Today I had arranged for two of my print students to talk to the BYU group about their use of the screenprint process. As BYU’s printmaking department do not use screenprint I wanted them to see how versatile a print method it is and have a go themselves.
Barbara Swan, 3rd year Fine Art, explained how she has produced a life size ‘army’ of figures taken from prints of her own body. She talked about her process it’s benefits of scale and reproduction and how she has been able to work on a large scale installation for her degree show.
Mary brought along her artists’ book ‘Beast’ to demonstrate how she has incorporated many different visual languages into her screenprinted imagery in a sequence of nine progressively coloured pages.
Her explanations for the process and the conceptual development of the piece were illustrated with all her support work from initial sketches to colour trials and models. She was asked many questions by the BYU group who seemed very impressed both by Mary’s delivery and by the quality of her final piece. Joe Ostraff was keen to impress on his students the support work accompanying the final book and how Mary had been able to communicate her process to them through her documentation.
Mary was understandably nervous of talking to so many people but she did a brilliant job of explaining the many steps she took to realise her project brief and was congratulated by the group afterwards.
