Linda Uhlemann

Biography

Linda Uhlemann lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. She graduated from NCAD majoring in Jewellery design and metals and worked as a designer and maker of contemporary jewellery supplying galleries and shops with her silver and gold jewellery. She returned to study at IADT and graduated with a BA Hons in Visual Arts Practice. She won the RDS prize for printmaking and was then awarded a scholarship to the Arts Students League of New York. She has exhibited in Dublin, New York and Spain and her work is in the collections of the Office of Public Works, The Department of Foreign Affairs, and Dun Laoghaire County Council.

Statement

My background as a contemporary jewellery maker has profoundly influenced my approach to printmaking. Over many years, my practice has evolved to embrace many of the same processes—working directly with materials through marking, scoring, layering, and texture to create surfaces rich in depth and detail. The landscape is my constant source of inspiration. Fields and trees, sky and water, rocky shorelines, winding paths, and quiet meadows provide both the imagery and the emotional thread that runs through my work. Rather than recording a particular place, I seek to capture its atmosphere, its rhythms, and the traces of time held within it. Each plate is worked by hand, textured, marked, and printed through successive layers of colour. This slow, intuitive process creates prints with depth, luminosity, and a tactile quality that reflects the complexity of the natural world. Increasingly, I find myself responding to a landscape in transition. Seasons are shifting, winters are warmer and wetter, familiar patterns of growth and flowering are changing. These transformations are often subtle, yet they alter the places we know and love. My prints are not intended as a record of environmental change, but as a quiet acknowledgement of it. Through printmaking, I express both my affection for the natural world and my concern for its fragility. I hope my work encourages viewers to pause, look more closely, and reconnect with the beauty, resilience, and vulnerability of the landscapes that surround us.