Blog

Known primarily as a printmaker, London based artist Vicky Oldfield finds beauty in the natural and everyday world. From the domestic to woodland flora and garden flowers, and weeds by the roadside to bottles on a clustered windowsill - all are grist to the mill for her work. Especially known for her botanical subjects she has a fascination with the structure and design found in flowers and plants, often redrawing the same plant many times over to explore the subtle variations in its form.  

'The prints are taken from plates which have been collaged with a variety of materials, card, fabric, paper, string, sand and anything else that may come to hand; it’s recycling at it’s most creative!  The plates are then sealed and then inked up and printed in intaglio or relief on damp paper using an etching press.  The embossed textural quality of the print is unique to this method.

Thanks to the process itself, she is able to make small editions of the image, the editions are variable due to the process and her desire to experiment, which means each print is unique.'

Vicky Oldfield RBA will be demonstrating her printmaking techniques in the gallery on Thursday 6 March, from 11am to 4pm. Free with gallery admission, no booking required.

For further details and sales enquiries, click here.