Assignment 5 Personal Project, chine colle and artist statement

This printmaking course has taught me so many new methods and skills which I can take forward into my future. Monoprinting, relief and collagraph printing, and now chine colle. I had a conversation with my tutor before undertaking the chine colle project and we both agreed that it would be a missed opportunity if I…

Project 13 personal investigation combining printmaking with chine colle

Chine colle is a process where thin paper is added to the printing process while the print is made. An inked printing block is printed over the printing paper and the collaged chine colle paper. Chine-collé roughly translates from French as “chine”= tissue, and “collé” = glue or paste. The word chine is used because the…

Assignment 4 – Collagraph prints in response to abstraction

I really loved making collagraph blocks and prints, both because I love the freedom of it and also because I love abstract art in all of its manifestations. In fact, in the lockdowns of 2020 I created two at-home exhibitions of my abstract art. One from July 2020 was entitled “Disability” where I explored my…

Project 12 Developing Collagraph prints

Another chance to make a collagraph! How fun. I started off laying down the materials on my board before sticking them down. I rearranged the objects several times before committing and glueing: Next, I was keen to use some carborundum grit, to add some texture. This was not an easy task and I was not…

Project 11 Making a test collagraph block

As soon as I realised that I would have to collect a lot of little things for this project, I phoned my mum and asked if I could raid what we always call her “funny drawer” – a drawer of miscellaneous things that don’t really belong anywhere else (birthday candles, batteries. drawing pins, you get…

Research Point – Abstract Art

This project’s brief was to research into abstract art and three abstract artists. I chose Hilma af Klint, Paul Klee and Sam Gilliam. Hilma af Klint (1862 -1944) was a Swedish painter who produced radically abstract paintings unlike anything that had ever seen before, years before Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich. Linked to the spiritualist movement…

Assignment 3 Developing relief prints from the theme of life form with written task

This assignment has developed my experience in relief printmaking in response to the theme of life form through the use of more experimental forms of expression in the cutting process. Task 1 – Project 8 Reduction Method Linocutting Here are my three best prints from my reduction linoprint which show my best ability in this…

Project 9 Experimental mark making with lino

I found this project to be fun and inspiring. I was in a holiday home in Wales when I started it and I got the idea of what to do for the print (staying on the theme of life forms) when I saw some photos that my husband had taken for us on our hike…

Project 8 Reduction method linocutting

The thought of doing this project beforehand really made me nervous but actually, my cautious overthinking of what to do with every stage really held me in good stead and the results were pretty good. I started by thinking of initial ideas of what to print, going on the theme of life forms: I then…

Assignment 2 First relief prints

Task 1 (project 5) Linocuts This project was a good start to lino cutting and I loved exploring lots of different ways of cutting with various different tools. There was a fair amount of trail and error as the initial cuts were often not deep enough to show up (which I was aware of through…