Barbara Semler I first learnt about printmaking when I lived in Alice Springs where I attended Centralian College in the evenings learning a range of different styles of printmaking. Living in Alice Springs and the beauty of the Central Australian Desert inspired a number of my prints. 

When I moved to Bendigo I returned to studying printmaking again and have been working with collagraphs. I love to use found objects from the environment in the creation of my plates. I have been exploring the shapes and structures of landscapes and the light at different times of the day and night in the landscape. My work interprets both the large and small scale in the environment.
   
The environment for me is a spiritual place and so exploring the environment in some detail feels like part of my own spiritual journey. I have found a connection with the shapes of the environment in the printmaking I have done. I have grown to love the beauty in the Box Ironbark forest of Central Victoria   

Barbara can be contacted at semlerbarbara@gmail.com
My studio is at home:
5 Munro Crt Castlemaine 3450​

'From the heap' Collagraph 2018 35x50cm

'Within the box tree' Collagraph 2018 35x50cm

'Through the grasses' Collagraph 2017 12x12cm