Sally-Ann Davies

The natural environment around me fuels my passion to be creative. I enjoy connecting to the location of the area I live or visit.

My passion for printmaking is inspired by my love of woodcut printing. This style of printmaking fascinates me and contributes to the uniqueness of each hand pulled print. Woodcuts can be bold or subtle, crude or refined. The process of cutting the blocks has never ceased to delight me.

Structure, pattern, line and colour are the visual elements of my hand-pulled prints. I combine monoprinting and collagraph processes with the technique of woodcut printing to add texture and colour to my prints. Using the process of monoprinting provides each print with a unique impression, no two prints are identical.

My fascination with printmaking is influenced by the fusion of techniques along with the unpredictability of hand-pulled prints. The intuitive creative process is guided by inks, matrices, and paper as the composition develops a strong bold image. This result is achieved by using multiple layers of inks and plates, creating original one of a kind hand-pulled prints.