Mandi Street is a landscape artist and printmaker working from her studio at home in Pinhoe, Exeter. Her work most often represents local landscapes, from the South West Coast Path and elsewhere. She captures the energy of a place and time, producing work inspired by the spirit of places she has visited on her walks, with a focus on light, texture and colour. Mandi was trained as a painter and has a BA in Fine Art. She spent 30 years teaching art, as well as working as headteacher of a local school. She now has time to focus on her own work, regularly featuring in local galleries, exhibitions and Devon Open Studios. Mandi most frequently works on paper and canvas, using oil pastel and oil paint, watercolour, and relief printmaking. ‘While I trained as a painter, and work in a range of 2D media, linoprinting has increasingly become a preferred medium. For me, mark-making and texture in relief printing does the work of the paintbrush, giving work its own life, direction and force. I cut the lino directly from source images. My approach to printmaking is quite loose and I enjoy going where the materials take me. As I favour a reduction printing method , where only one piece of lino is used, mistakes cannot be undone and prints are available in very ‘limited’ editions, so they have a certain rarity.’