Sea of Rock

This monotype print explores a rock structure that can be seen in the seaside town of Watchet in West Somerset. the print is composed of collected rock pigments from West Beach and Fossil Beach, made into printing ink using an oil based print medium. The work responds to the philosophy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and was created during a residency at Contains Art as part of Somerset Art Works' Art Weeks 2016. I was awarded the Creative Pathways Bursary and received a studio space at Contains Art during the month of September 2016. The area inspired the making of this work and other monotype prints, exploring the surrounding landscape and using the material from the area to produced printing ink and create images following the ideas laid down by Coleridge and his philosophy in response to Romanticism and the making of art. This series of works followed the premise of forming works that had no specific fixed idea in place and instead was produced in immediate response to the material and how it determined the way in which images were formed, working in collaboration with the materials and the intervention of the artist's hand. Rock Pigments from Watchet Medium 52 x 52cm Ashed Limewood Frame Sept 2016