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Helen Brasher

Originally a mixed media painter, my fascination with printmaking began
during a Foundation Course in Art & Design at Bournemouth & Poole College in l996, and continued at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth where
I achieved HNC and HND qualifications in Fine Art/Printmaking between 1998 and 2001. During this time I spent many happy hours experimenting
with deep etched metal, and constructing collagraph plates from card and found materials.

I became a member of Poole Printmakers in May 1999 and today
my interest lies in both the formation of the landscape and the ravaging effects of erosion upon it, as well as the impressions it leaves on buildings
and their composite materials. I am drawn to detailed fragments of the landscape, rusting metal, peeling paint, crumbling rock and weather-worn
wood; patterns created through the process of erosion caused by man
and the elements. The past pressing upon the present.

In my printmaking I combine traditional methods of etching alongside those
less conventional techniques in which the corrosive nature of etching itself often
causes process and subject matter to merge.