Holly Astle - Illustrator and Printmaker

Holly Astle’s beautifully textured illustrations reflect her love of nature, and her Cornish surroundings

Falmouth based illustrator Holly Astle creates delightfully expressive pieces using both traditional and digital mediums. Her work is greatly inspired by nature, and through her illustrations she captures the wild but delicate essence of the natural world.

Holly told us a bit about the inspiration and motivation behind her work;

“I have a deep love for all things nature, Cornwall and coastal. When I’m not drawing or printing I’ll be out on the coastal paths or in the sea, I’m constantly inspired by my surroundings, the seasons always bring a new flurry of inspiration for me to look at.

With my work I hope to reflect the world around me and hopefully help educate and spark interest in nature, I love learning about flora and fauna and I hope I can project that in everything I do.

I love to work through printing mediums: lino and screen print are my favourites, but I also love to work digitally, hopefully bringing those printy/organic textures into it well.”

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EnvironmentViridis Magazine7 August 2020Holly Astle