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Inspiration from Artists Week 82 : KATHLEEN BUCHANAN and SIMON PALMER

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Jenny Harris

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Kathleen Buchanan is an American collagraph printmaker.  She has had a lifelong interest in creating art, although was educated and employed as a biologist prior to becoming a full-time printmaker in 1999.  It was while completing her degree in wildlife biology at the University of Alaska that she decided to renew her efforts at studio art and printmaking in particular. She takes her inspiration from the area where she lives on the coast of Maine, and finds that collagraph printing, with all its intricacies and subtlety, is a fascinating medium to use to communicate her ideas. To create her prints she starts with a sturdy backing board to which she glues shapes cut from Bristol paper to delineate the major elements of her design.  She then paints over this with acrylic gel medium to add texture and detail and to prevent the paper becoming saturated with ink when printing.  Most of her images have multiple colours which requires separate plates to be made for each colour.  She uses an etching press to print her work on 100% cotton paper.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Superb images and the texture looks really good, thank you for the introduction to her work Jenny. 

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Lewis Cooper

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The various processes of making prints have always fascinating me, although I've never tried any.  Never heard of collagraphs.  Had a quick look on the net, sounds intriguing.  These are fine works, and I appreciate the skills involved.  For me, they lack the 'wow' factor of many of the works shown on this thread.  But that, of course, is an entirely personal opinion. 

Alan Bickley

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I love all forms of printmaking, irrespective of which process is employed! I’ve got two etching presses in my studio, which don’t get used enough! Collographs aren’t easy, I can’t do them! These are lovely examples, thanks Jenny!
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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These are all good (obviously) but of all of them, I find the bird portraits most appealing - the colours in the painting of gannets are just right for the wild, cold, salty atmosphere in which they thrive.  I've done no printing since leaving school around 55 years ago; don't have the space here - we made lino-cuts and printed from them: I'd probably slip now, and open an artery, if I took to the carving tools again; so maybe it's as well I don't have the room.

Jenny Harris

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Just bringing this one back up again - with a few photos of her work in progress.

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Lewis Cooper

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Fascinating.  It must be exciting/unnerving as you peel back each print.

Tessa Gwynne

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Superb and fascinating work. Here are some I like.

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Simon Palmer is considered to be one of the UK’s leading watercolour artists.  He draws inspiration from, and celebrates the beauty of, the Yorkshire Dales around Wensleydale where he has lived for over 40 years.  Since leaving school in 1977 he has always been an artist, never having held another job.  Known for his instinctive approach to watercolour he intricately captures shapes, patterns, sunlight and shadow.  His deep links to a specific place align him to a British landscape tradition which includes notable artists such as Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland and Eric Ravilious, and his watercolour techniques bear a distinct resemblance to the authentic style of that tradition. He walks close to his home every day, filling sketchbooks with quick pen and ink drawings of the surrounding landscape, then paints, sometimes somewhat surreal, scenes filled with subtleness and nostalgia.

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Tessa Gwynne

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I see some similarities to Nash and Ravillious, both of whom I like. There are some delightful little mysteries in some of his paintings which you don’t necessarily notice at first, the lady hovering over the bridge in the last one, not sure what that’s all about! Also the ladies in the first one above, amongst the trees. Intriguing and I do like his style: great shadows as in no 4. Thanks Jenny, another gem and very individual.

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Such an unusual style, yes, obvious similarities to the great Paul Nash and Ravillious, but certainly different enough in my mind…remarkable talent and understanding of composition! Thanks Jenny, another great example of how diverse painting is!
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Another 'wow' artist for me.  Such an individual style, in some of the paintings the hedgerows etc, have a texture similar to that of sponges.  But it works.  The occasional 'what's happening' inserts are also intriguing.  Blank road signs??  A ghostly figure hovering, and a suitcase falling/hovering (??)...love it.  Well done again Jenny.

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