Kathryn Desforges is a UK-based artist working with print, drawing and collage to explore narrative and conceptual representations of place.

She is driven by her preoccupation with ordinary, overlooked and in-between places, making work as a direct, emotional response, or as a bringing-together of fragments, exploring dissonance, tension, harmony and balance. The physical act of making lies at the core of her practice, and print is an integral element:

“It is the physicality of printmaking which resonates with me. Idea, material, process and aesthetic become interwoven through experimentation, the importance of each constantly shifting. Process echoes idea, and moments are captured and physically set into the surface of metal, wood or stone through a conscious manipulation of the material – carving, scratching, sanding, layering - removing the image from its origin so that it becomes something new and other, allowing the viewer to interact with the work from their own position.”

Using a range of traditional print processes, such as etching, woodcut and lithography, both on their own or in combination, enables a unique visual language which she uses to explore different elements of this multi-faceted theme.

Kathryn exhibits regularly and has undertaken artist residencies at Intaglio Printmaker, UK, Mi-LAB, Japan, and a Post Graduate Fellowship at Leicester Print Workshop. She currently works from her studio in West Yorkshire and teaches printmaking at various UK venues.