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Rebecca’s monotypes are unique hand-printed paintings. She rolls or dabs
oil-based inks onto a smooth plastic surface with no permanent marks or
indentations. The inks stay wet for a long time and can be manipulated in many
different ways. Rebecca likes to use cloths, cotton buds, sticks and pieces of
card to lift ink away. The ink is transferred onto damp paper through an
etching press. Some artists produce their monotypes all in one go but
Rebecca’s are built up in 4 layers with increasingly dark ink being applied.
She introduces textured areas by cutting and tearing textured papers and
fabrics, applying ink and printing them. Rebecca prefers to use a plastic
surface that is bigger than the paper. This means that the irregular “deckle”
edge of the hand-made paper forms part if the finished print. The trees are
the final layer. These are created using a different monotype technique: dark
ink is rolled onto the plastic in the area where the trees are planned then
the paper goes face down on top. The trees are drawn with a hard pencil or
biro on the back of the paper so that ink is picked up on the front giving a
soft, slightly fuzzy line.
“Monotype is a broader and more expressive medium than etching. I can explore
the same subject of rolling farmland populated by trees in a different way.
The monotypes tend to have more movement and less precise definition, they are
not planned out but composed freely during the process with only a rough
compositional idea. Since the colours are applied in layers there are powerful
interactions between colours especially in the foreground where the colour and
mark-making is at its most intense.”
Most of these monotypes
have sold but I'm always making new ones - some similar, some different.
Prices range from £350 - £550 framed. Image sizes range from 40 - 70 cm on the
longer side.
If you're interested in work like this please
email and I'll let you
know what's currently available.
Alternatively, call in at our studio - please phone ahead if making a
special trip 07717 256169
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