Fast Ligt High Water
Description
Rosie is a keen beach go-er living on the Atlantic coast of North Devon, captivated by the shore line, the ever changing light, mood, and skies: a different every visi. Recenlty she developed a new media practice: oil on monotype prints - Rosie calls them ‘fake paintings’ F.P. reflecting their reception by the Royal Academy: printmaking as an Art wasn’t accepted until 1909, 140 years after the Summer Exhibition was established. Monotypes, ‘the painterly print’, championed by the likes of William Blake and Edgar Degas, are made by working into an inked smooth surface, one impression or pull can be made and a second ghost image sometimes successfully drawn from the plate. The drawn /scratched /wetted inked plate is printed on damp paper using an etching press. The compression of the fibres means oil paint can be added in thin glazes to add colour to the prints, like a primed surface. They are much faster than oil painting and wonderfully unpredictable - expressive and unique.Try it!
