My four dry point prints represent the idea of growing up and finding a sense of place in the world where I feel calm and secure. I wanted to portray the simplistic serenity of nature by working from photographs taken when I was a young child. I used black ink because I feel like it captures the moment better and takes away the distraction that colour can place on a piece. I wanted to create an emotive collection of prints that immersed the viewer and allowed them to focus on textural and tonal details as well as the compositional elements. The process of creating these prints involved using a needle-like etching tool to scratch into an acetate matrix. These were then inked up using intaglio ink and printed onto damp cartridge paper. 

This lino cut depicts the front doorsteps to my home. In this lino cut, I was aiming to communicate the comforting sense of familiarity and safety as you reach the front doorsteps of your home. I achieved this by tracing out an image of my doorsteps to my home with a sharp carving tool carving into a lino block. I then inked up the lino block and put it through the printing press. I decided to go with dark black ink to make the piece more defined. For me, my home is a place of happiness, contentment, warmth, love, and security and I think that’s how everyone should feel when entering their homes.

The aim of this artwork was to represent a sense of comfort, whether it is a place you sit to think, draw or do anything else. The main idea was to represent a place where you feel comfort. For this chine colle print the materials used were a block of lino, carving tools, tracing paper, rice glue and ink. The techniques used in lino printing are carving out the parts of lino you don’t want using different sized carving tools. To make a chine colle print you use glue to attach the paper and print the inked block at the same time.  

In this artwork, I was aiming to convey the concept of ‘Home’ and what that means specifically to me. To me, ‘home’ is represented by the artworks my grandpa made, which are hung all around my house, and my grandma’s house. They are something that the two places I’ve spent my life growing up have in common. I used a Lino cut, then with a Dry point etching printed on top. The lino used a mix of blue, green and black inks trying to replicate the original colour, and black was used in the dry point to create a sort of ghostly, faded feel to the colours.