Fijke Middendorp

I use a practice of daily morning drawings and writings as a starting point for my work. I set a timer, take a pen and my sketchbook, and images and words start appearing on the page. I never know who or what is going to turn up. It is as close I have ever come to magic.

I make work on paper, using the printing press. I sometimes incorporate collagraph and lino print techniques but most of my works are monoprints created on the bed of the press. The printmaking process is another piece of magic; every print is a surprise and yet they often capture just what I wanted to say. At the moment my work is about love and loss and longing. And it is a celebration of being alive.

I also make small artist books and work in porcelain.