Fran Farrar is an artist printmaker exploring memory, ancestry and place through abstract copper etching, monotypes and painting. She uses a combination of traditional and exploratory printmaking methods to interpret intimate emotional concepts through abstracted imagery. Fran is interested in an historic continuum, diarizing her own memories in conjunction with those of the natural and built environment. Her intimate, short edition prints bring together environmental identity with familial connections through a repertoire of repeated symbols and images, and often refer to transporting, nostalgic recollections. She returns repeatedly to a vocabulary of specific mark making, adjusting and refining, to explore line, light and texture across experimental printmaking, painting and sketchbooks. Fran’s current etchings and associated explorations are part of an on-going practice theme considering genealogical placement, significant emotional memory points and an exploration of time.