Peace and Tranquillity
Artist: Elizabeth Bessant
- Size: 15.4 x 11.4 x 0.1 inches (39 x 29 x 0.2 cm)
- torn paper from 1960's magazines with paint pens
- One-Off / Ready to Send
- Frame Required
About the artwork
My latest collages use cut and tear to paint ‘Landscapes from the Imagination’. This technique creates a hybrid art form that builds images by remixing, overlaying and re-contextualising fragments of daily life that appear in print media. Nothing is what it seems. I use 1960’s women’s magazines as my source material as these are from the era that saw colour first introduced in periodicals and magazines. The paper is uncoated, and the print quality poor by today’s standards, making it easy to tear and creating soft deckled edges. It also takes in ink and paint so the images can be worked over and highlighted with drawn marks. The
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Elizabeth Bessant
Elizabeth Bessant’s journey as a designer and print maker began in 1979 when she achieved her dream of going to art school. Although it was a happy time she also found herself in a constant battle against the established ideas of art in the early 1980s and pressures to explore gritty subjects that were fashionable at the time. The beauty of the world, of formal gardens, country houses and furnishings, patterns and flowers and most importantly the subtlety of colour were what called to her. When Elizabeth discovered silkscreen printing that achieved the pure clean colours she was striving for she knew she had discovered her medium. In 1982 she was vindicated when her silkscreen print "The Morning Room, Tredegar House" was accepted and ... (see more)
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