Carborundum
Media Dimensions: 80 x 90 cm
Image Dimensions: 80 x 90 cm
Unique Work
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Here Mary Gillett sidesteps from the unique eloquence of her traditional landscape etchings into another intaglio process, the carborundum monoprint. The technique lends itself to immediacy and boldness and the results represent passing thoughts which almost serve as sketch book material with the potential to enrich the development of her etching ideas. This series emerged from a lingering childhood passion for flower painting reignited after seeing William Kentridge’s enormous still life drawings at the RA a few years ago. However, it bears little relationship to Mary’s delicate childhood observations. It is raw and intimate, and she likes the contrast with the long view typical of her landscape etchings. As the monoprints rolled off the press, she became aware that the ply and carborundum boards from which she took the impressions were not only integral to the prints’ histories, but had also become important as objects. Mary exhibits widely including at the Royal West of England Academy, the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, and the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. Her work is held in many private collections at home and abroad. She is founder of Tamar Print Workshop in Devon and trained at Arts University Plymouth, the University of the West of England and Brighton University.
Carborundum
Media Dimensions: 80 x 90 cm
Image Dimensions: 80 x 90 cm
Unique Work
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork would be £160.00.
Here Mary Gillett sidesteps from the unique eloquence of her traditional landscape etchings into another intaglio process, the carborundum monoprint. The technique lends itself to immediacy and boldness and the results represent passing thoughts which almost serve as sketch book material with the potential to enrich the development of her etching ideas. This series emerged from a lingering childhood passion for flower painting reignited after seeing William Kentridge’s enormous still life drawings at the RA a few years ago. However, it bears little relationship to Mary’s delicate childhood observations. It is raw and intimate, and she likes the contrast with the long view typical of her landscape etchings. As the monoprints rolled off the press, she became aware that the ply and carborundum boards from which she took the impressions were not only integral to the prints’ histories, but had also become important as objects. Mary exhibits widely including at the Royal West of England Academy, the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, and the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. Her work is held in many private collections at home and abroad. She is founder of Tamar Print Workshop in Devon and trained at Arts University Plymouth, the University of the West of England and Brighton University.
