Art making has been a continuing theme all my life. After many years of loving the creativity of being an early years teacher I decided to do a Fine Art BA in my early fifties. This led to a focus on print making which I have been enjoying for the past 13 years. Producing prints allows me to work with all the themes that I love - pattern, shape, colour, line and texture. Pattern has always been a fascination and I trace this back to a family background in wallpaper and fabric design - the Silver Studio founded in the 1850s. I feel very privileged that my life in Thame is a joyful balance between my passion for making prints and my other pleasures of 8 (!) grandchildren, singing in a choral society, gardening and reading for my book club!

My show will be in the studio at the end of my garden and hopefully outdoors too! There will be framed and unframed prints to buy, as well as plenty of home made cards. My prints are either produced by hand one at a time on a traditional etching press in the studio, or by using the silk screen printing technique. Most of my prints use a combination of the techniques of collagraph, monoprint, drypoint and screenprint. Ideas for designs come from simply thinking about the interplay between pattern, shape and texture. But ideas often come during the actual printing process itself. And of course colour is an abiding passion!