Mary says she loves the technical and craft challenges in producing Lino prints. She may lie awake at night thinking through the steps and colours needed, what to cut away from the lino and what to keep and how to get that red and that blue from the same sheet of lino but once it gets to cutting and printing, nerve racking though it may be, she finds it absorbing and satisfying. Lino printing has been her chief way of expressing her creativity for about 20 years now but, due to the labour intensive process, prints are produced slowly.
"There is always more to learn. When using the press in the open access printmakers studio in Inverness I am frequently astonished by the results others can get from a simple sheet of lino, ink and paper.
I find in difficult to make political points through my prints but hope that if you enjoy the landscape or wildlife portrayed then you will think it worth preserving and protecting them too."