Eileen is a screenprinter inspired by the River Thames – its bridges, buildings and all the activity along its water. Living in Putney, she has ample opportunity to capture the vibrancy of the river and how people interact with it. “I attempt to achieve not so much a record of landscape, but patterns of activity and powerful architectural forms that draw life to the river, which the river in turn reflects back with every high tide,” she says. One of Eileen’s main influences is the Grosvenor School where design and colour are key features. For Eileen, screenprinting offers the opportunity to experiment with a variety of techniques and it is a medium which has many alternative ways of representing an image and offers the means to have colour at its most vibrant. Every screenprint she makes is a piece of art which presents a challenge and in creating a shape or a line she may alter its appearance in some dimension in order to amplify an area that has caught her imagination. Eileen studied at the Farnham School of Art and then the Byam Shaw School of Art. She has exhibited in the Barbican and various London galleries. She exhibits regularly with Richmond Printmakers, Southbank Printmakers and at the Oliver Contemporary gallery.