Hi! I’m Pippa, a painter and printmaker from Loughborough, currently studying Fine Art at Aberystwyth University. Creativity has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. As a child, I was always making things, from building cardboard binoculars at four years old to creating a life-size wire sculpture of a sheep during my GCSEs. Making art has always felt natural to me; it’s a space where I can experiment, reflect, and escape. I feel incredibly lucky and grateful that I’m able to continue pursuing something that has brought me so much comfort and excitement throughout my life.

My work is deeply rooted in family, memory, and personal connection. Much of my practice explores the relationships between family members and the emotional familiarity within those bonds. I primarily work through printmaking processes such as relief printing, lithography, and screen printing, often combining and layering imagery to create collaged portraits. By merging fragments of my family’s faces together, I create entirely new people, unfamiliar yet strangely recognisable. These figures sit somewhere between memory and imagination, carrying traces of identity, connection, and nostalgia.

Photography also plays an important role within my practice. I’m drawn to using personal photographs as references, whether they are old family snapshots or quiet images of spaces within my home. These photographs allow me to preserve fleeting moments and transform ordinary scenes into something more reflective and intimate. In my series Snapshot, for example, I photographed details of my bedroom to capture a specific moment in time, preserving the atmosphere, objects, and emotions connected to that space before they inevitably changed.

Through both printmaking and painting, I try to hold onto these personal moments and explore how memory shapes the way we see the people and places closest to us.