About
Hello and welcome!
I am Rachel Holborow, a York based artist and printmaker.
I make original art prints using mostly lino relief printing. I have a BA in Fine Art, have over a decade's experience in teaching, and feel that creativity is a useful process on a path of empowerment and becoming. I make contemporary nature inspired linoprints.
Printmaking provides me with many opportunities: the possibility for making multiple - and therefore affordable - copies of my considered and joyful art; an adventure in both carved mark making and ink application; the fredom to play with possibilities of line and pattern making derived from drawing or, alternatively, a more painterly layering of colour and tone and opaque or transparent inks. I love the entire process - travelling from observation and information gathering via carving the lino to inking the block with a roller.
My art has two main paths - a joyful exploration of wild plants and creatures & inquisitively unpacking the experiences of a female human dwelling within a patriarchally constructed society. I often find these two themes overlap and converse with each other, especially in the realm of folklore, myth and folk verse, which I frequently find myself immersed. I like to use imagery to unpick, and hopefully unravel, how language is used as a means of control. Often this leads me to the surreal - an area where we can find our way to a truer existence.
It is important to me that my materials have a low impact on our environment and I use handmade sustainably grown or recycled papers, biodegradeable packaging and vegetable oil based printer's inks that clean up with soap and water.
I am Rachel Holborow, a York based artist and printmaker.
I make original art prints using mostly lino relief printing. I have a BA in Fine Art, have over a decade's experience in teaching, and feel that creativity is a useful process on a path of empowerment and becoming. I make contemporary nature inspired linoprints.
Printmaking provides me with many opportunities: the possibility for making multiple - and therefore affordable - copies of my considered and joyful art; an adventure in both carved mark making and ink application; the fredom to play with possibilities of line and pattern making derived from drawing or, alternatively, a more painterly layering of colour and tone and opaque or transparent inks. I love the entire process - travelling from observation and information gathering via carving the lino to inking the block with a roller.
My art has two main paths - a joyful exploration of wild plants and creatures & inquisitively unpacking the experiences of a female human dwelling within a patriarchally constructed society. I often find these two themes overlap and converse with each other, especially in the realm of folklore, myth and folk verse, which I frequently find myself immersed. I like to use imagery to unpick, and hopefully unravel, how language is used as a means of control. Often this leads me to the surreal - an area where we can find our way to a truer existence.
It is important to me that my materials have a low impact on our environment and I use handmade sustainably grown or recycled papers, biodegradeable packaging and vegetable oil based printer's inks that clean up with soap and water.
