Once you have completed your prints and developed the theme in a variety of ways, write a supporting statement (about two A4 pages) describing your final work. Include comments on how the prints appear and any technical difficulties you encountered. Describe the reasons for your choice of method and technique and a few paragraphs about […]

The experimental printmaking phase had left me with lots of interesting prints and approaches to follow up, but I had not worked towards creating a coherent series of four prints around my subject. I realized this only when I looking through the prints to try and select four prints I could possibly present as project […]

The next phase consisted of combination prints, mostly based on monoprint and collagraph combination prints. I employed multilayer monoprinting, painted and textured monoprints, backdrawing, and Chine Collé. I used different types of paper and printed on dry and damp paper, by hand or with the press. Multicolour monoprints Two-layer painted monoprint and its ghost I […]

I started the printmaking with painted and masked monoprints from a perspex plate and proceeded to the collagraph plates. The prints were mostly monochrome and employed only a single technique because I wanted to have them as reference points for subsequent multicolour and combination prints. Monochrome monoprints Painted monoprint and its ghost Hand burnished on […]

  Sketchbook studies My intention was to try depicting my subject in a variety of media and from different angles. I wanted to see which aspect would capture my attention and interest the most. Apparently this was the visual rhythm of the 5 flowers and their leaves, and the simple but very elegant shapes. Drawing […]