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Inspiration from Artists Wk 71 : Jenny McCabe and Alan Owen
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Welcome to week 71 , goodness how time flys, it seems not long ago we were starting this series of threads . This weeks featuring artist are : Jenny MCCabe and Alan Owen. Jenny Harris will open the week with her introduction to Jenny McCade and on Wednesday Robert Jone will introduce us to the work of Alan Own
Two excellent artist whose work is of a very hight standard. Please do let us have any names to include in future weeks ,have a good week and enjoy the artwork.
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Jenny McCabe is an artist and printmaker with over 25 years experience of producing and exhibiting work. Based in the northwest of England she works from her own studio and also teaches printmaking around the country.
She works mainly with intaglio printmaking methods, preferring collagraph and metal (aluminium or copper) etchings. Her work always starts with a drawing and the technical challenge of turning a simple piece of metal or card into a piece of art. She prefers to cut out her metal plates and does this with a jewellery saw.
To make the etched marks the plate is coated with wax and lines are scratched into the wax, then the plate is immersed in a bath of ferric chloride many times to etch the lines and tones of the image. The colours are added at the inking stage and blended during the wiping of the plate. This is a slow process, each image taking time to print.
She also produces screen prints. Her current focus is on wildlife, mainly birds, and she aims to capture their movement and energy.
There is more information on her working methods, with photos, on her website.
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by Jenny Harris
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This is such fantastic work that I'm highly reluctant to relegate it down the page. I'll do my bit for Alan tomorrow, but maybe late in the day. I'd love to do this artist's sort of work, but - well, probably I couldn't do it anyway, but I don't have the room, facilities, etc. I'm not complaining - I did many other things with my life - but I wish I had a whopping gurt (Isle of Wight word) studio to play about in; as it is, I work in watercolour, acrylic, oil, pen and ink, charcoal/carbon and ink, ink on its own, gouache, graphite, occasional pastel, oil pastel (well: not often...), conté crayon, coloured pencil (also rarely - having seen young David Lustig's work, I'm not going to start boasting about my efforts with CP), and more. You can't do everything!
Especially since - we've got about 85 years if we're lucky: some make it much farther - a writer friend of mine made 105: but I think we may need to specialize a bit, unless we're planning to live as long as a giant tortoise: some artists manage to be brilliant with whatever they touch: I am profoundly NOT to be counted in their number.
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Alan Owen, born in the region of 90 years ago, is a ceaseless watercolourist. To say he paints every day is to minimize his work-rate -he’ll paint several pictures a day, he has taught others, he continues to teach through his YouTube and Patreon pages. He’s had an article published in Leisure Painter. He has a gallery of pictures on here – just type his name into the search box on the Gallery. He has a variety of styles, his hero being Edward Wesson.
By profession, he was a sign-writer – in the army, and beyond. That’s a real skill in itself, but none of its necessary limitations trouble his paintings, which sometimes he’ll start with a basic drawing in pencil – and sometimes he’ll go straight in with the paint, drawing on his extensive memories of all the places he’s visited over a long life. You can see an Alan Owen painting grow in front of your eyes – visit his YouTube and Patreon pages – sometimes he’ll sing, sometimes he’ll chunter, sometimes he’ll forget to say anything at all as he gets lost in what he’s doing. But singing or silent, there’s always something to learn from him.