Meet the Maker
with Jess Davies
Saturday 6 December 2025, 11am - 2pm
FREE, drop-in
Venue: MAKE Southwest, Maker Showcase Gallery
Suitable for: All
Come and meet printmaker Jess Davies, who will be here to talk with visitors about her Dartmoor Hut Circle Series — a captivating body of work currently on display as part of her Maker Showcase.
Jess will be sharing insights into her creative process, with OS maps and her iPad on hand to illustrate how she develops her ideas and transforms them into finished prints.
A wonderful opportunity to chat with the artist, learn about her inspiration drawn from the Dartmoor landscape, and gain a deeper appreciation of her printmaking techniques.
For the last few years Jess has been making monoprint and linocut prints based on the ruins of Bronze Age homes found on Dartmoor. The prints bring together elements drawn from maps, satellite images, pattern, colours of Dartmoor, and echo something of 'walking the land of ancestors'. Jess has visited many of the settlements, and talked to Lee Bray, archaeologist with Dartmoor National Park, to both learn more about the ancient homes, and deepen a connection which is expressed in the work.