‘Urban/Rural Divide I’
500mm x 500mm
Printed on 330gsm G.F Smith Naturalis paper.
Edition of 18
Signed and dated by the artist.
These were a real keystone of my printmaking. I love to push the qualities of the screen print medium, and getting an organic/textural/non-graphic visual language out of a process that favours the hard-edged or process-colour-screened is territory I keep returning to. These pieces use a mixture of (very) subtle screen monoprint and multi-layered stochastic Turing textures to use screen printing like a sketching medium. To build on the strategic application of density in textures, I tried applying mismatched varnish textures, with the aim of selectively accentuating the texture of regions, through the controlled ‘curdling’ of the two varnishes.
What we’re left with are tightly controlled ephemeral sketches of the idea of urban and rural spaces. They’re will-o’-the-wisps, but built from very deliberate and considered elements.
