- Venue
- Fishing Quarter Gallery
- Starts
- Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Ends
- Saturday, April 19, 2025
- Address
- Kings Road Arches
- Location
- East England
- Organiser
- Neil Pavey
Printing has been important to me through my creative work. Found images and photography, and even film has been a constant since graduating from St Martin’s in 1990 and before.
I have used collage, transfers, chemical layering and then learnt the basics of screen printing while teaching. This method then got used simply to transfer images onto the paintings, not as a repetitive process.
Understanding and developing the process has all been a bit organic.
I recently learnt more from Jane Sampson at Ink Spot Press and Louise Bristow at East Side Print, and my skills are still evolving.
These new pieces on paper have all been made using zero mechanical aids. No printing bed, a “Heath Robinson” exposure unit, a limited set of screens. All hand pulled, using water-based inks and paper of good quality. They are therefore not “pinpoint precise”! There will be variations, mistakes, occasional smudges, and so on.
They continue the ‘statements’ series, using a lower banner set of words to add a language-based prompt.
They mix print and drawing. Not really an edition as such, even though I limited the runs to 10.
They continue to explore layers, palimpsest ideas, revealing, concealing, luring, alluring, language, symbols and metaphors…. and obviously the relationships of all of that with colour and marks.
Screen printing is an inherently ‘graphical’ process. Graphical things communicate in a different way to the more abstract and expressive. The prints wanted to tread both paths.
