ABOUT
Ingrid Bell is a visual artist and art psychotherapist based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
She is an internationally exhibited artist whose main practice is rooted in printmaking.
Ingrid was invited to participate in the Scottish National Galleries video network on art and mental health and art and printmaking video series at Edinburgh printmakers.
She has received a number of awards including a two year Monbusho scholarship which took her to Japan to study traditional woodblock printmaking. She later received the John Purcell paper prize and was shortlisted for the Engramme printmaking exchange between Canada and Scotland. More recently she was awarded a Luminate bursary for a residency on Shetland and a Visual Arts and Craftmakers award from East Lothian council.
Ingrid continues to develop her individual art practice whilst concurrently maintaining a collaborative practice with a group of international artists.
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Some of these aspects can be seen throughout my art works in the form of the figure and the natural world. Flower motifs symbolize place of origin and are either stand alone images or imposed within the figure to represent embodied experience.
More recently I find my focus occupied by design, repetition of pattern and the textural qualities within printmaking. I’m looking forward to developing this trajectory and developing more sculptural qualities within my printmaking practice.
Photo by Agnes Tominey