Elaine Shemilt

Elaine Shemilt born 7 May 1954 is a British artist and researcher especially known as a fine art printmaker Her work does not take a conventional approach to the medium and ranges across a wide variety of media According to the art historian and theorist Alan Woods Her work initially focused on installation the various printmaking media were used in an attempt to continue and develop the installations by other means If the event is inevitably lost a new artwork is launched from it and as themes and subjects occur and reoccur their regeneration might usefully be imagined as located within an extended family of images