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"In a Glasgow Garden" In homage to Charles Rennie Mackintosh 7" x 10" on fawn Stonehenge paper http://www.roycroft-printmaker.blogspot.com/
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I have just finished reading "The Quest for
Charles Rennie Mackintosh" by John Cairney. I found myself back in
late Victorian Glasgow, Scotland, later with the Vienna Secessionists. "Toshie"
(as he was known to his friends) created extraordinary art work from the time
that he was 16 years old. His wife, Margaret McDonald Mackintosh worked with him
to design revolutionary interiors and paintings even before their marriage in
1900.
I have been intrigued with the range of work that C.R.M. produced. His paintings
of wildflowers at Walberswick, UK around 1914 are what first drew me to his
work. But there is so much more. For more go to http://www.crmsociety.com/
. I decided that I needed to create a print that would say something about what
I was experiencing. I made a pencil sketch of three "Mackintosh Rose"
trees along with a pair of abstract birds. That was the start of this print.
Roycroft
Renaissance Master Artisan
Dorothy Markert
Rendered directly from nature - garden flowers,
field flowers and other evocative images are carefully drawn.
They
are often placed in Arts and Crafts pottery and enclosed within related
borders.
With brush and pen, the compositions are painted directly on the printing screens. Five, six or more screens may be prepared for the separate colors of each image. Rich, matte finish, saturated color is used to skillfully hand print each stencil onto 100% rag heavy, printing paper. The small editions are signed and numbered, ready for matting and framing.
The Copper Shop Gallery continues to have many of my
prints on display.
It is directly across Grove Street from the Roycroft
Inn in East Aurora, NY on the Roycroft Campus. The Copper Shop
Gallery is open
daily 10 am-5 pm.
I have just started a blog. As well as making prints, teaching printmaking has been my joy. I am writing the blog to record my discoveries and to tell anyone who is interested how I go about making screen prints. http://www.roycroft-printmaker.blogspot.com/