Our exhibition Teathered will take place from 17th – 25th June in the Hanover Building at University of Central Lancashire (uclan)
I’m pleased withe how my work has turned out and grateful to all the team in Artlab for their help.
Sometimes when you see a different artists work it inspires you to have a go. Last night I attended an artist talk and one of the artists mentioned was Joan Mitchell. Having looked her up I felt inspired to have a go.
Most of my art starts with a photograph often taken whilst on a walk but in this case it started with the rotting of out garden fence. The fence had been in place for over 25 years that we (my husband and I )know about. With the outside edge facing the full force of the weather it finally gave up the ghost last summer. The side facing us still looked perfect but the side that faced the weather had been carved by the wind.
Keeping with the Anthropocene I’ve decided to think a out where it all began, I mean when mans actions started to make a difference to their surroundings. When man fenced land to grow a single crop, when they fenced land and claimed it as their resource. When land became property. When their not being a fence present gave man the right to claim it as his (colonisation).
I’m working with screen printing an image that I’ve made using a combination of digital photography and frottage manipulated on an ipad.
I am making print sandwiches using 4 layer separation and putting 2 prints on the back of the paper and 2 on the front, it is only when the paper is hung that you see the full picture. This is the Cyan layer , I like to mix it up, if I wanted photos I would just have printed some . I want the image to appear rather than be in your face!
I’ve decided to make wooden supports to hang my prints from, I can’t afford the oak my tutor wants me to use so I’ve got pine.
Ive burnt the wood with a blow torch then brushed it with a stiff brush. My back is complaining big time, funny I thought it would have been my shoulders!
First layer of my final piece, we have had problems with the screen because it is an old one, so two attempts to get the image on the screen . I am happy with the final image.
They probably need trimming a bit, I will leave them to dry then practice hanging them.
Photopolymer plate made made with a photo manipulated in procreate and made up from frottage and photographs.
As before I am inspired by mans effect on the planet, this time thinking about colonisation and land enclosure. Using wood from an old fence I frottaged images then laser cut them into wood to use for relief printing. Below are some of my practice prints, starting with free screen print in colour then a relief print over. The paper is newspaper.
Having fun learning new skills and techniques with pastels pure and simple with Graham Oliver as our tutor
I’ve decided it is finished, today I’ve taken pictures to be framed, let’s hope they know what they are doing, pastels have to be kept clear of the glass and the frame has to be sealed to reduce water damage.. fingers crossed.
The flowers are corn flower, Marigold and Corncockle. Brilliant names.
The seal on our kitchen window has broken and patterns are forming between the panes I’ve drawn a picture using some of them and cut them into lino. I’m relatively new to lino printing so doing 3 layers was interesting. I do like the final images though and it has excited me, so expect more.
Val Gedge art 