Hello and welcome to my website, from printmaker Catherine Mynott

I am drawn to printmaking because I am a perfectionist and the process suits me perfectly. In printmaking you can draw, re-draw, paint over, cut-out and collage the images for your print. Freely chasing your idea. When you print you can mix and re-mix the colours, test and re-test them, and put them together until your work settles. Until it becomes quiet, still and finished (at least for a short time).

This can be a long process and for me it starts with drawing at home. At the kitchen table where I can spread out, it’s warm and there’s plenty of tea. Next, I print my work by hand at Edinburgh Printmakers Studio. Mostly working in screenprint or relief.

Botanical forms, flowers and leaves are what grab my interest. I find them beautiful. I work from life and enjoy having a good excuse to always have a gathered bouquet at home. I like to look at how sunlight passes through the petals and leaves. llluminating the detail. Delicate lines and patterns that you might not have seen at first glance, but can see in my prints.