Flora McLachlan

I love to imagine being in miniature forests of moss and horned lichen, losing myself in the patterns of leaf-litter and tree seeds. In storytelling tradition, a forest quest moves through thorns and darkness towards order and light. In my etchings, I explore the teeming, tessellating details of nature and search the immanent places of the land for a fleeting glimpse of the white hart.

I draw webs of lines into hard ground and add dark washes and weathers of spit bite aquatint, or bite heavy soft ground textures into the plate and scrape and burnish the moonshine back in.

Debby Akam

Debby works with woodcut prints, screen prints and video to engage with particular places and spaces, often using the device of a journey or passage through a landscape.

“I use saturated colour, and repeating motifs to suggest a mixture of things observed, imagined, and remembered in layered images that invite multiple readings, and allow an element of chance into the making process. Silkscreen is sometimes combined with the gestural marks of woodcut blocks to juxtapose the immediate experience of making the print with an event captured in a photograph.”