I am definitely making a meal out of this writing business... it's only 4000 words and 10% of my final MA mark, but I obviously want to do the best I can! Plus, it's fascinating, and the research goes on and on. I can't imagine how I wrote my really long dissertation back in the day when I couldn't type and we didn't have the web. It doesn't seem possible.
Koichi Yamamoto is one of the artists I am writing about, in particular this print.
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| Koichi Yamamoto - Rakujo |
I think his work is incredible and he has been so generous in answering
my questions. Another artist which I have discovered along the way
with the help of my fellow students is
Susan Derges. Her work is so beautiful. She is best known for her pioneering technique of capturing the
continuous movement of water by immersing photographic paper directly
into rivers or shorelines. She often creates her work at night, working
with the light of the moon and a hand-held torch to expose images
directly onto light sensitive paper. (Purdy Hicks Gallery)
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| Susan Derges - River Taw - Photograms |
Meanwhile, I have been experimenting a great deal with soft ground etchings and chine colle, plus a two plate etching, soft ground and sugar lift aquatint.
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| Unfinished soft ground with tosa washi monoprint chine colle. |
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| Soft ground etching with tosa washi monoprint chine colle. |
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| Two plate soft ground etching with background sugarlift aquatint. |
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Thank you for sharing these beautiful and diverse techniques. I love the connection with nature in all of these.
Thank you Katherine. Maybe see you in the summer?
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