Placing Place

This four-plate photopolymer etching was commissioned by the Warwick University Art Collection and made with master printmaker Simon Marsh. The first plate is printed in ochre, blue and green (a cove, a sky, a field). Abstracted forms come from the second plate which uses hexagonal templates for a patchwork quilt, started by my mother when she was eighteen. The templates are made from old Christmas cards and envelopes from her part time job at Dunlop. Plates three and four dance around a watery border, restlessly sprouting new growth. Gestures break out of the edges of previous plate lines, as they jump and fall into the open space that surrounds the image.