Faith Flower was born in 1942. She is now retired and lives in Wales.

She was not formally trained as an artist but as a natural scientist, having degrees in Biology/Geology and subsequently Psychology. She combined bringing up two children with teaching and worked latterly in personnel. However, she has always instinctively drawn and 'made things'. The word 'making' is integral to her work; it is something she has always done, from making large scale mobiles, smaller plaster and wood sculptures, woven tapestry wall hangings to a constant flow of paintings and painted/gilded cards for friends and family.

On retiring and moving to Wales Faith took many of the art modules offered by Aberystwyth University's Department of Lifelong Learning as well as a short course in waterless lithography at their School of Art. Since then she has done two 2-day courses in saline sulphate etching and collagraphy at the Handprint studio in York.

Her main medium is now printing and she is committed to exploring the possibilities particular to the use of aluminium; consequently much of her work is experimental. She etches aluminium using the saline sulphate method developed by Keith Howard, but she also carves into the etched printing plate with hand and machine tools to increase the depth of the surface. This in turn has led to the use of inks differing in viscosity. This method does not readily lend itself to the production of editions, rather to a small set of related unique prints. The plate can also act as a starting point for other images by forming a collagraph base, a base for a collage or as a relief surface offset for another image. Risk taking is inherent to this approach, but it brings with it a valued serendipity, often retrieving a work from the jaws of death. Making the plate, inking and printing it are as important to her as the finished result.

Her choice of subject matter equally is often a matter of chance - something that sets off a personal reaction - the effects of light, a photograph, old oriental artwork, a poem, a piece of music or some passing event. Her background continues to underpin much of her work but it is overlaid by a desire to pursue a more abstract intuitive approach.

Faith tends to sell her present work through exhibitions. She is a member of the Aberystwyth Printmakers. She is willing to accept commissions for prints.