Printmaking

"125 CELEBRATE 125” - 125 NZ ARTISTS’ BOXED PRINT CELEBRATION
A print to Celebrate 125 years of women's suffrage in New Zealand.

125 Printmakers will have one print on a travelling exhibition, the other will be collated as a box set archived at the Auckland Museum. For More detail on my print, go to my blog.

works on Paper

A selected exhibition organised by
Print Council Aotearoa NZ
"PRINT MATTERS: Works on Paper"
ArtsPost Galleries : 120 Victoria Street, Hamilton15 June – 16 July 2018

"Wetlands Sanctuary"
Etching and monotype process.
Image size 210 x 185mm

The Small Print Exhibition 2018....2019

Prints that I have entered into the exhibition organised by Print Council Aotearoa NZ, that will travel round various Art Galleries throughout the year. The size had to be within 21 x 29 cm.

"THE JOURNEY"...

An installation accepted in the Print Council of Aotearoa Exhibition at Pataka Gallery 2017, called "Boundless."
The brief was to create interdisciplinary sculptures and installations "Out of the frame"

A meandering two - sided print represents a walk or a journey. On one side, the marks represent the outside world…expectations, influences and constraints of society and family; whilst the other side is the representation of a busy mind, full of thoughts and decisions, and has the words from the poem by Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken”, running through it.
Looking through the holes affords glimpses of other possibilities that represent the choices that ultimately make up ones life journey. A selection of choices has been made into another “journey” in the video that accompanies the main installation.
The meandering trails of circles represent discarded choices, connected by thread, to suggest that together they could have made up alternative journeys…thus “The Road Not Taken”.
The map of Victoria gives a sense of place, and the road markings reinforce the idea of a journey with different roads to take.

This is a short sample of the actual video.

Landscapes I - X

collaged Monotype prints

Landscape X Collage Hand printed Monotype papers 21 x 15 cm

Regeneration

Inspired By Eucalypt Forests

A monotype print /collage capturing the colors and patterns and regeneration seen in an Australian Eucalypt forest,
that had previously been razed by fire.

Monotype and Embossing
350 x 410mm
Mounted on paper Handmade from Flax

visible Layers...The Fern Series

This series was inspired by walks in our Native forests, observing layers of Brackens and Ferns that regenerate the forest floor.
I was exploring the interaction of the colours between the layers, giving the work a dimensional quality.
The prints are postcard size - 10 x 15 cm, as they were part of a collaborative print exhibition between New Zealand and Australian printmakers.

Horizons
An exploration Of above and Below

Horizons I
Monotype printing on Hosho paper, collaged.
Image size: 5 x 15 cm image
Paper size: 17 x 25 cm Fabriano

Horizons 2
Monotype printing on Hosho paper, collaged.
Image size: 5 x 15 cm image
Paper size: 17 x 25 cm Fabriano

as Far as the eye can see

The series was an attempt to provide a simultaneous perspective of the landscape....
On the surface, the view is as far as the eye can see, but there is also a hidden profile beneath the surface...
Monotype printed textures collaged onto spectacle lenses. The spectacle case is enclosed in a slipcase made from maps.

Estuary
Ebb and flow

Inspired by the estuary where the Manawatu River meets the Tasman Sea.
Monotype printing on Hosho paper that has been stitched.
Each image size: 10cm x 10cm.

Estuary
tidal Cycles

Inspired by the changes in the landscape with tidal changes.
Triptych of 3 collages made from monotype prints on Hosho paper, mounted on Fabriano Rosaspina paper.
Image size: 23.5cm x 13.5cm
Paper Size: 30 x 42 cm