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A WOMAN’S WORK – interior/exterior exploration
The Brush Art Gallery, 256 Market St., Lowell, MA
Saturday January 26, opening reception 2-4, Artist talk March 3, 2pm.
“A Woman’s Work… Interior/Exterior Exploration” examines viewpoints of six accomplished women-artists: Stephanie Roberts-Camello, Betty Canick, Leslie Graff, Pamela Lawson, Michelle Lougee, and Carole Rabe. The title is also a play on the phrase “a woman’s work is never done.” Each artist is tied to the theme by interpreting nature or using architectural elements in their work.
Pamela Lawson and Michelle Lougee explore natural environments of sea creatures and worker bees. Leslie Graff and Carole Rabe capture domestic surroundings of the American home. Stephanie Roberts-Camello and Betty Canick incorporate both interior and exterior worlds.
TAKING FLIGHT SERIES
Exhibit at Lawrence Academy, Groton, MA
LANDSCAPES – three visions
The exhibit will run from October 18 until December 14 in the Conant Gallery of the Richardson-Mees Performing Arts Center, Lawrence Academy, Groton, MA
Encostic paintings by Sharon Wooding and oil paintings by Jill Pottle are also on exhibit
The gallery is open 8am until 5 pm Monday through Friday
About Monotypes
This technique is highly versatile. The materials, the tools available to apply them and the techniques to transfer to paper create a long list.
Water color, oil paints, blockprint, etching and litho inks are a few of the materials that can be used to paint a monotype. Brushes, rollers, dabbers, palette knives and cloth begin the list of potentials tools to apply and remove the paint from the plate. An etching press or a number of hand tools can be used to transfer the painting to paper.
The piece below, Full Moon Rising, was painted with oil etching inks applied to the plate with rollers, brushes and finger tips. The moon was created with a drop of paint thinner and a rag removing the lavendar in that spot to allow the white of the paper to be the moon. All of the white shapes in my work are where the paint is removed and the paper allowed to show.
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MONOTYPE – The Painterly Print
WHAT IS A MONOTYPE?
A monotype is a “one of a kind print”. A painting that is created in no more than a few hours on a flat Plexiglas or zinc plate, then transferred by press to paper. The image on the paper is the art.There are always questions to answer about monotypes; what is the process, why use the materials I use, why go through this multi-stepped, time constrained, risky process? The image reverses left to right and that can be confusing. There is a chance the ink will not transfer to the paper as intended; the dark colors may not be dense enough, the ink may slide, distorting a carefully painted shape. Why give up the control of painting an image directly on paper?
I use this technique because everything about this process is dynamic, breathing life into the image. There is an unlimited choice of tools to paint with; rollers, fingers, rags, brushes… each adding its own gestural quality. These tools can also be used to lift paint, creating subtle light or brilliant whites. The process is fluid, moving back and forth between application and removal of color adding to the liveliness of the image. The painting must be done quickly, as the workability of the inks will diminish after several hours. When the image is complete it will be transferred to paper using carefully adjusted pressure on an etching press. The plate is then wiped clean and the idea exists only on a single piece of paper.
The reasons for working in this technique also influence my choice of subject matter. The dynamic quality of things has great appeal to me. I’m interested in these images being alive, caught at a moment in a continuum where light, color and shape change.
These monotypes are from the summer of 2007.
All are painted on plexiglass plates with Charbonnel etching inks and printed with an etching press onto Rives BFK paper. The image can only be printed once (read more in the About Monotypes page). The images come from Nova Scotia.
The above monotype is one of the series TIDES AND RIVERS, the image below is from the RUNNING DOG, RISING MOON series. See these and the next group, RISING MOON, in the Pages. The plate size for all of these series is 6×16 inches.
All images are copyrighted
EARLIER MONOTYPES
These images come from old farm equipment, abandoned trucks and tractor motors. Painted in 1998-2005.
All images are copyrighted
P. C. Lawson Monotypes 