LINO PRINTS

Once her children had grown up and particularly once they had left home in the early 1970s, Hilary focused her creative energies on making lino prints.

Many of these prints were inspired by sketches from holidays in Italy, Majorca, Greece and France, and of the landscapes of Kent and East Sussex, including her own garden, often with a family cat in view. She submitted her work for local exhibitions and made some sales but made no attempt to gain wider recognition.

Her technique involved cutting away at the lino for each application of coloured ink. As well as being a fiendishly difficult process to master, involving careful planning ahead of how each layer will add to the final effect. it sadly means that although we have many of Hilary's finished blocks, we are unable to recreate the prints as she made them.