Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Heritage Book Plates


A dear friend (and museum expert) recently gifted the studio 5 boxes of letterpress book plates that were from a small press that specialized in book publishing. These copper-faced plates are a combination of diagrams, book covers and halftone photo plates. I have been staring at them and trying to conjure up my own narrative for some of these images. Recently I began printing them with painterly swatches of colour to draw attention to the areas that intrigued me. While they produced beautiful images when printed onto handmade japanese tissues, I felt they needed another element to carry them further........ so I naturally fell into my default process of combining previously created print ephemera. The result is shown above - Yarn. I welcome any comments good, bad or indifferent!

New year .... New works


Its been a crazy fall with the Guilty Pleasures show at the Gladstone Hotel for the alternative art fair, UpART (see www.kitschstilllife.blogspot.com) But I am happy to say that the studio is a great place to make prints and I'm loving every minute I get to spend in it.



Ink in all it's glory!