Alex Faulkner is a painter and printmaker who specialises in making monotypes, unique impressions, employing improvised tools and unconventional printing methods. Working on a modest scale with limited resources and without a dedicated studio space or a printing press, he has adapted and invented methods and materials to create a unique graphic style. He works mostly in monochrome, as in this landscape, inspired by the remote rural area in Somerset where he lives. As his 'plate' he uses a laminated kitchen cupboard door from the 1970s to print broad areas of the composition (the slightly grainy dimpled surface of the Formica results in a grainy uneven texture in the printing that can be darker or lighter depending on the degree of (hand) pressure applied). He uses a variety of tools including bits of cardboard, leather, sticks, and so on. In order to produce the painterly marks representing the grass or rushes in the foreground in this print, he used the wing of a dead bird to brush. This print is one of several in a panoramic format that present places that are an amalgamation of the real and the imaginary to evoke mysterious landscapes, often moonlit as in this example, which allude to issues around the environment, and particularly change and degradation. He is also influenced indirectly by Japanese woodblock prints (which he collects) and their manner of representing landscapes.