Sally McLaren is preoccupied by ‘The life that springs in landscape, the spirit of it, the growth and organisms of centuries, the effects of wind, rain, sun and the marks left by man from past to present.’ Mel Gooding’s words from 2016 about Sally’s paintings apply perfectly to these new prints, ‘The insistence on the evocation of the actual has given way to an insouciant light-touch mark-making of dash and line, paint scribble and feathery touch, near diaphanous mistiness and the most evocative adumbrations of field colour, tonal greens and brilliant yellows, the all-eye-embracing blueness of the sea as a boat pitches.’ These glorious expressions are created with the master printmaker Andrew Smith (who also works with Martyn Brewster and David Inshaw) using an ambitious combination of a drypoint plate, an aquatint plate and carborundum.