Congratulations to Fiona Fouhy ARE, a regular exhibitor at RBC, who won the Ironbridge Fine Arts Award at the recent Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. Fiona’s monumental, arresting print, ‘All that is more than me’ (monotype) was made using a Gunning Etching Press. Fiona was inspired by "moss-clad formations in the Forest of Dean”, and words from the compelling ‘Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants’ by botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer.
I live between the rock and the open sea, Monotype print, 1/1, 76 x 56 cms
“After hours in the penetrating rain, I am suddenly damp and chilled and the path back to the cabin is a temptation. I could so easily retreat to tea and dry clothes, but I cannot pull myself away. However alluring the thought of warmth, there is no substitute for standing in the rain to waken every sense—senses that are muted within four walls, where my attention would be on me instead of all that is more than me. I could not bear the loneliness of being dry in a wet world.”
Like Robin Wall Kimmerer's writing, Fiona’s work takes you there. She achieves exquisitely fine detail and layers of images, creating a three-dimensional effect which invites close scrutiny and immersion into the story.
Kelp Forest II, Monotype, 1/1, 8 x 57 cms
Prints are an affordable way to collect original works of art. Durer, Rembrandt, Goya, Picasso, and many others since, have explored the art form through traditional techniques including etching, wood engraving, woodcuts, lithography, and now linocuts.
Exhibitors include Neil Bousfield RE, Kit Boyd ARE, Merlyn Chesterman RE, Sasha Constable, Nick Jones, Flora McLachlan RE, Rod Nelson, Peter Randall-Page RA, Cameron Short and Frans Wesselman RE.
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