Inspired by nature- acquired by Emerald Regional Gallery

Inspired by nature has been kindly acquired by the Emerald Regional gallery .
This piece held a lot of surprises for me! I was experimenting with wood varnish and spraying this onto the surface of my plate.

Experimentation is a journey into the unknown. A valley riddled with mistakes and hurdles. A place where you are left vulnerable, staring at your own destruction. Yet in all its darkness, everything seems to work out.

Below is a studio picture of me inking up "Inspired by Nature". I'm rubbing offset ink into the collage plate with a credit card. When I have coated the entire plate I polish the excess ink off with rags and telephone paper, leaving a film of ink on the surface and in the textures.

Then I stencil areas of the plate and roll transparent glazes over the image, a process referred to as viscosity printing. After the inking of the plate I print it onto paper with a printing press... creating a limited edition print.