About Heather Wilson.

I am an artist printmaker, wood engraver, and sketchbook maker. In the early 1990's I printed 100s of Thomas Bewick engraved wood blocks, for an archive in Newcastle Upon Tyne. To see more about Thomas Bewick, there is a lot of info online.

I studied my fine art degree, specialising in the technique of printmaking, graduating in 1984, in NE England. I then completed a masters in illustration at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, graduating in 2001.

I wholly support independence for Scotland, having lived in the country since 1990. Some of my work is political and I make no apologies for that.

My work is based on some personal experience, and my interest in anything environment related. Having worked in the medium of wood engraving for many years, I am now experimenting with monoprint and woodcut, and making work about the most often destructive extraction industries, especially gold mining, but not solely.

My interest is in making work based on the changing landscape, from natural causes as well as the human impact on our environment. In making my prints, it is not a matter of creating observational landscape, it is an emotional relationship, as well as an attempt to look into what is happening, in an objective way. While making a comment on the impact of humans on the planet, I am also attempting to show the beauty of nature, a before, and after perhaps. The contrary nature of all things, in life and in the natural world, has often been a feature in my work, and I use titles to enhance that aspect of my creative practice. Titles, are an important part of my art, they hopefully add to the mystery, and clarify what sometimes can seem quite ambiguous. Sometimes nature is rendered ghostly, what has been lost, of left behind, what is no longer reality, and what we have destroyed, and what is being destroyed. I have an interest in geology, archeaology and all things historical, in particular artefacts that can tell us about how humans lived and developed in the past.

In making my prints, I also attempt to show a life affirming environment, one that will regenerate, if only we will allow it.

Thank you very much for visiting my website, feel free to contact me via the contact form for any questions about my artworks.

To view the prints, click on the main image to view the gallery and zoom in for more detail.