27/11/19
Another artist to add to my collection of inspiration.
This drypoint is from Liorah’s book, The Printmakers’ Bible, I’m really appreciating drypoint, I’m enjoying its immediacy and beautiful delicacy. I feel free when I’m doing drypoint. I’m currently building up my self-portraits, I’ve finally found my focus and stopped wringing my hands. I feel liberated. And I can see all around me art that reflects my own intentions, such as in this drypoint of a very mundane scene, but he unashamedly embraces the line for the everyday mundane scenes that make up the shape of our lives.
My lines have a purpose, an intent, to share a moment in time maybe, a feeling shared. I’m calling on the darker side of being human, where deeper more difficult feelings dwell. Having said that, I still want a lightness, which could be just in the way I mark make. But right now this is where I am, particularly with family events making life feel particularly fragile and a gift really, that we shouldn’t waste navel gazing. However, the dark emotions we all feel at times are a reality and I need to continue probing them for now.
Marigold Plunkett 