Amelia Bown

Amelia Bown, a Northamptonshire based printmaker and illustrator, produces intricate original screen prints and illustrations with the aim to promote the beauty of the natural world.

Amelia studied MA in Visual Communication (Illustration) at the University of Derby in 2012, and after a break following graduation, returned to the art world in 2020. Her love of printmaking began at university where she learnt collagraph, dry point etching and, her favourite, screen printing. Today, she designs from her home studio and then heads to Leicester Print Workshop, where she practices and develops her craft and learns the CMYK process. Applying the CMYK process to her illustrations, Amelia found they took on a new life, which pushed her to take the first steps to become a professional artist.

With a deep fascination with wildlife, Amelia creates screen prints with the aim to highlight the beauty and wonder of the natural world. This fascination started from a young age; growing up in Leicestershire’s rural countryside, surrounded by wildlife, her dream was to be like David Attenborough, sharing and promoting the wonder of the natural world. Amelia draws inspiration for her subject matter through observation and research. Her projects come from an exploration of species types or a particular habitat. It is usually the most interesting facts from her research that lead to the chosen subject matter and focus for each screen print.

Pushing the constrictions of the flatness of screen printing, Amelia strives to find new ways to bring her screen prints to life through the addition of textures and interesting effects that compliment her subject matter. This could be the use of thinned metallic inks to represent the shimmer of water, or a blend of different blues and gold to make a resplendent sunset. She even goes as far as adding cut-out hand-printed butterflies, mixed with fluorescent inks, to a screen printed background in order to give a 3D effect of wings that react to the UV light, just as a butterfly would. The specific effect applied can come from a curiosity, and the challenge, to depict the features of the wildlife subject matter and translate those to the print.

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