Rebecca studied Fine Art at Oxford and Newcastle Universities before becoming a professional artist specialising in printmaking. She teaches printmaking to adults and children as well as exhibiting her work and undertaking commissions. She is co-founder of Horsley Printmakers -a studio devoted to the creation of original hand-made prints. The studio offers a range of courses and workshops in printmaking as well as supported sessions for students and artists.

"Over the years, I've tried many different approaches to image making but the theme has remained constant: natural form - whether that is the detail of veins on a leaf or the way a brush stroke conveys the movement of air. Sometimes I need to simplify what I see with a line drawing. At other times it is the detail I want to retain so I might use a photograph to record this quickly. Sometimes a verbal response is what is required to capture a moment so I'll make a few notes. I may even pick up small objects such as stones or grasses as potent reminders of the place. My focus is both on the wide vista and the small things that catch your eye on a walk - branches against the sky, coloured pebbles on a beach, the texture of rocks.

After a journey or walk, I'll gather together all the photographs, drawings, notes and objects and consider how they could be brought together. It can take a while to compose an image that is evocative of a particular place and time. I use the research quite directly, scanning sketchbook drawings and unifying them with photographs. This means I'm not limited to one view point or method so I can include many views and means of visual notation within a single image. Within the images there is a deliberate interplay between the cool, objective recording of the subject and a more expressive, subjective response to it. Some of my recent work includes man-made forms that have become integrated into the landscape. These landmarks can be useful to locate the image geographically and give a strong visual anchor.

'The main media I use are monoprinting and photo-etching. Photo-etching is a way of transferring an image directly to the surface of a sensitised metal plate using ultra-violet light. It can be a photograph but all kinds of images including drawing and text can be used. The plate has an intaglio (indented) surface that will hold printing ink in the same way as a traditional etching or engraving."