About Sally
My prints start with simple lines and sketches taken directly from the landscape; the final picture is a distilled image in its simplest and purest form. Many of my prints take inspiration from traditional Japanese images, which I rework from my western perspective.
I use mainly Perspex for plates and the images are then scratched, burnt or etched onto this, using many different tools and etching mediums to produce an innovative printing style. This includes monoprint and drypoint along with original and experimental techniques.
The image is then printed by the intaglio method (a form of printmaking were the image is produced by incising into the printing plate) to create the final picture. This means the process and technique required to create each piece is individual and unique. I then print these on Somerset printmaking paper; the weight and texture of the paper is perfect for the techniques I use and enhance the final imagines.
I was born in Birmingham and did my art training there, specialising in Graphic Art, Calligraphy and gaining City & Guilds in Printmaking 1981. I moved to the Devon in 1985. I am a voluntary director of the Double Elephant Print Workshop and I teach workshops regularly there and in the community. My recent work is exhibited in a number of Galleries in the South West.
I use mainly Perspex for plates and the images are then scratched, burnt or etched onto this, using many different tools and etching mediums to produce an innovative printing style. This includes monoprint and drypoint along with original and experimental techniques.
The image is then printed by the intaglio method (a form of printmaking were the image is produced by incising into the printing plate) to create the final picture. This means the process and technique required to create each piece is individual and unique. I then print these on Somerset printmaking paper; the weight and texture of the paper is perfect for the techniques I use and enhance the final imagines.
I was born in Birmingham and did my art training there, specialising in Graphic Art, Calligraphy and gaining City & Guilds in Printmaking 1981. I moved to the Devon in 1985. I am a voluntary director of the Double Elephant Print Workshop and I teach workshops regularly there and in the community. My recent work is exhibited in a number of Galleries in the South West.