Thelma Sykes S.W.L.A
Printmaker Thelma Sykes enjoys birds in wild places, and the rhythm of the gouge on linoleum. Her experience as a field naturalist combines with a passion for print to create expressive images in linocut and woodcut. The repeating patterns within nature are a rich mine of inspiration and underpin the visual counterpoint in her compositions.

Thelma’s home is on the English/Welsh border, where the Dee Estuary is an important influence: not surprisingly, many of her linocuts feature wildfowl or wading birds.

Thelma has exhibited with the Printmakers Council, the Society of Wood Engravers and was represented in the exhibition of Western printmakers at Chong Qing, China as part of the Millennium International Printmaking Festival.
Many publications, especially those of the British Trust for Ornithology, contain ‘TKS’ illustrations whilst her linocuts appear on greetings cards for the RSPB and the Medici Society.
 

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Midwinter Morning

Knotwood

Frieze II

Flintwood and Furrow