Working on a new description of my work.

 

Anita Gwynn

Monotypes/collage/collographs 

My artistic practice focuses on drawing and printmaking.  I build up the print in layers, sometimes using collagraphs and stencils.

Our lives depend on the gifts that the earth gives us. I particularly like the plants that spring up, tenaciously, between the cracks.  Each flower has a use and a story. They are food to us, the bees, butterflies and insects, or have healing properties that have been used for centuries.  Without them we would not survive. Leave the ‘weeds’ alone!

 I love this quote from Dara McAnulty (Author of “A Young Naturalist” and particularly astute 17-year-old): “I don’t know what the future will be, but I absolutely know that joy and the things that give us joy in this world, especially the natural world, are essential for everything”.

 Having recently located to Bradford from an increasingly urbanised Lewisham (tower blocks appear on a monthly basis), I am constantly filled with joy when I look out of the window and see hills and trees.