The artwork I am showing in my house this year was made by my mother who had drawn since childhood. Her art school training was based on drawing, but in midlife she turned from drawing the scene of St.Ebbes destruction in Oxford to collecting the bits of wood, cloth and metal that she found there. These then became her first constructions, followed by weather-worn and torn posters which she then embellished with pastels. At a Ruskin Printmaking Workshop in 1974 she found other ways of using these found objects, learning through etching and lithography to get direct imprints of them and finding the less well known technique of Collagraphy. She showed her work at Oxford County Museum in an exhibition about the history of St.Ebbes in 1974, and then with the Oxford Printmakers’ Co-operative at Christ Church Gallery in 1999 and The North Wall in 2009.