“The Forest Series” by Catherine A Hiley
Take a journey with us through the forest with these new and beautifully crafted screenprints from Catherine Hiley. Lovingly printed by hand on heavy 250 gsm ‘Zerkall Crème’ paper.
Catherine tells us that … “Screenprinting was the ideal medium for this project: the speed of the process allowed me to make spontaneous decisions and individual choices for each print, and I loved combining the punchy graphic language of the dot-screen tree-shapes and the softer painterly illustrative style for the animals and flowers. The layering of the half-tone dot-screen tree shapes gives the impression of the layers of foliage, while remaining true to printmaking form and creating a curious moiré effect where overlapping.
Some of the birds and flowers were printed blending ink colours in a monoprinting process. Each print both demanded and allowed using the full creative range of screenprinting techniques. I was working in a much more immediate, spontaneous and creative manner than when printing editions of the same image, and I found the process stimulating and immensely satisfying.
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