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A screen print artist based near Launceston, Katherine would describe her style as ‘pop art’ with a heart. She uses a mixture of photo sensitive emulsion and paper stencils with acrylic paints.
She draws her inspiration through photographic images. In a recent piece she used an image of ice skaters and set them over an old astrological chart. This picture represented love, fate and the fragility of life. She has also used images of carousels and trapeze artists to represent the ‘merry go round’ of love and relationships.
Colour is really important to her. She might find a piece of driftwood on the beach with a faded blue that she will keep and match up in a print.
Like the old Masters, Katherine mixes all her coIours herself and does not use them straight from the pot. She loves to play with contrasting colours, metallic golds and silvers mixed with other colours. This can highlight and lift elements of the picture. Enjoying experiment, she plays with techniques to produce different effects. Leaves, cotton thread and even cotton wool under the screens create unusual results.
Katherine’s studio is a shed in the garden. She made her screen print press from scrap wood and got some old metal screens second hand. This gives her work a ‘cottage art’ feel. As she does not have the equipment to produce large print runs, work can always vary slightly within the run. This allows her to play with and exaggerate the mis-registrations that occur. This has become a theme in her work, eschewing perfection.
‘Life isn’t perfect and we are all unique.’ She says. “This is my art and you don’t have to like it, I have done it because something inside me wants and needs to be whole again”.
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