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Overview
Iona Howard (born 1964, The Lizard, Cornwall) specialises in carborundum and drypoint prints that are handmade and hand printed in her studio near Cambridge.
Iona Howard’s prints use figuration and abstraction to portray the landscape of places she knows well; the sources come from working en plein air and expressing landscape filtered through memory.
Living on the Fen Edge near Cambridge; the initial focus of her work is the meeting point of land, horizon and sky, with the texture of the black soil rendered in the foreground, or the thready detail of reed and sedge picked out across the surface of a wetland.
On visits to her native West Cornwall she draws inspiration from the ancient semi natural landscape and dramatic coastline often starting from a walk or a boat trip with a sketchbook.
Howard’s limited edition prints are hand pulled on an etching press in her Cottenham studio. She uses traditional printmaking methods including carborundum, collagraph, drypoint and monoprint.