Millicent Straker (b. 1994, London, England) is an artist based in London whose practice focuses on drawing and a variety of printmaking techniques. Millicent graduated from Camberwell College of Art with a Masters in Fine Art Printmaking, and a winner of The Artichoke Print Workshop Prize 2020. Millicents work is intrinsically informed by colour, light, and especially the fragility of the natural world. My work has gentile references to big skies, wide coastlines and rapidly disappearing landscapes. My signature use of blending pigments together to create gradients invite the viewer into at times a tranquil landscape and at others an ethereal stillness. I try to utilise the beauty found within landscapes and place it against the stark realisation that they are all being slowly eroded. My work stems from sketches, notes and photographs made within the landscape, which are then revisited later in her studio in London to work from. This juxtaposition allows me to view the landscape and it’s surrounding in the context of memory, fading to a raw essence of emotion, strong and strange. Millicent’s work is held in private collections in the UK and internationally.