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This screen print is a halftone photographic image of a birch tree surrounded by ferns in Ashton Court Estate in Bristol. I took the original photograph on a really bright sunny day in late Autumn. The leaves had fallen off most of the trees and the ground was orange and yellow. The gold pigment of the screen printing ink captures the day beautifully. I used pigment powder which I mixed up myself to get the rich copper-gold autumnal shade just right. It changes depending on how the light catches it.
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 her 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.
