Etching
Media Dimensions: 75 x 66 cm
Image Dimensions: 62.5 x 50 cm
Edition of 33
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Desmond Healy is a painter and printmaker who lives and works in Woolwich, South East London. He studied fine art at Newcastle University and the Royal College of Art. His recent prints are developed from drawings made in London - On trains and in buses, cafes, hospitals, life rooms - notes made on the hoof of the people and places of the city that is his everyday experience. “The tired faces of travellers, lost in their thoughts at the end of the day - I could see them reading the bible or religious texts as the concrete and glass city passed by outside of the window. People dozing, dreaming of some other place as they descended into sleep. The unpredictable alchemy of Intaglio printmaking seemed to be a perfect medium to explore this relationship between inner and outer life.” The plates go through many states, hard ground, aquatint, burnishing, rebiting - all the time looking for that moment when the flow of form and a sense of tangible mass seem to coincide. These etchings are part of an ongoing project to attempt to evoke different moments in the life of the city. Figures from the life room, dimly remembered, were the inspiration for the “Something human” series - again, that metamorphosis through the process of etching - the image degrading through several states of the plate, becoming something else, something disconcerting but also strangely tender was what interested me.
Etching
Media Dimensions: 75 x 66 cm
Image Dimensions: 62.5 x 50 cm
Edition of 33
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork would be £48.00.
Desmond Healy is a painter and printmaker who lives and works in Woolwich, South East London. He studied fine art at Newcastle University and the Royal College of Art. His recent prints are developed from drawings made in London - On trains and in buses, cafes, hospitals, life rooms - notes made on the hoof of the people and places of the city that is his everyday experience. “The tired faces of travellers, lost in their thoughts at the end of the day - I could see them reading the bible or religious texts as the concrete and glass city passed by outside of the window. People dozing, dreaming of some other place as they descended into sleep. The unpredictable alchemy of Intaglio printmaking seemed to be a perfect medium to explore this relationship between inner and outer life.” The plates go through many states, hard ground, aquatint, burnishing, rebiting - all the time looking for that moment when the flow of form and a sense of tangible mass seem to coincide. These etchings are part of an ongoing project to attempt to evoke different moments in the life of the city. Figures from the life room, dimly remembered, were the inspiration for the “Something human” series - again, that metamorphosis through the process of etching - the image degrading through several states of the plate, becoming something else, something disconcerting but also strangely tender was what interested me.
