Gallery of SPS member work » Frankie Partridge
I came to screen printing a long time ago, and loved it because of the elements of surprise and possibility that could take me to other places and excite me to new and further experimentation.
This was in Corsham at Bath Academy of Art where the famous Jack Sherriff ran his print studio. More recently, I began using the printmaking studio at Spike Island, even from its inception at Gas Ferry Road.
I have a love/hate relationship with the photographic medium. I am strangely drawn by its truth recording possibilities, when nature seems wilder than dreams: when water is defined by wiggly lines I could hardly have drawn, and when the whole spectrum of colour and shape exists under the blue. Also, when characters emerge from the click of a shutter, that seem like caricatures and yet they do exist.
I am still journeying, and I am interested in the spaciality of things, the effects of colour and texture…and the brush marks themselves. I want to fight my flat medium and I am beginning to emboss and layer paper to enhance and surprise the spatiality of colour. I want to relinquish my love affair with the photographic image, yet I still like to begin there, with something I have found.
www.frankiepartridge.co.uk
This was in Corsham at Bath Academy of Art where the famous Jack Sherriff ran his print studio. More recently, I began using the printmaking studio at Spike Island, even from its inception at Gas Ferry Road.
I have a love/hate relationship with the photographic medium. I am strangely drawn by its truth recording possibilities, when nature seems wilder than dreams: when water is defined by wiggly lines I could hardly have drawn, and when the whole spectrum of colour and shape exists under the blue. Also, when characters emerge from the click of a shutter, that seem like caricatures and yet they do exist.
I am still journeying, and I am interested in the spaciality of things, the effects of colour and texture…and the brush marks themselves. I want to fight my flat medium and I am beginning to emboss and layer paper to enhance and surprise the spatiality of colour. I want to relinquish my love affair with the photographic image, yet I still like to begin there, with something I have found.
www.frankiepartridge.co.uk
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