Thursday 25 September 2008

cod pieces and the like

Well I rode my bike down to Port Jackson Press in Collingwood this morning to see Against the Grain. What a gorgeous spring day it is here! Sun is shining, a light breeze, everything is flowering (sorry hayfever sufferers!). The world looks good today. And at the exhibition I fell in love with a cod piece by Rhyll Plant - the gorgeous wood engraving above. The digital image here does not do this print justice I swear!

And I also really liked Georgia Thorpe's sensual tableau III, a woodcut and intaglio print. The exhibition finishes this Sunday so hurry down there.

I'm going outside now to catch some more of that wonderful vitamin d.

6 comments:

  1. What a wonderful way to spend the day. Thanks for sharing those beautiful works.

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  2. MIZU: Thanks for sharing this piece. I like the layering, and the simplicity, both. We have a local artist named Elsie Sims, who came to California, after Colorado and Washington. It was the migrant workers who caught her eye, and become some of her best work.

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  3. Please add the "Follow" button, so we can...

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  4. Teri - thanks for your comments. If you click on the words 'cod piece' you can follow it to the exhibition website to find out more info about the artist.

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  5. I am thinking all things printmaking after a little time on a press last weekend and some time sorting out "shed" methods for etching. All good, except I still have no press and am not about to spend a fortune on one. I think I'll just have to prepare plates and book time in for the one and only press that I know I may, read may, have access to. Sigh. This work - wow. Makes your heart sing to see work like that.

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