Katie Holland Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

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I am a multidisciplinary maker and printmaker creating a personal field record of the landscape. Influenced by old herbals and the graphic language of historical woodcuts, my work captures the wild things of liminal spaces. I merge foraged inspiration with disciplined craft to create leaf-printed leather journals, botanical relief prints, and sculptural accordion artist books.

My practice is an ongoing cycle of observation, gathering, and depiction. It is rooted in nature-literacy developed during a childhood of structured birdwatching and nature walks, a foundation that now informs my work as a multidisciplinary maker. I view my studio output as a personal field record, seeking to bind the ephemeral shapes of the natural world into tangible, lasting forms through printmaking and bookbinding.

My aesthetic is deeply informed by a lifelong fascination with old herbals and botanical handbooks. As a printmaker, I am heavily influenced by the bold, graphic language found in medieval, early modern, and Edwardian woodcuts. I utilize hand-carved blocks to document the distinctive forms of plants that colonize liminal spaces - hedges, woodland margins, and scrubland. My work ranges from minimalist relief studies of spring catkins to complex, saturated compositions that capture the untidy beauty of the natural world.

Tactility and hands-on making are at the core of my process. Whilst I am also a traditional bookbinder and painter, I use this foundation to explore the book and page as a sculptural narrative, experimenting with collage, multimedia, gelli printing and figurative art.

By combining the seeking of the forager with the disciplined craftsmanship of the printmaker and binder, I aim to create objects that invite the viewer to reconnect with the rich natural world that surrounds them, especially in urban environments. My work continues the centuries-old tradition of recording the wild things through the intersection of art and craft, particularly focusing on what is both beautiful and useful.