Six colour silkscreen print inspired by a found photograph from a Parisian flea market and overheard conversation in Horniman park. This way she says back to the house, remember.
Communication between a Mother and her daughter, a fleeting moment but significant to me as I overhear it. Marks from laser cut lettering and distressed text with extraneous marks from a gel plate print.
Woman and child silkscreen print series. I accidentally placed one acetate over the other one creating a band. I loved the band! It brought to mind interference on an analog television, remember those when we used to have three channels and no remote control? The picture would start to slip upwards leaving a band across the screen and a adult would need to go and twiddle a knob at the back of the set to adjust the vertical hold.
Vertical hold also brings to mind the mother/daughter relationship, complex emotions, love, frustration, misunderstandings sometimes. The hold a mother has over her daughter and the daughter over the mother.
The images are experiments and work in progress. Some time was spent manipulating the photographs in Photoshop to get the right balance and then the images were saved as halftone bitmaps, at 45 degrees and 40 lines per inch.
Background layers, on the left charcoal on tru grain exposed on the light unit at 20 units, under exposed to capture the grey areas of the charcoal. On the right oil pastel on tru grain exposed at 22 units.
The original photographs.
Second screenprint in the series inspired by found objects and quotes from Alice through the Looking Glass.
She thought she would try the plan, this time, of walking in the opposite direction.
Alice through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Six colour screen print depicting the circuitous route from childhood to adulthood. I was fortunate enough to visit Paris again in March 2022 and go to the flea market where there is a fantastic stall selling black and white photographs. Really excited to find the little boy on the phone, I felt it was perfect for this print.
I had been investigating the relationship of found images relating to the specific photographs. I see the objects as talismans that guide us on our tricky journey.
During Sue Baker Kentons class Develop your voice, I began investigating Alice in Wonderland and how I could use quotes from the book in my prints. I felt particularly inspired after finding a blue rabbit in a charity shop.
This silkscreen print will become part of a triptych which is currently in progress. The prints are produced at Sonsoles print studio in Peckham.
Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Silkscreen prints based on dreams, escape, sunflowers. Created using layers of charcoal drawings, found images from flea markets and ebay, painted marks and sunflowers that my neighbours planted in the front garden. Printed using 90 and 120 thread screens at Sonsoles print studio in Peckham.
Seven colour silk screen print. Printed at Sonsoles in Peckham, still dreaming.
I had signed up to do the advanced class in printmaking with digital content at City Lit lead by course leader Rolina Blok.
Needing to find what theme I was going to work on I found inspiration in a photograph of my mother standing at the kitchen sink in the 1950’s.
It seems to be a quintessential image of a woman’s role in the 1950’s and sparked my imagination. How could I use this image of my mother in my work?
It’s already abstract, it appears I need to distance myself somehow to make my work.
I visited a flea market in Paris in December 2019. Somehow I’d found out there was a stall there selling old photographs. At first I’d felt uneasy using found images of unknown people but some friends who run a cafe and gallery down the road told me they often bought photographs like this from boot sales.
I bought some amazing images to use.
So many questions about these images, who are these people, how did their photographs end up in a flea market, didn’t their families want them anymore?
I’m fascinated by them, my choice of image seemed to be mostly of women.
I started to visit some car boot sales in London and found some gems. These images are taken from a photo album I found in Pimlico, they look like they come from the 1920’s.
