Untitled, monotype/screenprint, 2010
Untitled, monotype/screenprint, 2010
Untitled, monotype/screenprint, 2010
Untitled, monotype/screenprint, 2010
Untitled, mixed media, 2010
Here are the prints I made recently. They have gone on display at The Forest in Selkirk where they will remain till the end of september. In these prints I am looking at the landscape in a more oblique fashion than in my usual painting, using geological maps and diagrams. To the untrained eye these diagrams can seem mysterious and impenetrable, a series of abstract marks and forms with little discernible relation to the landscape, whereas to the geologist of course they are as clear as a photograph and will illuminate their understanding of the landscape. I am not a geologist, obviously, but I have access to a friendly one who can interpret it all for me.
Approaching these diagrams and maps from an artistic point of view, I can appreciate the beauty of the lines and marks and appropriate these by incorporating them into an artwork. By removing them from their natural scientific context they become almost abstract compositional elements, yet they retain their underlying significance in terms of explaining the landscape. Broadly, this series looks at elements of British geology, with the diagrams themselves relating specifically to the Southern Uplands area. The fossils included are of Silurian origin, in keeping with specimens I discovered on excursions to the fossil beds of Kilbucho, near Broughton.
The Forest Bookstore can be found at 26 Market Place, Selkirk. Tel: 01750 22763
The prints were all created at the
Amber Arts print studio in Edinburgh
Email me