Artist statement
I work from my studio in rural Aberdeenshire, where the ever-changing colours and shapes of the landscape around me are an important source of inspiration. I work in screen print, monoprint and painted relief and I will have prints and paintings on show. Jeweller Magsdesignermaker will join me and I will give daily printmaking demos if requested.
Extended Bio
Hetty Haxworth was born in Oxford in 1971. She graduated from Glasgow School of art in 1993, and has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad for the past 30 years. Her work has been shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottish Society of Artists and selected touring shows to Ohio, Australia, LA, Denmark and Brussels.
She now lives and works from a studio in Fettercairn, in rural Aberdeenshire.
The ever- changing colours and shapes of the Aberdeenshire landscape are an important source of inspiration. Ploughed fields provide a colourful patchwork and together with the rigid lines of fences and cattle barns, the landscape is turned into a geometric study that alters through the seasons. As well as this hard geometry, the softer shapes, inspired by reflections on Fasque lake are evident in her more recent work. In winter, when the lake freezes over, a small oval is kept from freezing by the birds who swim round and round in circles and this shifting shape has informed a new body of prints.
Haxworth works in monoprint, screenprint, painted relief on wood and watercolour. She finds that monoprint has a particular ephemeral quality, and she uses this process to capture the changing relationship between light and the terrain.
