Caroline Collingridge

I keep coming back to nature.  Whether the medium is printmaking or painting, my subjects come from the natural world. Whether it is a tree, lichen, spirit or earth, I seem to have a need to be out there and to be part of it. I often take photographs and then use these when I’m making the artwork.  I’m fascinated by the form of whatever I’m looking at and then capture perhaps the essence of it.  None of the finished works is an exact copy but an impression, feeling or emotion that I have while making my artwork.

 I am aware that ash trees are dying from Ash Dieback disease so I spent a lot of time with them in my locality. I was fascinated by the shape of them and particularly the bark as these wonderful trees age. When young it is fairly smooth and a light grey in colour.

Linoprint on Paper

20x28cm

Framed under glass

Edition of 2