by Sophie Elm.
Squirrels + Pigeons is a 1 colour risograph printed in matt gold ink.
"The image is inspired by the apple trees at the bottom of my garden, which are home to many little birds. Over the spring in particular I've noticed the pigeons often sitting in it and disturbing the blossom, as well as the squirrels chasing one another and pinching nuts from the bird feeder. The image was created as a paper cut."
Risograph printing is a mechanised printing process, with results much like screen printing. 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.
Size: 25 x 25 cm.
Open edition, titled and 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.