Turning For Home - SOLD

By Wendy Rhodes
 
 
Etching
Limited edition print 2/10
Framed
Framed size:  H:90cm x W:63cm
 
Wendy works with a monochromatic palette in order to focus attention onto surfaces, structural elements and light. She is drawn to hidden-away rural locations where nature is taking back control of human interventions in the landscape. Her old cart tracks, like this one, and broken pathways convey a sense of ancient history and transformational weathering over time.
 
The qualities within the materials that she uses and their potential for mark making are important motivating factors. The sheer range and beauty of the marks she makes need to be seen in the gallery - you just can't appreciate them fully online. Her copper plate etchings enable her to exploit a rich visual language of texture, line and marks and are created using traditional intaglio methods. Most importantly, etching offers her the ability to build layers into her image making, representing an over-layering of time and weathering that is inherent to the places she depicts.
 
The etching plates are finished with a little aquatint for definition and atmospheric perspective. These artworks perfectly demonstrate how black and white work can excel at creating mood and contours in an intensely-observed micro landscape.
 
Wendy also draws with graphite, water soluble graphite and charcoal, and through these mediums she is able to thoroughly explore the possibilities of each image.