than cellophane.