Diana Ashdown Dip.A.D.

Artist's Statement

I work in a variety of media and print principally lino, collograph, monoprint, monotype, acrylic, mixed media and watercolour. Subject matter reflects my interest in nature, landscape, garden and architectural settings.

Colour, texture, pattern and line are all significant elements in my work and together they combine to produce pieces that are stunning and uplifting in their impact.

I have devised an unusual intaglio method for printing fine lines and textures in vinyl. People are amazed when they realize my prints are not etchings, which is what they look like at first glance.

My larger more complex pieces take weeks to cut and about an hour to complete the inking process, plates have to be re-inked after each time they are printed as all the colour gets picked up by the paper, at the end of a printing day I may consider none of the prints good enough to exhibit.

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