The Chelsea Pensioner (Original)

The Chelsea Pensioner (Original)

£800.00

Drypoint etching and monoprint

Plate size 30 x 19.9 cm, paper size 47 x 27.6 cm

This Chelsea pensioner was spied at the Queen mother's funeral, paying tribute amongst the crowds outside Westminster abbey. I took a photo which I took to my first ever printmaking class at Sheffield's Mappin Art Gallery around 2001. I made my first dry point etching, scratching into the soft aluminium plate, then cheating slightly by inking it up like a monoprint, leaving some ink on the surface rather than wiping it clean so that only ink in the etched grooves remained to be printed. This meant that of the few prints I made each was different, and is a classic tell that even though I love drawing, I love painting more...

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"This project began with my desire to make my work accessible to my friends and followers. I tend to work mostly on big commissions and large projects. It’s great to produce small scale, fun work about where I’ve been and my influences, and rediscover older work again.

I want to make collecting art accessible and open to everyone. As a northern girl nothing delights me more than a bargain, so every so often I release a collection of works, for a limited period, at a very sweet price point.