Title: Natural Forms I
Size: 58cm x 58cm
Medium: Lino Etching
Alison Pilkington
Artist Status:Purchase
About This Work
This series is concerned with landscape and natural forms and shapes; the way nature impacts on mankind and vice versa; how shapes and colours change when viewed closely through optical instruments or from afar as with weather maps from satellites.
The prints are made by etching lino blocks with caustic soda diluted with water and wall-paper paste. This creates deep cuts and grooves which take the inks and paint to produce excellent colour and shapes when the damp paper is pressed onto the linoplate.
Artist Background
Alison graduated in Fine Art from NCAD in 1990 and took an MA in Film
& Television Studies in 1994 at Dublin City University. Though eclectic
in her artistic work, Alison focuses her practice on painting and printmaking
though is involved in publishing; her forthcoming publication 'The
Fold' (co-edited with artist Cora Cummins) is dedicated
to visual art and culture. She lectures in Fine Art Printmaking at Dublin
Institute of Technology and also in Media and Films Studies at Marino
College, Dublin. Her recent exhibitions include Kevin Kavanagh Gallery,
Dublin, Belltable Gallery, Limerick and her work is in many private
and public art collections including The Office of Public Works, The
Bank of Ireland and University College Dublin. She is a member of the
prestigious Black Church Printmakers' Studio in Dublin's
Temple Bar district.
- Other Works by this Artist
- Natural Forms III
- Natural Forms IV