Flying Gull V Metallic Blue

This screen print illustrates a seagull in flight on a metallic blue sky with delicate halftone photographic clouds. It's a mini print from my series of screen prints over Bristol Harbour. There are several small singular flying gulls in this series.

Please note that this print is from a variable edition. This means the prints in the edition are all slightly different. In this case the prints are printed on dark metallic paper and there are variations between them. Because of this, there are very limited metallic prints available and not all are available online. The edition features dark metallic grey-silver, various shades of blue and various medium-dark shades of silver.

About the artist:

Fiona Hamilton is a Bristol based printmaker. Her work explores the ecological sublime and an appreciation of the majesty of nature. She uses detailed intaglio etching, drypoint, lithography and chine collé to draw the viewer into an ethereal landscape that has an impact on our sense of place in relation to the natural world. She uses primarily black and white with natural tones of chine collé and sometimes layers of lithographic texture to introduce warmth to the stark palette and to invoke a sublime emotional connection. She works from sketches, photographs, notes and memory to create my prints.

Fiona has an MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking from The University of the West of England (2023). Previously she studied Graphic Fine Art at Canterbury (2002) and established Soma Gallery in 2004.