Oxford born, Hetty Haxworth studied at the Glasgow School of Art and has been making prints for the past 30 years, exhibiting all over the UK and abroad. Hetty uses a broad range of printmaking techniques including monoprint, screenprint, etching and woodcut. Her work has been shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottish Society of Artists and selected touring shows to Ohio, Australia, LA, Denmark and Brussels. She now lives and works from a studio in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
"I live in rural Aberdeenshire where the weather has a huge visual impact on the countryside. Some days the fields and stretches of water are lit up by shafts of bright light and the tones of colours within the landscape are illuminated, changing it completely. I am interested in capturing these illuminated moments in time, in the light glistening
on rock formations, in the changing hues of the fields with the seasons, and in the reflections and the movement of light across water and land."
Hetty's process begins by making preliminary sketches and collages, moving onto maquettes and small laser-cut images evoking the colours and shapes that I’ve seen and, finally, turning the abstracted image into a print or painted relief on wood. She particularly likes the immediacy of monoprint, the painterly aspect, using a roller rather than a brush and the speed at which you have to work with ink on wood, and the texture of woodgrain flowing through the piece.