On Line Exhibition

“Seasons”

These prints are my selection from a recent Fibre Arts Take 2 course with Tara Axford At the end of each course, participants are encouraged to submit their artwork for an online (and print) presentation. These overlay prints are the ones I have selected to submit for publication. The one the left is a shadow version of the overprint on the right. I have layered multiple coloured prints of the same foliage (nandina major) onto rice paper - a new substrate for me to use in my textile adventures

Tara structured her course around styles of established artists with a variety of modules looking at their styles and then making decisions as to how we could reconstruct and redevelop those ideas into our own interpretations. I learnt about a number of artists I had not come across before.

The module I selected for exhibition was from the botanicals module with Janet Lawrence, an Australian artist, who created wonderful luminous prints. I haven’t quite managed to replicate that mastery.

Here is another print from that module which I really enjoyed. The silver fern is a national New Zealand symbol and I have one growing in my garden. These examples are printed on mulberry paper and copy paper which has been previously printed with lamp black ink on the gel plate. The are mounted in acrylic blocks.

One of the great things about these courses is you get to experiment with various substrates, processes, ways of mounting and material you may have been unaware of previously. In introduction to shrinky plastic was another new feature for me