Flora McLachlan is based in West Wales, on the edge of a wild moor. Her practice encompasses printmaking and painting. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers and the Royal Cambrian Academy. Exhibition highlights include the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025, London Original Print Fair 2025 with Long & Ryle, and Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford. In February 2025 Flora won the Eirian Llwyd Memorial Award for Printmaking in Wales. She shows regularly at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair and won the Tagsmart Print Prize 2020 and in 2022 was shortlisted for the 2023 Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize. Flora graduated from Aberystwyth School of Art in 2022 with an MA in Fine Art and now lectures in Fine Art at Aberystwyth University. Her work is held in the collections of the British Museum, Ashmolean Museum, and Aberystwyth School of Art. 

Statement

Through a sensuous immersion in an enchanted imaginary landscape, Flora McLachlan’s work aims to express an inner world of myth and revelation. 

Flora cultivates a magical consciousness through her artistic practice. Her images are born in materiality, using impermanent and chaotic etching grounds to let chance in. The copper plate enters the mordant as into a witch’s cauldron: working like this, she is casting spells. She imaginatively reworks these marks to evoke her ambiguous, dreamlike stories. Each work is bound into a tentative and poetic personal mythology. Imagined myths and fragments of dream surface and tangle like seaweed in the tide.