Description

I grew up in an artistic family near Brecon. My mum was an established landscape artist so I grew up painting and
drawing. I came to printmaking after working for years in building restoration and teaching specialist decorating.

My work tends to be figurative images in landscape and I often draw on myth and archetypes. I don’t do a lot of preparatory drawings as I find redrawing can take the life out of most things. Mostly I work out of my head; and I love the moment when you first separate the print from the plate because – until that moment – you don’t know exactly what will be revealed.

What captured my imagination in Dylan Thomas’ poem, The hunchback in the park was the way in which the hunchback creates a perfect woman against the backdrop of the park. In the first draft of the poem she actually comes alive and calls out to him. In my image I stand back from the hunchback and see him and his creation as elements in the landscape of which he is a part. I wanted to give the feel of life going on around him.

Bridget Stevens is Brecon- based. She has a BA in English & Modern languages. She previously worked as a specialist decorator and in building restoration working on the restoration of Windsor
Castle. She has experience in book illustrationand is a painter as well as a printmaker.