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Ursula

Pretsch

Disciplines: Printmaking

Materials: Acrylic, Etching, Monoprint, Paper, Relief Print, Screenprinting

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Ursula Pretsch is an Edinburgh based visual artist who, over the last year, has been adding painting to her creative practice of fine art printmaking. With no formal art education, learning from master printers during an internship at Edinburgh Printmakers in 2015 awoke a technical interest across all printmaking processes which has evolved from photographic imagery into a more painterly approach. Her residency at the Spitsbergen Artists Centre in 2024 prompted Ursula to concentrate on expressive mark making in her monotypes and to explore acrylics and mixed media techniques. Selected paintings were shown alongside her fine art prints in Ursula’s exhibition “Polar” at Marchmont Gallery in 2025. Ursula’s work explores the impact of human intervention on wildlife and our natural environment, depicting images of natural beauty side by side with man-made, industrial structures, thereby examining the sustainability of ‘modern’ life.

Previous Experience

EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT 2025 Find Your Joy by Louise Fletcher, 12 week arts course, online 2024 Artist residency at Spitsbergen Artists Center, Longyearbyen, Norway 2023 Screenprinting development, Edinburgh Printmakers, Scotland 2022 Aluminium plate etching and relief woodcut classes, Edinburgh Printmakers AWARDS 2025 Highly Commended – Our Shared World | Members exhibition, Edinburgh Printmakers EXHIBITIONS/DEMONSTRATIONS 2025 POLAR | Solo exhibition, Marchmont Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 2025 Our Shared World | Members exhibition, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, Scotland 2024 Hope/Dochas | Members exhibition, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, Scotland 2024 Print 24 | Group Exhibition, Detail Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 2023 Journey | Members exhibition, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, Scotland 2023 Printmakers Salon | Group exhbition, Edinburgh, Scotland (organiser) 2023 Columbian letterpress demonstration, Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum, Scotland 2023 Project Babel | International Printmaking Collaboration, Edinburgh/Jyväskylä, Finland 2022 Around the world | Exhibition with Petra Bunger, Dr Neil’s Garden, Edinburgh 2022 Kinship | Members exhibition, Edinburgh Printmakers,

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