Windows – with green chevron

Every day I walk a loop from my house, following the coastline, passing old fisherman’s cottages, a harbour and an outdoor sea pool. I love the movement of the sea against the straight lines of the harbour walls and, most of all, the contrast between the still water of the sea pool beside the choppy open sea.

This is part of a series of multi layered monoprints exploring the contrasts between free marks and gestural lines against flat, hard-edged planes of colour. I am playing around with spatial depth using tonal contrast, cool and warm colour blocks and gestural movement against flat stillness.

This printmaking technique involves rolling or painting printing ink onto sheets of PVC. The image is transferred onto paper by passing it through an etching press. This is repeated again and again to build up a rich surface. The quality of colour and texture is very important, with layer upon layer built up to give rich luscious colour, beside transparent barely-there tints. Each piece is completely individual, like a painting, rather than creating a multiple of the same image. I lay a block down, respond with another, and so on. The pieces are finished with more direct marks of pencils, pastels and the odd piece of collage.

Monoprint, with Caligo etching inks, watercolour pencil, pastel, and collage on Fabriano Rosaspina 220gsm
Unframed
27.5cm x 21cm
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