Lauren Drescher b.NYC 1962 currently resides in the Pyrenean mountains of Southwest France, London and Auckland, NZ. Her work employs different practices including drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation and artist books.Resulting from a lifetime of pan-cultural observations, her print work freely juxtaposes elements of natural history with a range of personal symbols, usually in order to suggest hidden connections. The techniques are often derived from studio-based practices, but adapted for travel so that prints can be made ‘out of the suitcase’.She returns frequently to themes of lost connection with nature and the opportunities to address these.With an enduring interest in natural history and antiquity, her works often feature imagery which evokes innate cultural cues and the symbolism of our collective unconscious.As a collector of ephemera, with an interest in the quotidian, Drescher incorporates century old papers dense with marks, dates, and long forgotten accounts into new works which are frequently palimpsest.Her evolving bestiary is informed by mythology and folklore. Employing this compendium of creatures, she explores the sentience of animals, metamorphosis and the complexity of our symbiosis. In this series of relief prints, the venus, icon of fertility/fecundity, ritual and rebirth is paired with an animal counterpart.