Molly Lemon

Riverside MillPrint RoomExhibition

23 Dec

Written By Laura Wasley

A Year in Collage

Molly Lemon is a printmaker specialising in wood engraving. 

In 2025 she challenged herself with making a mini collage each day for a whole year, using a mix of wood engravings and monotypes plus sometimes the addition of pencils, pens and pastels, each representing that day.

This show is of the entire year in chronological order over 3 frames. See the whole year in one room and be the first to buy her collage calendar for 2027!

6 June - 25 July 2026

The Print Room

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About the exhibitor

Molly Lemon | Printmaking | Gloucestershire

Molly Lemon is a printmaker specialising in wood engraving. Using traditional hand tools Molly engraves into woodblocks. The block is inked up with a roller and printed on her miniature Albion Press.

Wood engravings are most commonly black and white but Molly loves working with colour and she tends to use the reduction technique achieve this. Reduction printing involves printing from a woodblock and then engraving that same block again before printing another colour on top of the first layer, you repeat this until you’ve added all the colours you need to create your image.

Molly enjoys working en plein air as she loves being surrounded by her subject matter. Being outside helps her to create work with a sense of freedom and immediacy that she does’t get when working in her studio.

Molly also creates collages using her discarded print proofs which she finds a very playful and satisfying part of her practice.

Concerned with conservation and the climate crisis Molly aims for her prints to reflect the beauty and vulnerability of the natural world. Molly donates a percentage from each sale to environmental charities, since 2019 she has donated over £15,000.

Website: mollylemon.com
Instagram: @mollylemonart