Mary Collett

Even as a small child I was always a fiddler and I love nothing better than the experimentation that comes with printmaking – there’s always some bit of old book or map or music that I feel I can add to my prints to make each one unique. My subjects are pretty much always animals or birds and I try to give each one their own character by adding a slight smile, a bemused look or pleading eyes. I work by cutting or ‘etching’ lino and then printing the image on damp paper through an etching press, which gives the prints an embossed quality.