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. 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.
Inks are the same pigments as in oil paints, but in a paste-like medium instead of linseed oil.
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. 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. Wilderness This is an oil painting on canvas, approx 1000x700mm.