Leigh Knowles MeteerPrintmaker
website: knowlesstudio.com/ |
Artist Statement
Does the artist choose the media or the other way around? Beginning with drawing, lithography, etching and now linocut and monotype, there is something intoxicating about the varied print processes, indirect application of color, and a pas de deux of moves in the development of image. Printmaking has been my love since 1978.
For me, working in a series is beneficial. It allows me to invent in a parenthesis flexible and contained enough to dispense with questions of format, size, media, and application to make room for exploring an idea. In this case, clouds.
Expressive, freeing, voluminous, elevating, clouds allow for playful layering of hues, textures, values and, with a hint of the horizon, a place to be. Sky reflecting in water is a wonderful challenge and I have yet to grasp even the basics but am certainly on an adventure. Luminosity is an idea essential to these works. My goal is to create an experience that is like a place of worship.
If anyone can work, play, invent and make a living doing the thing they love – they are truly blessed.
Does the artist choose the media or the other way around? Beginning with drawing, lithography, etching and now linocut and monotype, there is something intoxicating about the varied print processes, indirect application of color, and a pas de deux of moves in the development of image. Printmaking has been my love since 1978.
For me, working in a series is beneficial. It allows me to invent in a parenthesis flexible and contained enough to dispense with questions of format, size, media, and application to make room for exploring an idea. In this case, clouds.
Expressive, freeing, voluminous, elevating, clouds allow for playful layering of hues, textures, values and, with a hint of the horizon, a place to be. Sky reflecting in water is a wonderful challenge and I have yet to grasp even the basics but am certainly on an adventure. Luminosity is an idea essential to these works. My goal is to create an experience that is like a place of worship.
If anyone can work, play, invent and make a living doing the thing they love – they are truly blessed.