The Wandering Series. est. May 2013 (and a Pizza Gallery in the making)

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...and one day I will be able to deliver it on the back of a vespa. I am developing a new venture, where various series of prints will be made as affordable art prints that can fit inside a pizza box. The idea is fun. the product so far a little serious...but like all things inside a pizza box, it should make for an interesting flavour.

This is a new adventure. Throughout 2013 I have been revisiting printmaking as a medium. I started with buying 11 copper plates cut in my favourite format: an introverted circle, a quiet space to bury deep into, to disappear into.

I started drawing. At the time I craved movement and a venture, the feeling of the wind rushing through the fibres of my cotton dress as I was flying along a highway, the feeling of movement a rush a sense of getting somewhere or going somewhere. Just moving, because my life, now that it is balanced an shared feels so static and my emotions so dissolved over many other facets of real life, other than my introspective thinking and making. So it was a kind of pretend movement, as I s.a.t. s.t.i.l.l. drawing slow intricate images of bikes and boats, on a surface that was an even s-l-o-w-e-r process to create. As I drew, the slow style and step by step preparation of the plates process, became a slow mediative, repetitious process, and the bicycle I was drawing as a get away vehicle became entangled with an old oak tree and the rider... whoever it was meant to be just never showed up. 

embrace it.

So my first series became itself,  A series on wandering - perhaps without the destination in mind, or the typical action scene you associate with adventure. Images of running away, often metaphoric. Some are journeys that carve spaces within, gravitating toward he centre, like a circle. Wrapping around itself, protecting itself, and then feeling safe and free in that space. The small, gentle little circle. A place I want to illustrate and share.

Printmaking is a sharing medium.

You can make many and give many away.

The project is still in the drawing room, many prints have been produced. The packaging considered. Now I am handcolouring (of course) and reworking images. Originally planned for launch in October 2013, It will now be ready for launch in 2014. The ideas keep evolving and the time keeps moving alongside it.

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First entry:

Red Art Shed is a design company that makes limited edition prints and art products based in Perth WA.

The Wandering Series

The first press range includes a series of intaglio etchings, made with copper plate, designed and scribed by hand, etched in acid and printed with a traditional roller press by Amanda Humphries.

The Wandering Series explores exploring, and becoming entangled in a lost world. Originally the pieces developed by looking at ideas in Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem: “My Bed is a Small Boat Lost at Sea”, (and my bedroom an infinite sea of dreams)… and then they drift on from there.