Using exclusively the drypoint technique, Master Engraver Kim Westcott transcribes the intimate surges of nature. She translates the abstract movements of the Australian landscape in all its diversity, whether it be the Central Desert, the southern coastline or the Great Dividing Range, a very steep rocky barrier close to where the artist has lived since 2001, in the state of Victoria.

Kim Westcott evides and scratches large-format copper plates, applying materials that she pulverises, pushing back the usual boundaries of printmaking. She often uses tools from the world of industry to create the ornaments and markings she obtains. She is open to the visual possibilities and lyrical dynamism of this method and exploits the edge cavities created by the lines and dots she carves into the copper. This instinctive way of working also applies to her direct printing inking techniques on the plates.