Amber Butler 'Lose Yourself' Print Available

Artist: Amber Butler
Title: Lose Yourself
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: (A2) 42 x 59 cm
Edition: 100
Price: £45

 

Amber Butler is a British printmaker who turns everyday observations into quietly powerful screen printed statements. Based in Margate, she works from a small studio overlooking the tidal pool, collecting fragments of beach conversations, faded seaside signage and the pastel haze of sunset skies. These elements feed compositions that celebrate the ordinary while hinting at something stranger beneath.

Working primarily with water based inks, Butler builds layers of translucent colour on recycled cotton paper, allowing each pull to overlap and shift slightly off register. The result is a soft, dreamlike vibration where lilac bleeds into peach and seafoam green floats above rust orange, echoing the way memory blurs detail yet intensifies mood. Motifs recur: empty deckchairs, half read postcards, lone gulls perched on wind bent railings, all rendered with minimal line work that leaves space for the viewer to finish the story.

Her editions are small, rarely exceeding forty, and each sheet is hand titled and signed on the reverse, reinforcing the intimate nature of the work. Recent collections have sold through People of Print, while commissions have personalised wedding invitations, boutique hotel wallpapers and the interior of a converted ice-cream van now serving coffee along the promenade.

When she is not printing, Butler leads community workshops, teaching newcomers to mix colour, cut paper stencils and discover the pleasure of imperfect registration. Through every layer of ink she offers a gentle reminder: beauty is not always dramatic; sometimes it lives in the faded paint of a beach hut door or the echo of laughter carried on salt wind, waiting for someone to notice and press it gently into paper.