Secret Garden Linocut Art Print

'Secret Garden' lino cut art print by Melanie Wickham.
Paper size 31cm x 23cm approx.
Image size 18cm x 14cm.
Printed on 160gsm Zerkell paper.
Signed, titled and numbered in a limited edition of 100.
Supplied unframed.

A secret garden featuring birds shrubs, flowers and trees in pots. Hand carved in lino by Melanie and printed by Graham at Incline Press onto Zerkell paper with Hawthorn Intense Black ink in a limited edition of 100.

About the artist

Contemporary artist, Melanie Wickham is a lino printer based in Bristol. She trained as an Illustrator, graduating in 1997 and has been carving out lino hares, cats, spiders, plants and otters ever since.

Her printmaking is based on drawings she makes – she sketches everywhere she goes and captures ideas and shapes which evolve into her affordable art lino prints. Her subject matter is largely nature based, plants and animals but also people and places feature.

She transfers her drawings onto the lino block and then carves the design, before inking up and hand burnishing the back of the paper to create a print. She doesn't use a press at all.  She often uses Somerset Satin paper and works in limited editions, with each lino print being titled, numbered and signed on the front.

Melanie enjoys the challenge of translating a drawing into lino and also the physical process of hand burnishing. She is constantly challenging herself with the medium, in terms of both intricate lino blocks to cut and also the size of lino block to hand burnish.