Welcome to my folksy shop ...
All of my artwork is hand-made and hand-printed / coloured onto artists quality printmaking paper
Orders will be posted by 2nd class Royal Mail within 3 days of order, and most likely the next day
Payment can be made through PayPal without having an account - just use a credit / debit card as a 'guest'.

Original woodcuts & linocuts, coloured with artists watercolours

Hello! I'm Valerie, an artist printmaker based in the watery Fens, where the pace of life is slow and measured.

I went back into education as a mature student ... I enjoyed everything on a 2 year National Diploma course in Fine Art, but found that I loved printmaking the best and embarked on a Fine Art Printmaking degree at the Cambridge School of Art, graduating in 2005

My mother showed me how to do textile crafts - sewing, knitting, dressmaking - I relished the process of creating something from start to finish, and it's the same with printmaking... my woodcuts and other prints are entirely handmade by me.

My inspiration comes from long walks in the countryside or along coastal paths, and being a gardener for wildlife, an allotment gardener and an environmentalist - I look at insects, birds and plants during the changing seasons, and observe the interconnectedness of all things in the natural world ... the ecosystem.

I draw a design, reverse it onto wood or lino, cut it with specialist tools, then ink and print using a hand-operated press onto beautiful, heavy, quality printmaking paper, made of 50-100% cotton rag, hand-torn to give several deckle edges.
I then hand-colour some of my prints - it takes time to decide on colours, and the strength or weakness, then I carefully complete them - sometimes I feel a bit like a miniaturist.

The whole process takes a lot of time and thought, it can't be rushed ..

I especially love to see butterflies and moths when I'm out and I use butterfly-conservation.org to identify unusual ones so will donate 20% of the item price (of prints in the pollinators collection and hand-printed cards collection) to this worthwhile charity ... they are currently raising funds to create new urban wild spaces to help declining butterfly and moth populations.

Thank you for reading ... please look at any of my shop collections that appeal to you.

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