Author: Yasmeen

This September, I’m part of joint exhibition by a group of 15 members of Edinburgh Printmakers, held at the Leith Collective at Fort Kinnaird in Edinburgh

Here’s our official instagram, and here’s some information about the show.

Here’s my three prints which will be exhibited at this year’s WCPF.

Here’s two prints exhibited at WCPF in November 2022.

Project Babel is an international printmakers’ project creating a collaborative artwork based on one of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s paintings of the Tower of Babel. A group of members of Edinburgh Printmakers are taking part.

See more on the project’s instagram page.

Here’s my etching, and the section of the painting it’s based on.

My print Portobello Beach, shown at the Visual Arts Scotland NORTH show at Wasps in Inverness, December 2022.

Two prints sold at the EP members’ show, December 2022

Compendium, February 2018

In September 2016 I graduated from the MA in Illustration: Authorial Practice at Falmouth University. These are some images from my degree show, at which I showcased a series of prints made to illustrate my story collection, Vignettes. My show also featured copies of the book itself, hand-bound by me, and audio recordings I made of excerpts from some of my stories . This show formed part of our MA group show, which we collectively entitled Sophronia. Here’s some more images.

Illustrations from Vignettes – monotype prints

My artist’s statement

Illustrations from Vignettes – monotype prints

Illustrations from Vignettes – monotype prints

Illustratios from Vignettes – monotype print

Illustration from Vignettes – monotype print

Illustrations from Vignettes – monotype prints

Illustrations from Vignettes – monotype prints

Illustrations from Vignettes – monotype prints

Wall signage

Illustration from Vignettes – monotype print – and my artist’s statement

Illustrations from Vignettes – monotype prints

Illustrations from Vignettes – monotype prints

Illustrations from Vignettes – monotype prints

Illustrations from Vignettes – monotype prints

Illustrations from Vignettes – monotype prints

Illustrations from Vignettes – monotype prints

Illustrations from Vignettes – monotype prints

Illustrations from Vignettes – monotype prints

Copies of my book, Vignettes

Illustration from Vignettes – monotype print -and copies of the book

“The city of Sophronia is made up of two half-cities. In one there is a great roller coaster with its steep humps, the carousel with its chain spokes, the Ferris wheel of spinning cages, the death-ride with the crouching motorcyclists, the big top with the clump of trapezes hanging in the middle. The other half-city is of stone and marble and cement, with the bank, the factories, the palaces, the slaughterhouse, the school, and all the rest. One of the half-cities is permanent, the other is temporary, and when the period of its sojourn is over, they uproot it, dismantle it, and take it off, transplanting it to the vacant lots of another half-city. And so every year the day comes when the workmen remove the marble pediments, lower the stone walls, the cement pylons, take down the Ministry, the monument, the docks, the petroleum refinery, the hospital, load them on trailers, to follow from stand to stand their annual itinerary. Here remains the half-Sophronia of the shooting-galleries and the carousels, the shout suspended from the cart of the headlong roller coaster, and it begins to count the months, the days it must wait before the caravan returns and a complete life can begin once again.”

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities