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May 19, 2020 in Artist in Residence at the University of Birmingham Winterbourne House and Gardens, drawing and printing, handmade, nature, print, sewing, surface pattern design, Textiles | Tags: afforded me the time, Artist-in-Residence at Winterbourne Gardens, Artist-in-Residence at Winterbourne House and Gardens, Birmingham, flattening imagery, foxfloves, from drawing to design, hand printing, I cut several stencils to overlay each other, layer up colours, pandemic changes to my behaviour as an artist, print, screen print, screen printer birmingham, screen printing, screenprinting, stop and assess work already done, the treadmill of making, Winterbourne Gardens, Winterbourne House and Garden, Winterbourne House and Garden residency | Leave a comment
Screen printing is one of my reasons for living. There is something delicious to me about flattening imagery into printable shapes. Add-in some effects which bring texture and then layer up colours over one another and it all becomes a joyful alchemy!
I’ve drawn many images while being Artist-in-Residence at Winterbourne Gardens theses past 18 months – too many to actually use to complete all the designs in my head- but Foxgloves came to full fruition.
On a very hot July day I sat in the cool shade drawing these humble but beautiful flowers (I also came home inspired to sow Foxglove seeds which are now planted up and days away from flowering here at home)
It occurred to me that a print technique I use which utilises talcum powder as a print resist, would make the perfect replication of the spattering pattern found in the interior of a Foxglove flower.
I cut several stencils to overlay each other so that I could build the plant images in 3 colours through 3 screen pulls of colour. Then at the last minute inspiration struck and I opted to mix the colours directly through the action of flooding the screen with ink, resulting in a swirl of colour.
I will often print and pile-up but this pandemic has afforded me the time to stop and assess work already done rather than continuing on the treadmill of making more. And so the Foxgloves have found a final resting place; a resting place my head will enjoy too.