Helen Maxfield
Helen Maxfield is a printmaker working in linocut from her home studio near Needham Market, Suffolk. She graduated from Lancaster University with a BA in Art: Practice and Theory in 2001 and took an MBA in Cultural Management at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, the following year, moving to Suffolk after graduating. She went on to a PGCE in Secondary Art in 2005, and has taken printmaking courses at Suffolk College and at Gainsborough's House Print Workshop in Sudbury.
She works across the range of lino techniques, from a single block through the reduction method, in which one piece of lino is carved and printed in several passes with no way back, to multi-block and jigsaw methods, chine colle and the blended or rainbow roll. She exhibits locally, shows and sells at fairs, and teaches lino printing workshops.
She is a member of 12PM Twelve Printmakers and Suffolk Craft Society.
Artist Statement
Mostly, my inspiration comes from sketching trips in the Suffolk countryside and along the coastline...but I also take my sketchbooks on holidays with me and can find inspiration in unexpected places! My designs start with observational sketchbook studies and evolve through the printmaking process back in the studio. My aim is to achieve images that celebrate both the beauty of the place and the natural qualities of linocut.
I enjoy looking for textures in the landscape and devising ways to render them through linocut.
Work
Press
- 12PM Twelve Printmakers - Mill Tye Gallery