Hetty Haxworth (1971 – )

Biography: Oxford-born Hetty Haxworth, graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1993 and has exhibited in the UK and abroad for the past 25 years. Her work has been shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottish Society of Artists and selected touring shows to Ohio, Australia, LA, Denmark and Brussels. She now lives and works from a studio in rural Aberdeenshire. She says: I like the vibrancy of the oil-based ink, building up texture and often adjusting colours by overprinting extra tones to make the hues vibrate against each other. Usually, only at the end, when it is all printed, does the effect reveal itself. For me, the simplicity of the work comes from a direct feeling, a response to a moment.