Muted ghost background - pale green and yellow/pink. Hydrangea leaves in purple, red, green and blue
Eryngium plant used for printing: deep blue with a varied pink background
Multi coloured hydrangea petals - yellows, purples with ghost print visible
Plants and a fake leaf: pink, blue, ochre and orangey brown
Hydrangea ghostly green and deep blue on a pale green ghostly background
Hydrangea ghostly green and deep blue on a pale green ghostly background
Hydrangea petals in deep blue printed onto a deep orangey yellow back ground
Plants used for printing as monograph. Purples, yellows and ghost print
Make up used as a printing medium: peaches, white and deep pinky beige
Make up used as a printing medium: deep pink and pale pink smudges
Make up used as a print-making medium: peaches, pinks and some white
Make up as a printing medium - pinks and peaches. Text overlaid is a quote from a friend's diary, with a response in latin.
Make up as a printing medium - pinks and peaches. Text overlaid is a quote from a friend's diary, with a response in latin.

Monoprint (original, 2023). Make up as a printmaking medium and quotes from a friend’s diary, with a response in latin.

Techniques

My preferred methods currently are monoprinting and lino.  Lino designs can be fabulous: they are concrete and reproducible. 

However monoprinting is my preferred process: I love the uncertainty of it, the elements of chance, and the originality of every print I make.  For me there’s never a pre-conceived outcome – it’s wonderful to ‘play’, the process is experimental and therefore exciting (sometimes exasperating!)  I tend to use natural materials to make my print work – usually collected from my own garden or my surrounding area – Dartmoor.  I find it exciting to be not quite in control of the process.

Hydrangea petals in prussian blue on a yellow ochre/green background with a ghost print showing through behind in pale greens

Monoprint of hydrangea leaves (2022).