Artist Profile

PRINTMAKING AS PAINTING:THE ART OF THE HELIOGRAPH

AS WITH ALL TRULY CREATIVE ART practices, artists continually question the process, those workings by which the work is brought together into its final form. In printmaking and screen-printing, these influences are brought to them by other artists, art practices and advances in technology.

This questioning of processes produces various innovations, some of which become part of the mainstream, and some are lost in translation “in the flood of new technology or thinking”,

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