Hello and welcome. I am Dehlia, aka The Merryweather Artist, printmaker/creative. I create linocut prints that have been sketched, designed, hand carved and hand printed in my dining room ‘studio’.

I have been interested in print and its' many forms for an age, but began to truly explore the medium of linoleum during the lockdowns of the pandemic and now I'm hooked!

I take my inspiration from my surroundings. Prints include my observations of the garden, the allotments, my location on the Cambridgeshire/Lincolnshire border or Yorkshire, where I spend half my time, and my collection of vessels and found objects. And each print has a story behind it.

I tend to begin a print journey with sketches and may use watercolour to enable me to work out colour layers. From here, I carve away at my linoleum using special tools. Test prints are taken and the plate adjusted if necessary. and when I'm completely happy I print using my press and burnish with a trusty wooden spoon!

Each print is inked and printed by hand, is unique and may differ slightly from the next. That’s the beauty of printmaking!