Description

The print

This print is one of a series of 100 monotypes made in the studio from Tide (Sketchbook) 2022. The sketchbook was painted on the beach on the west coast of Scotland. Working back in the studio in London, Michelle made the prints from looking at the sketchbook but also the memory of looking at the sea and the tide, to recreate that feeling of being in the moment on the beach.

Artist background

Michelle uses the printmaking process to make new discoveries, working instinctively with the medium as a way to explore image making. She studied painting at the Slade School of Art in the late 1980’s, later specialising in printmaking at Wimbledon School of Art. Michelle established HAUSPRINT in 2010. She has work in public and private collections in the UK including the Ashmolean, Oxford and Chelsea and Westminster hospital, London.

Michelle is an experienced artist educator. She is also currently Head of Printmaking and Bookbinding at Morley College, London.