Monoprints

My brightly coloured Monoprints used prints of plants or weeds that had escaped from the garden into the bush. These exotic aliens can result in a fragmentation of habitat and a subsequent impact on biodiversity. This can occur on the fringes of suburbia or in fire ravaged National Parks. Yet these plants have a beauty as seen in the veins of the leaves, the twine of the stalk. The colourful prints are the plants printed with acrylic paint in multiple coatings creating an interesting layered image. And there lies the dichotomy: beauty or fragmentation of the environment.

I also like the printing of native bushes and plants. In those prints I layered with printed tissue and add stitch to highlight the image.

A Monoprint is defined as a single impression of an image made from a plate that can be washed and reused. These can be a polymer plastic or any washable substrate. In these prints I have used a Gell plate, which is a synthetic gelatin printing plate. The print is created by using acrylic paints which are usually rolled onto the plate. Images can be formed by creating marks or adding stencils. This is a simple and effective way of creating a print using your hands as a press. These prints can be covered with other print editions making the print a layered Monoprint. The characteristic feature of monoprinting is that no two prints are alike.