Hetty Haxworth was born in Oxford in 1971. She graduated from Glasgow School of art in 1993, and has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad for the past 30 years. Her work has been shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Scottish Academy, 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 Fettercairn, in rural Aberdeenshire.
The ever- changing colours and shapes of the Aberdeenshire landscape are an important source of inspiration to Haxworth. Her recent work is inspired by the reflections on a lake near her studio. In winter, her study of delicate ice formations informed many of the prints in this exhibition. The play of light on the surface of the water together with the reoccurring theme of the circular moon also plays an important role within the work.
Haxworth works in monoprint, screenprint and painted relief on wood. She finds that monoprint has a particular ephemeral quality, and she uses this process to capture the changing relationship between light and the terrain. The simplicity of the work comes from a direct feeling, a response to a moment in colour.