"Both my printmaking and painting focus on a dialogue between detailed mark making
and abstract painterly passages.

Drypoints are intaglio printmaking which involves scratching lines into plastic sheets.
When ink is rubbed into these areas and put through a press using damp archival quality paper the ink is pulled onto the paper. My process includes this matrix as well as areas of ink left on/added to the scratched areas, or removed completely to create a unique drypoint monoprint. 

 My inspiration is the stark landscape and unique ecology of the Whakaraupo Banks
Peninsula region.

A significant part of my printmaking practice is concerned with reframing seemingly insignificant and often overlooked subjects, so it is part of the appeal of these works that the Banks Peninsula region occupied by Muehlenbeckia is classed as ‘grey scrub habitat’ and the flora is aesthetically insignificant. When viewed from a distance my work is often abstracted, but rewards closer viewing; just like the flora of Aotearoa New Zealand. When we see endemic flora at a distance the surface becomes dematerialised; illusions of texture shift with the viewer’s distance from the subject and the work."
- Vicki Mangan