At the age of 16, Bess moved to Japan to learn printmaking and since then, work with

Japanese woodcut Mokuhanga, Serigraphy, Intaglio and Linocut, Lithography and mixed

techniques culminating in prints for the home as well as large scale installations. Works are

held in collections Mark Rothko Foundation, MOG Museum of Modern Art Goa in India,

Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, Penang State

Art Gallery in Malaysia and the Library of Alexandria in Egypt.

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Collaborating with communities, scientists, public institutions such as the NHS and War

Veterans Creative printmaking becomes a tool for positive change. Bess shares a creative life

informed by a cultural and political context shaping stories of loss and resilience. A believer

in the democracy of beauty and its power to transform she feels imagination makes a new

world possible through print, with people and by play.