Jo Boddy Surrey, United Kingdom
I am a printmaker exploring our relationship with landscape and the ways we form emotional attachments to place. I work across multiple printmaking techniques, allowing processes to inform and expand one another, generating a diverse visual language. Alongside editioned prints, I create large-scale, site-responsive collaged 2D and 3D works that incorporate stitch as well as print.
I am a printmaker based on the Surrey/Berkshire border, exploring our relationship with landscape and the ways we form emotional attachments to place. My work considers not only how we experience landscape physically, but also the feelings, memories and connections the natural world evokes within us. These landscapes are not untouched wildernesses, but living records of human action and attitude over millennia, carrying visible and invisible layers of memory. My prints ask viewers to pause and consider the quiet power of place: how landscapes root us, hold traces of our collective past, and shape questions about how we might live in the future. Each print becomes both a reaction to a specific place and an invitation for viewers to reconnect with landscapes of their own experience. Central to my practice is a desire to encourage greater ecological awareness through attentiveness, memory and connection to our landscapes. The technical processes in printmaking require patience and practise, yet it is an art form offering rich possibilities for experimentation. I work across multiple printmaking techniques, allowing processes to inform and expand one another, generating a diverse visual language. My practice-led research approach means the making itself becomes part of the enquiry, where process, material and experience continually interact and evolve. Alongside editioned prints, I create large-scale, site-responsive collaged 2D and 3D works that incorporate stitch as well as print. These works explore alternative ways of responding to landscape while also reflecting on the very materials and processes used to create them.
