Eleanor is interested in exploring ways in which feelings can be communicated through the tactile qualities of printmaking processes. For example, experiments in monoprinting and other techniques often involve looking at the rhythms and patterns evolving from a shape or mark and its connection to certain emotions experienced. She views printmaking as an on-going process of discovery, encompassing both surprises and technique. Whilst she enjoys discovering beauty in the materials used and engagement with the various techniques, she also loves the element of uncertainty and unknown possibility as the work evolves.
Eleanor Morris
Another source of inspiration is nature and the joy it gives is reflected in the gestural and sometimes colourful marks in some of her prints. She is interested in the continuous cycle of nature and how things that are discarded or destroyed can be elevated and made beautiful. These sentiments inform Eleanor’s printmaking and sometimes combine to reflect nature’s fragility and to embody nature’s cycle and our interdependency. Eleanor enjoys the process of recycling discarded work, deconstructing it and making it into small handmade books and folded paper sculptures. She finds exploring the concept of reinvention both experimental and playful. Eleanor is keeping an open mind to the processes and possibilities offered by the many printmaking techniques, as they provide a process of enquiry and discovery and are interchangeable, experimental and capable of producing surprising results.