Sharon Baker

Sharon works with printmaking processes and uses familiar, everyday imagery exploring ideas around nostalgia, class and cultural heritage to question what people value in art and in life. She likes to focus on the ubiquitous and celebrates the banality of familiar objects and scenes. Curtains, windows, mirrors and reflections are reoccurring motifs.

These prints are from a series of visual meditations on net curtains hanging in a window. She has developed contrasting patterns and textures using a combination of linocuts and mono-printing. She has printed some on delicate Japanese gampi paper and used a chine collé technique to mount them onto a heavy weight paper for display in box frames.

Winner of the St Cuthberts Mill Award (2019)
Winner of the Quinta del Sordo Gallery Award (2024)