Beatrice Forshall was born in France; she spent her early years there and in Catalonia. She studied illustration at Falmouth College of Art, specialising in dry-point engraving in the last year of her degree, and has since exhibited regularly throughout the UK.

Her work has always drawn upon the natural world, and conservation. From 2017 to 2019 Beatrice was artist-in-residence with the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI). Her work is part of the permanent collection in CCI’s home, the David Attenborough Building.

Beatrice makes engravings using an intaglio press. The process is long: first drawing, then engraving, printing and colouring by hand. The material on which Beatrice engraves is fragile, so print runs are short, rarely more than twenty-five, and each final image varies slightly in colour and sometimes composition from the rest of the series, making it unique.

A percentage of the sales of Beatrice’s prints goes towards frontline conservation projects.