by Kate Miller | Jun 11, 2024 | prints, work
Last year, we were all shocked and appalled at the felling of the tree at Sycamore Gap. The incident led me to think a lot about the power of nature to renew – already, a seedling grown from the tree has been replanted. The roots continue to feed the stump,...
by Kate Miller | Oct 2, 2023 | prints, work
It’s not very often that an opportunity comes along to create something unique and personal in printmaking. Relief prints, by their nature, can be printed repeatedly from a single block, and are therefore usually made in editions of (nearly) identical prints, to be...
by Kate Miller | Sep 28, 2023 | prints, work
Howay the Lads is a print unlike any other I’ve made. It’s important to me that, far from being an accurate representation of a place or an event, it represents a feeling, a noise, a surging of excitement, a passion. It depicts that moment before the team runs on to...
by Kate Miller | Jul 12, 2023 | prints, work
On a windy day in February 2023, I set out armed with a flask of soup, some fingerless gloves and my sketchbook, to the village of Craster on the Northumberland coast. From there it was a short walk along the grassy coastline to Dunstanburgh castle. The castle is a...
by Kate Miller | Apr 19, 2023 | inspiration, workshops
Although I’m primarily a printmaker, I’ve always loved collage, and often incorporate collage elements into my prints. Since last summer, I’ve been making seascape collages from torn strips of coloured paper. I’ve been selling them in little wooden frames at markets...