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, prints, work
I’ve always loved snowdrops – probably because they’re the first flowers to appear in the new year, reminding me that spring is on the way. A few years ago, we dug up the horrible tarmac outside our house and planted a proper front garden, with a wooden garden gate...
by Kate Miller | Apr 19, 2023 | inspiration, work
For years I’ve been dreaming of owning a proper drying rack. By this I mean one of those vintage wooden racks, beautifully carved, with glass marbles nestled in the holes to hold the paper in place. Up until now, I’ve dried my prints flat – laid out along the table...
by Kate Miller | Apr 19, 2023 | inspiration, prints, work
In the autumn of 2022, I spent a couple of days in a Lakeland pub with my husband, taking blustery walks during the day with enormous doorstep cheese and pickle sandwiches, and supping beer from the in-house brewery in the cosy bar in the evenings. Our room was out...
