Lottie Hampson
Printmaker
ABOUT Lottie
Lottie Hampson is an artist based in London, predominantly working with photography. The images Lottie makes are a quiet meditation on her surroundings, slowly building a sense of place through observations of light and landscapes, interiors and objects, fragments of the people and creatures that inhabit these places. Lottie’s practice encompasses a variety of mediums, and the physical process of making is important to her. She uses primarily 35mm and medium format analogue cameras for their capacity to encourage slower, closer looking. Negatives are developed and scanned and printed, and for the work in this show, reproduced in a printmaking studio as etching plates. Each piece is then printed by hand, which continues the laborious and intimate sequence of slow processes, creating a sense of depth and turning each work into a unique artifact.
The resulting works are intimate studies of the plants, animals and views she is inspired by; ones that uncover the emotional and physical qualities of her personal experiences in the landscape.
