Deborah Vass

In my last post, I had made studies of these hedgerows plants and combined them into a preparatory drawing on the brink of its journey to be made into a linoprint. The transition from drawing to print proved to be quite a challenge, but one that I enjoyed enormously. If you haven’t tried it, linoprinting is the most absorbing and consuming activity. Hours can pass by as you carve out your design. It is such a pleasurable and compulsive process that I am always tempting to do

If there is one thing that defines this period for me it is the birdsong.  The air seemed full of their full throated joy: the Robin, the Bl

This Spring I became smitten with tulips and here I explain how I became beguiled by these elegant beauties.

Those of you who follow me on Instagram and Twitter will know that I am rather partial to moths. The hot, still summer days of the past few weeks has meant there has been an abundance of moths in my garden and each day I have been drawing my new discoveries. You can see the results on my sketchbook pages on my website. I am delighted that this article has appeared in the Summer edition of The Suffolk Argus, the magazine of the Butterfly Conservation Charity.http://www.suffolk

To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour. Winter is often a time when we are confined: we shrink from the cold and retreat indoors, watching the world of nature through our windows. As a long winter slips into a late spring, my usual venturing forth has been curtailed. For many weeks the scope of my world has been limited by a recurrent back problem and, while I won’t say I haven’t cursed