Good impressions
Apr 29, 2021
4 minutes
Words Vivienne Ayers and Rachel Crow
Photographs Polly Eltes
During a year when people have been unable to visit their favourite seaside or rural escapes, Amelia Bowman’s evocative collagraph prints, inspired by the coast and countryside, have served as a salve, feeding memories of travel. ‘In lockdown there were a lot of people buying my prints and postcards to remind them of holidays by the sea, and freedom – reminiscing about where they would visit. There has been a nostalgia for what we have lost,’ says the printmaker and pattern designer.
It is no wonder that people have been drawn to her joyful designs which, in her own words, ‘combine to create a
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