Josephine Birch | Along the Verge, Tuscany, 2024
Monotype
Media Dimensions: 185 x 220 cm
Image Dimensions: 185 x 220 cm
Unique Work
Unframed only
By drawing alone Josephine experiences the natural world; with a sketchbook she satisfies the modern urge to share, to photograph, by becoming even closer to the subject, recording it physically so that it is no longer landscape but memory being written. By taking these sketches through print, memory and process allow for the imagination to run away, the method creates a sense of calm and meditation so that the experience is intuitive. Josephines strong understanding of print, through her career as lecturer, print technician and studio manager, gives her control over her method whilst allowing for spontaneity so that there is still room for discovery. The focus shifts between fragments of remembered moments and sketches. Light on the back of a shining beetle, fluorescent windows in tower blocks, a figure against the rising moon, changing weather, walking the dog. The every day beauty of the ordinary day, picked out and collaged together. Her monotypes are the first assemblages of ideas and “the most exciting moments”, working blindly. These monotypes in turn inspire Etchings and Lithographs. Josephine is Print Co-ordinator at Arts University Plymouth, is a Royal Drawing School Drawing Year Scholar and has 1st class MA and BA Illustration. She is recent recipient of the David Cantor Memorial Fund, Make South West for Lithography and Jerwood 1:1 funding for Printmaking.
Monotype
Media Dimensions: 185 x 220 cm
Image Dimensions: 185 x 220 cm
Unique Work
Unframed only
By drawing alone Josephine experiences the natural world; with a sketchbook she satisfies the modern urge to share, to photograph, by becoming even closer to the subject, recording it physically so that it is no longer landscape but memory being written. By taking these sketches through print, memory and process allow for the imagination to run away, the method creates a sense of calm and meditation so that the experience is intuitive. Josephines strong understanding of print, through her career as lecturer, print technician and studio manager, gives her control over her method whilst allowing for spontaneity so that there is still room for discovery. The focus shifts between fragments of remembered moments and sketches. Light on the back of a shining beetle, fluorescent windows in tower blocks, a figure against the rising moon, changing weather, walking the dog. The every day beauty of the ordinary day, picked out and collaged together. Her monotypes are the first assemblages of ideas and “the most exciting moments”, working blindly. These monotypes in turn inspire Etchings and Lithographs. Josephine is Print Co-ordinator at Arts University Plymouth, is a Royal Drawing School Drawing Year Scholar and has 1st class MA and BA Illustration. She is recent recipient of the David Cantor Memorial Fund, Make South West for Lithography and Jerwood 1:1 funding for Printmaking.
Monotype
Media Dimensions: 185 x 220 cm
Image Dimensions: 185 x 220 cm
Unique Work
Unframed only
By drawing alone Josephine experiences the natural world; with a sketchbook she satisfies the modern urge to share, to photograph, by becoming even closer to the subject, recording it physically so that it is no longer landscape but memory being written. By taking these sketches through print, memory and process allow for the imagination to run away, the method creates a sense of calm and meditation so that the experience is intuitive. Josephines strong understanding of print, through her career as lecturer, print technician and studio manager, gives her control over her method whilst allowing for spontaneity so that there is still room for discovery. The focus shifts between fragments of remembered moments and sketches. Light on the back of a shining beetle, fluorescent windows in tower blocks, a figure against the rising moon, changing weather, walking the dog. The every day beauty of the ordinary day, picked out and collaged together. Her monotypes are the first assemblages of ideas and “the most exciting moments”, working blindly. These monotypes in turn inspire Etchings and Lithographs. Josephine is Print Co-ordinator at Arts University Plymouth, is a Royal Drawing School Drawing Year Scholar and has 1st class MA and BA Illustration. She is recent recipient of the David Cantor Memorial Fund, Make South West for Lithography and Jerwood 1:1 funding for Printmaking.
