Jo Boddy studied a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at West Dean College of Art and Conservation between 2018-2021. It was here that she discovered printmaking, and has been hooked ever since. Today, her work draws inspiration from the natural world, particularly the surrounds of her home on the Surrey/Berkshire border. Jo spends a lot of her time walking in the Swinley Forest which she depicts in many of her reduction linocut prints.
She works mainly from sketches made on location, rather than photographs, and her sketchbooks are filled with experiments in mark making. Jo maintains an experimental approach to lino printing, rarely tracing designs, and instead using home made dip nibs, dry brushing, and free cutting to make marks on the lino.
In a recent collection of collographs Jo reflects her lifelong connection to Norfolk, which she visits several times a year. In the series she draws inspiration from the county’s beaches with each piece inked uniquely.
Currently, Jo is experimenting with the combination of linocut and collagraph, firstly in a series of mini prints around the theme of lines, one of which won the Lucie Green Printmakers Prize at the Southbank Printmakers mini print competition in December 2021. This then led to a collagraph plate made using materials foraged from the forest floor and overlaid with a linocut of forest tree silhouettes.
www.joboddy.co.uk
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