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Printmaking, Linocuts on Paper
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The female nude is a recurring figure in my linocuts. In this series, the figure looks away from the viewer and appears preoccupied with inner thought. This series draws attention to personal power and potential. She who seeks wisdom finds a home in her body. Experience settles in her bones. Strength, compassion, patience, and humility flow through her limbs, lengthen her spine and steady her gaze. As she discovers truth beyond pride, she moves towards it. She speaks to pain and lets it move her more fully into form. Her body is the path to wisdom. The nude throughout Art history has had many different associations, from eroticism to demonstrations of beauty and the sublime. For me the nude is instead a suggestion of our essential being. It represents us at our most open, vulnerable, and strong. It’s what’s left when we strip away all of the external stories and expectations that are placed upon us. It’s freedom. Prior to becoming an artist I spent my undergraduate years studying Art History in Rome. Later while living in London I began to make linocut prints and recalled the Greek and Etruscan black figure vases I so often encountered in Roman museums. These delicate depictions of gods and mythical creatures in black silhouette with elegant lines and patterns lent themselves so well to linocut. I began creating my own nudes in dark gray and blue silhouettes.
2020
Linocuts on Paper
17
11 W x 15.7 H x 0.1 D in
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No
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I am a London based printmaker and painter. My work speaks to the sensitive among us. Those who experience intensely, who are overcome by beauty, who are overwhelmed by the rush and loudness of our world, and who wish to linger more fully in the present. Our gift is knowing that the present moment holds all we need, and that by speeding through it we miss everything. We are the deep feelers and seers of the world. The more we learn to enter into this realm of quiet the more richness we are able to perceive. I express this sensitivity through the subject of the nude, more specifically my own nude body. Though I don’t see my images as self-portraits, but rather vessels for lived experience. My hope is that the viewer can sense themselves within the image. Each pose is chosen carefully to communicate something about the interior world of the figure, whether it be vulnerability, deep presence, strength, or something else entirely. What they have in common is the deep awareness of an inner state. I felt throughout my life that my sensitivity and my need to take things slowly were things to be overcome. Through my work I discovered that these were not my failings but rather the place from which I found a voice. Though often challenging, there is gold within this way of being. We learn to see ourselves, our environment, and others much more clearly. I’m drawn to works on paper for the softness that I often find in them. I originally fell in love with linocut during my studies in modern art. I was drawn to the restriction that is inherent within it. As an image is carved and layered using different blocks, the artist must be very deliberate about details, as anything extra could become much more technically complex. This naturally allows for pieces ruled by simple lines and forms. Linocut also sits at the border between art and craft, which offers intimacy to the image. Eight years into my artistic career I added gouache painting to my practice as a way to explore more detail while maintaining the minimalism and delicateness of my print-works. larger colour fields. At the same time my study of art history has come to influence my images. Observation of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints has informed the way I compose my figures, while the silhouettes of ancient Greek pottery have inspired the tendency to define my nudes using gentle contour against solid tone.
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