Mavina Baker 

t. 07974 705 072 | e. mavina@mavinabaker.com | insta. @mavinabaker 

 

We welcome printmaker Mavina Baker to the society: 

 

I am an artist printmaker with an experiential practice, developing ideas through the act of making itself. Working from my printshop on the Essex coast, my work is shaped by a desire to tell stories through the material qualities of the handmade. Each piece evolves from the last, creating an ongoing dialogue within my practice. 

 

Printmaking draws me in because of the way it slows everything down. Its rhythms; cutting, inking, and pressing, become a form of reflection. My work is never just about the image, but about exploring what it feels like to move through the world: the quiet, inward moments of being human, the sense of singularity even when surrounded by others. 

 

The hand-printed mark is at the heart of what I do, forming the thread that connects all my work. Birds appear as emblems of instinct and transience, often curlews, or gulls, or ringed plovers, fleeting lives glimpsed on the shifting edge of land and sea. Boats, too, recur: tethered or adrift, empty or laden, they are vessels of memory, passage, and solitary journeys across vast, unknowable spaces. 

 

I completed my MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking at the University of the West of England, Bristol, in 2011, where I explored a wide range of techniques before finding my preferred mediums in relief print, collage and stencil.