At the Independent Art School we have run a successful print program over the last few years and within that we have worked with a broad group of artists employing a huge range of traditional and experimental print processes. We hope to further expand that over the following academic year and have though that a way to explain this may be to showcase the work of individual printmakers from time to time.
Recently a conversation arose about the good qualities of a recent print by Mary – who often attends our Sunday Print Club. It seemed useful then to show some of her range of images and draw some common threads together. Mary’s work is often informed by natural shapes like trees, foliage and birds. It also includes broader landscape themes using both relied and intaglio processes, which she uses fluently. She also uses some subtle chine colle- (that is laying in a coloured section of tissue paper into the press which binds to the main paper and forms layers of colour in pint) Her images combine subtlety with strength and graphic immediacy. Her clarity of thinking, decision making and documenting allow her to really come prepared to sessions and take full advantage of her making time.
Here included are her intaglio dry point images of landscape and collagraph gondolas at Venice with chine colle and her Heron with bamboo grass and recent winter tree with sheep using high quality lino.
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