Sometimes it’s good to shake things up a bit by working with some different formats and techniques. In recent months I ventured into some new art-making territory – hand-tinted drypoints, monoprints, and also – thanks to a workshop with Pia Larsen at Newcastle Printmaking Workshop – relief printing and collage.
The newly completed folding book ‘Thicket’ (2023, 30 x 95 cm, ink on paper) expresses reverence for a tangle of trees close to my home on Worimi land near Bulahdelah, N.S.W. It is a meditation on the patterns made by sunlight on trunk, branch and leaf.
The two Gore Cove Track (25 x 15 cm) works pictured below were completed in 2022. They are one-off hand-tinted drypoints. They both feature plants that have managed to grow in an old wall alongside a walking track on Gadigal land near Wollstonecraft on Sydney’s lower North Shore. Such places are precious and the result of concerted action by local communities, conservationists and land care enthusiasts.
Lovely works, Carol, the folding books are beautiful.
Thank you, Bronwyn!