by Sophie Elm.
Cornish Treasures is a two colour risograph print.
"The Cornish Treasures riso print has been inspired by the lovely natural treasures I found whilst on my holiday in Cornwall, from roadside farm stall flowers to beach combing finds. It started out life as a paper cut design, which I added an additional colour to, to create this fun vibrant print."
Risograph printing is a mechanised printing process, with results much like screen printing. A riso machine prints one colour at a time, building up layers of vibrant semi-transparent inks, using stencils, much like a screen print. Due to the mechanised process, registration of layers and colour density may vary from print to print, making each unique.
Printed in Manchester, UK, onto 100% recycled 300gsm card, using soya based inks.
Image size: 19 x 19 cm.
Paper size: 21 x 21 cm.
Frame size: 23 x 23 cm (framed in a white wood frame).
Open edition, signed.
Sophie Elm is a printmaker, designer and illustrator, creating botanical and horticulturally inspired linocut prints, block printed textiles, and ephemera. Her work is driven by seasonal changes in the garden and countryside around her. Through history we find humans celebrating nature and the changing of the seasons in every different culture. Sophie feels this is important to continue to do today and her work is her personal method of doing this. She uses vibrant colours, pattern and often combines typography too; an influence from her illustrative background. Although her work is predominately hand burnished linocuts, she likes to experiment with other forms of printmaking too such as risography, as well as paper cutting and drawing… sometimes she likes to combine them all together! Sophie studied Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art and now works from her home studio in the Stroud Valleys, Gloucestershire.