Caroline Houchell
Caroline Houchell is a mixed-media artist and printmaker working from her garden studio in North Norfolk. She works with gel plates, making monoprints and monotypes and generating collage papers that she then layers into her mixed-media pieces, building the work up from textures foraged from the landscape around her.
Caroline has been shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Award three times and in 2026 she was shortlisted for the Mannington Nature Award, one of the seven Holt Art Awards, and was selected to exhibit at the Inaugural Wymondham Print Festival at Becketts Chapel in Spring 2026.
She teaches beginners and advanced students Gel plate printing workshops at REEF Make & Do in Blakeney, Art groups and Norfolk Wildlife Trust at Cley.
Artist Statement
I am a mixed media artist and printmaker, working from my garden studio in North Norfolk. My work is centred on naturally found textures, to reflect the fleeting in between moments of seasonal change, and connect the audience to natural elements in an increasingly disconnected technological era.
I find peace in the mindful and sensory immersive aspects of my process, starting with foraging for plant materials also delving beneath the surface and unlocking the imperfect beauty of decaying and fallen foliage.
Once I have collected and collated a variety of textures, I use gelplates in my practice which I find an exciting, serendipitous and spontaneous printing method for monoprints and monotypes and creating collage papers to layer within my mixed media work.
Work
Photo: Caroline Houchell
Photo: Caroline Houchell
Photo: Caroline Houchell
Photo: Caroline Houchell
Photo: Caroline Houchell
Photo: Caroline Houchell