Artist Statement
I consider myself a multidisciplinary printer/printmaker, often overlapping processes to achieve my desired outcomes. Primarily a Letterpress Printer, my print work has always been strongly informed by traditional Scots and Gaelic language, with my surrounding landscape of Highland Perthshire’s majestical forests and lochs providing a continual muse.
My work often merges letterpress, cyanotype, photogravure and monoprint. Recent studies have been focused on forest floors and the local flora. Exploring themes of perception and our connection to the natural world through these printmaking processes, I am interested in the symbiotic bonds between art, nature and Scottish language. The intersections in between these areas can be enthralling.
Artist Bio
Highland Perthshire based artist Lyndsey Davidson is the founder of Letterpress Print Studio The Hunter Press. Following on from HND studies in Public Art at Edinburgh College, she worked in Graphic Design for a number of years before returning to further education in 2012 and obtaining a First Class Honours Degree in Design and Digital Art. It was then that she made the move from Digital Design to the tactile world of Letterpress Printing and set up her print studio.
More recently, following the raising of a young family and a studio move from town to countryside, Lyndsey’s creative practice has taken a dive into the world of alternative photographic processes, predominantly Cyanotype printing and Photogravure. Lyndsey has been exploring the crossovers of both Letterpress and alternative photographic processes, allowing herself the space to develop a more experimental approach within her work and a stronger connection to her surroundings.
Lyndsey is an advocate for heritage crafts and has recently began self directed studies in natural and botanical pigments and their potential within the world of traditional and modern printing.
