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Prints
and Paintings.
A gallery for my paintings and silkscreen prints.
Silkscreen printmaking is a process where a series of pictures
are made by hand printing individual colours to sheets of
paper through a stencil, adding layers of colours until the
image is resolved.
For me it's like a slow-motion style of painting, lacking
the 'autographic' nature of painting directly to canvas, but
it allows me to concentrate on contours and linear composition.
Another thing I like about the silkscreen process is how it's
well suited to experimentation with a limited pallette of
colours.
It's still called silkscreen, although the screens are now
all polyester, but I still use silk for tusche-glue, blockout
and some other hand-work techniques. I cut paper with a scalpel
to make most of my stencils, altering them with glue blockout,
painted onto the screens between colour printing sessions.
Photostencils are made by photographing drawings etc, onto
high-contrast film and then collaging the lith film scraps
on sheets of acetate with hand painted films also, then exposing
them to a screen coated with a light-sensitive glue.
Inks
are the same pigments as in oil paints, but in a paste-like
medium instead of linseed oil.
Quentin Roper.
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Sisters
This is a painting in oils, on canvas, approx one metre square.
It is of two figures looking out to sea somewhere on the Paparoa
coastline.
It could be of my mother and her sister; an ancient memory of
mine caught - of looking through photos from their youth on
the West Coast, or it could be of my two daughters when grown up
or , it could be all of them at the same time..
(that's what I like about painting; your subconcious reveals
to you such interesting things...)
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Kumara
Set in West Coast rainforest,
this is a silkscreen print on rag paper, approx 640x450mm.
Most of the stencils are cut paper, with a photostencil for
the texture and hand drawn elements repeatedly blocked-out and
overprinted with inks.
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Wilderness
This is an oil painting on canvas, approx 1000x700mm.
It is of a rimu forest.
Painted winter, 2000.
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This is a triptych (set of three prints) which depicts
a Beech Forest.
The individual prints are silkscreened by hand, approximately
A4 size each. I like to use metallic silver, as a plus/minus
colour which goes light or dark depending on the viewing angle.
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Central
Plateau
This is a silkscreen print.
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